Cursor Directory · directory of Cursor AI rules
Announce the launch on X to the developer following you built in public
~1M impressions on one post; instantly took off
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What they did
Posted Cursor Directory on X at release, plus several follow-up posts, to the developer following they had built by sharing everything they do in public, down to the open-source code. Kept sharing knowledge along the way.
What happened
One post got ~1M impressions; the site 'instantly took off'.
- Stage
- launch
This shipped together with other changes, so the result can't be credited to this alone.
“So I I I posted the the the Cursor Directory uh on on X, of course, at the initial uh release. I mean, we're building public on X. We share everything we do all the way to the code, right?”
“We posted a site on X and it instantly took off. I have never seen something like that before.”
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