Cursor Directory · directory of Cursor AI rules
Open-source the site and let users submit and upvote their own entries
Maintenance down to ~3 hours a month; 49K registered users
Workedcommunityproduct-virality
What they did
The project is open source and rules are contributed and merged via GitHub. Users can register, become community members, post their own rules and upvote others.
What happened
Maintenance takes about 3 hours per month; 49K registered users.
- Stage
- growth
“And of course, it's open source. All the rules are merged on in GitHub. So the maintenance cost is like 3 hours per month.”
“We enabled that you could register and create your own account uh and be a member of the of the community so you can post your own stuff. People can vote uh on interesting things.”
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