Cursor Directory · directory of Cursor AI rules
Launch within hours: hard-code the content and buy the obvious domain
Live in 3 hours; first clickable version in ~30 minutes
Workedfeature-developmentseo
What they did
Called his co-founder on landing; Viktor designed in Figma while Pontus started a Next.js project with a hard-coded JSON file of rules found online. Had a clickable version on Vercel in about half an hour, bought the exact-match domain cursor.directory, and finished the site in 3 hours, then iterated. Reused components and a design system from previous startups and stuck to a stack they already knew.
What happened
Site built in 3 hours and launched the same week.
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“I created a hard-coded uh JSON file with some rules that I found online. And in matter of like an half an hour, we had something up in Vercel uh ready to to click around on.”
“I bought the cursor.directory domain, uh which was a really, really good domain according to the site, of course.”
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