Cursor Directory · directory of Cursor AI rules
Copy the look of sites you love to make yours stand out from lookalikes
Host thinks the design drove sharing; no numbers
Unknownlanding-pageproduct-virality
What they did
Has a designer co-founder and a reusable design system from previous startups. Formula: keep it simple, find sites you love and 'steal with pride', learn their patterns and tone, follow designers on X, and pick a tonality you believe in, since AI-built sites all look the same.
What happened
Host believes the design is one reason the site kept getting shared.
- Stage
- Pre-launch (build)
“keep it simple, find something that you like, steal with pride, and and and find the patterns and the tonality of of the websites that you like”
“Because it's easy to create a website today, but all of them usually looks the same.”
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