Cursor (IDE) tried launching on HN 8 times unsuccessfully

goodmythical

Maybe launching your AI product on a wildly AI hostile forum is not the best of ideas.

OhSoHumble

It's just hard launching a project in general - especially a B2C app. Someone could write the best software imaginable and never get a single user. I've actually been turning it over in my head recently about whether or not it's possible to launch a software business without venture capital because without large amounts of ad expenditure or "growth hacking" I'm not sure how you would even go about getting a software business off the ground. Cursor is a good enough product to be purchased for 60 billion. It launching unsuccessfully 8 times kind of shows how hard it is to pitch an idea to consumers.

ozyschmozy

Not sure how this counts as "trying to launch cursor" 8 times when 4 of them seem to be just blog posts with not very descriptive titles and 2 are about some AI email companion, and of the remaining two, one seems to be a tweet

sliqqq

Worth 29 billion by the way. The impact of Cursor on the tech world is so huge it's hard to even calculate. Maybe hackernews is totally overrated as a "launch tool".