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Cursor

Product Pretty sure · market validated it
https://cursor.com

IDE that actually ships code instead of just talking about it—charges money, has paying users, and made the right bet on editor UX + API access before everyone else copied the formula.

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Cursor is a VSCode fork with Claude/GPT integration baked into the IDE surface. No novel ML research (science: low). The marketing is aggressive but the product exists and people pay for it (slop: moderate). Signal is high because: (1) real paying customer base, (2) actual code generation that integrates into a dev's existing workflow instead of requiring a separate tool, (3) faster iteration cycle than competitors. The bet was simple—don't make developers leave their editor—and it paid off. ...

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