Just got back from MAU Vegas 2025, where I spent a few days nerding out on GTM tech stacks with folks from consumer apps, gaming, fintech, and lifecycle platforms. If you're building or scaling a mobile-first app, here s the distilled version of what top-performing teams are actually doing right now minus the vendor hype.

What s essential in 2025

The consensus was pretty clear: besides AI everything, the modern GTM tech stack for mobile apps boils down to five key components:

I'm fascinated by the ability to extend what Cursor can do with MCP features but there are so many out there, with some of questionable pedigree, that I'm having a hard time finding the gems.

I've tried a few but so far I've only gotten good usage from the Think tool which allows Cursor to basically jot down notes on it's process which it can then refer to later. Theoretically allowing more context than just the context window https://github.com/DannyMac180/m... Since I've installed it Cursor seems to use it a lot but it's hard to gauge how much it helps in practice. I'm glad the AI likes it though :)

Hello PH!

I'm Hyuntak form South Korea, quite new to this community, first time posting.

I'm a med student and solo developer.

Just a thought on Cursor and the fact that Anthropic rate limiting basically doesn't let me do anything right now. I've been developing with Cursor and Claude-3.5-Sonnet (recently 3.7-thinking) for last few months now. I've gotten to a point where I realized 1 hour of no-Cursor coding can be done in 10 minutes or less using Cursor agent. It's absolutely amazing, let me just say that.

But because of the issues with Anthropic's endpoint, I was forced to try out gpt-4o, and other models. But nothing beats Claude-3.5(7)-Sonnet. The flow of work and bug-free features are unbeatable. I also started exploring something else -> Void IDE. It's a Y Combinator backed open-source tool just like Cursor. I also learned that Qwen-2.5-coder would be a good open source model to code, on par with Anthropic's model when it comes to coding. Combining these two things, I won't need Cursor anymore. However, I didn't go that route because Void still has some catching up to do, but they'll get there.