basically instead of treating linkedin like a chore to minmax, you are genuinely trying to reach out to 1) people you are trying to hire, 2) buyers/decisionmakers who have the pain points you solve. linkedin is very good for that.
Th CEO is an attention seeking moron who used to spam HackerNews with job posts for his previous company (Skio) which got preferential treatment as a YC company. I wouldn’t pay any attention to this company.
Their original schtick was charging $10k to get on their waitlist, which clearly failed as now you can “get started for $0” per their website.
Wait - this is the same Denise Dresser that led led some uber-high-pressure Salesforce enterprise sales teams in 2010s? Something tells me you aren’t really sorry
I’m sorry but do people upvote things just because they’re Launch HN?
The demo is meaningless, I looked through the docs and it doesn’t tell me anything about what kind of use cases or user journeys this product enables.
I am so confused
We're actively exploring what people would want to do with tech like this right now. Docs should be much more specific on a few of those hopefully by tomorrow.
Right now, the idea is to let the user interact with a chat that simply allows you to chat with a model that can generate components and call developer-defined functions.
This could form a customer support "feature sink", allowing users to interact with features not provided on your website by generating them on-the-fly (think product comparisons etc). It could also be a complete replacement for frontends for internal tools, allowing devs to build fully-interactable apps with just their backend APIs.
Hope we're able to get to a place where this makes much sense more over the next couple days! Wanted to showcase what we're making.
My tinfoil hat theory is that Cursor deploys a lot of “guerilla marketing” with influencers on Twitter/LinkedIn etc. When I tried it, the product was not good (maybe on par with Copilot) but you have people on social media swearing by it.
Maybe it just works well for specific types of web development, but I came away thoroughly unimpressed and suspicious that some of the “word of mouth” stuff on them is actually funded by them.
> Maybe it just works well for specific types of web development, but I came away thoroughly unimpressed and suspicious that some of the “word of mouth” stuff on them is actually funded by them.
You can pretty easily disprove this theory by noting the number of extremely well-known, veteran software developers who claim that Cursor (or other kinds of LLM-based coding assistants) are working for them.
Very doubtful any one of them can be bought off, but certainly not all of them.
I tell everyone cursor is awesome because for my use cases cursor is awesome.
I've never thrown 1.5M LoC at it, but for smaller code bases (10k LoC) it is amazing at giving summaries and finding where in the code something is being done.
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