DreamLabs
DreamLabs
[Beyond Bolt]
Bolt gets a full-stack app running in your browser in an afternoon. We turn that into a codebase with real architecture, security, and tests, deployed on infrastructure you control.
Free migration audit[Why it stalls]
Bolt is an impressive piece of engineering. Running an entire Node toolchain inside the browser means you go from a prompt to a running full-stack app with no local setup at all, and the feedback loop is immediate. It writes conventional code, connects to Supabase, and hands you a ZIP or a GitHub repository whenever you want one. As a way to find out whether an idea is worth building, it is hard to beat.
The wall teams hit is usually economic before it is technical. Every iteration spends tokens, and as the app grows past what fits comfortably in the agent's context, later prompts get both more expensive and less reliable. You feel it as a specific, familiar frustration: fixing one thing breaks two others, and the cost of each repair climbs. That is not a bug in the tool so much as a limit of asking any model to hold an entire growing application in its head.
Underneath that, the generated code is optimized for running in the preview, not for running in production. Tests do not exist. Validation happens in the browser. Environment variables and keys get handled loosely. Dependencies are whatever the model reached for, unpinned and unaudited. Deployment goes through the platform's integration rather than an environment you configured, which is fine until you need staging, a rollback, or a compliance answer. The prototype proved the idea; it was never asked to be the product.
[How it works]
[01]
We take your repository or export and go through the running app beside it: what is genuinely implemented, what is stubbed, where secrets and validation currently live, what the dependency tree looks like, and how the data model holds up under real use. The security pass runs at the same time. You get a prioritized list of findings, a plan that separates what refactors cleanly from what is faster to rebuild, and a fixed scope.
[02]
Before features, the fundamentals: a proper build and dependency setup outside the browser runtime, environment configuration with secrets on the server, database schema hardened with constraints and versioned migrations, and authorization moved out of the client. This is also where anything urgent from the security review gets closed, so the risky things stop being risky early.
[03]
Senior engineers refactor the generated sprawl into shared, typed modules with consistent data access and clear boundaries, using AI to accelerate the mechanical work while the structural decisions stay human. Automated tests and CI/CD land alongside the refactor, which is the point at which iteration stops being a gamble: changes get verified by a pipeline instead of by prompting and hoping.
[04]
We deploy to hosting in your own accounts with staging and production environments, monitoring, and alerting, move your domain across, and preserve or redirect URLs. Then you get the repository, the infrastructure, and documentation an engineer can onboard from — with our team available as an ongoing fractional partner if you want one.
[Where you land]
You land where you already were, done properly: React with TypeScript — on Vite, or moved to Next.js when server rendering or SEO earns it — over a real backend, usually Postgres through Supabase or Neon, with pinned dependencies, a reproducible build, and CI/CD. Hosting runs on Vercel, Cloudflare, or your own cloud, with environments and rollback. If your product needs to reach the app stores, React Native or Flutter is the natural next step, with the web app serving as the specification.
The economics change as much as the engineering does. Iteration no longer costs tokens per attempt against an app the model cannot fully see; it costs an engineer's time against a codebase covered by tests. Features that used to break three other things stop doing that, because something other than your users is checking.
[Other platforms]
[Smaller engagements]
Migrating off FlutterFlow, Bubble, Webflow, or Airtable instead? See no-code migration →
[FAQs]
Because a downloadable archive and a maintainable application are different things. What you download is real code with no tests, loose dependency management, validation and secrets in the wrong places, and structure shaped by a series of prompts rather than by a design. The migration turns it into something a team can extend safely: hardened, typed, tested, and deployed through a pipeline you control.
Two things compound. The codebase grows past what the agent can hold in context, so each prompt is a local edit made without a picture of the whole system — which is exactly how fixing one thing breaks two. And because nothing is tested, the breakage surfaces later, in production, instead of immediately. That pattern does not resolve with better prompting; it resolves with architecture and a test suite.
No. Your Bolt deployment keeps running while we build and test alongside it against the same backend, so we can verify parity feature by feature before anything switches. Cutover is a final data sync if one is needed plus a DNS change — minutes, not days, and typically invisible to your users.
It maps cleanly onto a production React Native build. The screens and product decisions carry over, the backend stays, and what gets built is the part that was never there: proper navigation and state architecture, native permissions handled correctly, typed models, tests, and a real release pipeline for the App Store and Play Store. If the roadmap is heavily native, we will make the honest case for Flutter versus React Native during the audit.
Prototypes start at $6,000 and full MVPs at $15,000. About 6 weeks and around $20,000 all-in for most apps, against roughly $200,000 and 6 months for a traditional agency rebuild of the same product. The migration is faster than a from-scratch build because your Bolt app is a complete, running specification. If the audit finds the build is fundamentally sound and only needs hardening, a focused engagement costs meaningfully less.
[Interested?]