When Bolt released to Netlify's old failures, his biggest fear was to classify all the problems as "Netlify pumping". The official Bolt support documentation has actually clearly dismantled the most common pitfalls: one is that the release link itself fails, one is that the domain name is still occupied by the old project, and the other is that the authentication relationship between the GitHub account and the Bolt account is a fight.
Let's talk about the most direct judgment first. If you click Publish and an error is reported, but the project itself builds normally, it should be treated as a "release link issue" rather than an application code error. Bolt officials even gave a direct solution: first run build locally or in the project, then download the project, and manually go to Netlify to do manual deploy. If you can send it manually, it means that the code is most likely fine, but the part from Bolt to Netlify is stuck.
If the error report mentions "another project is already using this domain", the focus is not on re-publishing, but on whether the domain name is still on the previous Netlify project or another host. Many people have already deleted the old configuration in Bolt, but the domain name provider or the old hosting platform has not been cleaned, so the new project has not been able to catch up.
Another type of issue is related to GitHub bindings. The Bolt documentation also mentions that if you have logged in to different Bolt accounts with the same GitHub account, and then use this GitHub account for integration authentication, there may be conflicts. On the surface, it looks like Netlify can't be connected, but in fact, the account relationship is not straightened.
So the most stable order of investigation is:
1. First, check whether the project can be built normally.
2. If you can build, try to manually deploy to verify whether it is a Bolt release link issue.
3. If the custom domain name is errored, go back to the old hosting platform and unbind the domain name cleanly.
4. If the integration login is weird, check whether the GitHub account has been reused by multiple Bolt accounts.
Many people click Publish repeatedly in a hurry, only to trigger the same failure condition repeatedly. The really efficient approach is to classify the problem first. Code issues, domain name issues, and authentication issues are not a set of amendments at all.
So if Bolt can't send Netlify, don't blame Netlify first. Figuring out which layer you are stuck on first can usually quickly change from "repeated release failures" to "knowing who to look for and which step to change".
