Lawrence Porter

Our very first Product Hunt launch... and we made it to #6 on OpenAI Day

We're still excited about it.

Of course, ranking high felt amazing. But looking back, that's not what we'll remember the most.

The biggest value came from you.

10 years as a 3D artist, never touched Xcode or written a line of code before this year. In February I opened Cursor and just started typing what I wanted to build.

7 months later, backend on Cloudflare Workers, iOS app in SwiftUI, multi-model AI routing (GPT, Claude, Gemini), all written and shipped through Cursor. Launched on the App Store, now live on Product Hunt today.

Biggest surprise for me: the hard part was never writing the code, Cursor handled most of that. The hard part was learning to think in systems, architecture, what breaks what, how to debug when something goes wrong three layers deep. That took actual time.

Curious how far others here have pushed it. Anyone shipped something with real backend complexity, not just a CRUD app or landing page?

As builders, we often focus on creating features, improving design, and fixing problems.

But before someone uses a product, there is another challenge:

Trust.

People need to understand: