Cursor (IDE) tried launching on HN 8 times unsuccessfully
twitter.comIt's just hard launching a project in general - especially a B2C app. Someone could write the best software imaginable and never get a single user.
I've actually been turning it over in my head recently about whether or not it's possible to launch a software business without venture capital because without large amounts of ad expenditure or "growth hacking" I'm not sure how you would even go about getting a software business off the ground.
Cursor is a good enough product to be purchased for 60 billion. It launching unsuccessfully 8 times kind of shows how hard it is to pitch an idea to consumers.
Worth 29 billion by the way. The impact of Cursor on the tech world is so huge it's hard to even calculate. Maybe hackernews is totally overrated as a "launch tool".
Not sure how this counts as "trying to launch cursor" 8 times when 4 of them seem to be just blog posts with not very descriptive titles and 2 are about some AI email companion, and of the remaining two, one seems to be a tweet
Maybe launching your AI product on a wildly AI hostile forum is not the best of ideas.
While sure, the comments can often be hostile to ai, warranted or not, AI stuff is consistently upvoted and makes it to the top ranks all the time. It not doing well can be as simple as posting it at the wrong time of the day.
That's fair. I often wonder at stuff I see languishing in /new because it looks to me exactly as if it belongs on the front page.