Oluwatoyin Olonibua grace

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2.5 years ago, I quit my job with no backup plan. Today, I'm making a living from Tern, the AI travel planner I built in my bedroom. Here's the raw, unfiltered story of how it happened:

Numbers, Because Product Hunt Loves Data

• 12,000+ trips planned

• Paying customers from 9 countries (started monetizing 2 months ago, still free for most users)

• Users from 120 countries

• 5/5 stars on Product Hunt (and 1 of the 20 products hunted by CEO @rajiv_ayyangar )

• $0 spent on marketing

• 14-hour days, 7 days/week in the beginning

• 400+ updates shipped

At @Bucket, we're always looking for products that can boost productivity and inspire us to build better software. We recently experimented with @Cursor to replace @Github Copilot.

Key takeaways

• Tab completion: Cursor includes a helpful tab completion feature, suggesting refactorings and improvements as you go huge time saver!

• Chat: the chat/composer is better than Copilot as it can modify across files in the codebase. However, we still needed to correct the code most of the time :/

• Full context: Cursor has full context, so it provides more helpful advice and changes

• Generating comments: it makes it easier to add code comments they need clarifications from time to time tho

• Working with existing codebases: Cursor seems better at writing code from scratch than contributing to large existing codebases

• Hallucinations: as far as we can tell, it had fewer hallucinations compared to alternatives

• Prompting strategies: being somewhat specific in prompts by referencing classes and functions seems to work well We're currently experimenting with `.cursorrules` files to improve prompt quality