I love @Cursor. It's enabled me to build (vibe code) so many web apps, sites, extensions, and little things quickly that 1. bring me joy and 2. help me with work or realize personal projects. However... I'm seeing a TON of movement around @Claude by Anthropic's Claude Code. I haven't personally tried it but it's apparently insane (and can also be expensive?) I'm curious. Should I switch? What are you currently using? Or do they both have their own use case. I right now like cursor because I can build directly in a GitHub repo or locally and it helps me learn my way around an IDE. Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts!
Last month, Cursor launched for the fifth time on Product Hunt in 2025.
The 2024 Product of the Year [1] still hits the charts. They have launched web and mobile agents, a visual editor, and 2.0, consistently ranking in the Top 5 Products of the Day.
Reviewers broadly see Cursor as a fast, context-aware coding editor that fits naturally into daily work, especially for autocomplete, refactoring, debugging, and multi-file changes without leaving the editor. Many say it reduces context switching, helps them ship faster, and is approachable even for non-engineers. Makers of Vozo AI — Video localization and Littlebird say it sped up prototyping and understood their codebase well. The main complaints are pricing clarity, token burn, occasional lag or instability, verbose output, and weaker performance on harder problems.
We’ve fully integrated Cursor into our dev workflow- it's an insane productivity enhancer when it comes to writing, debugging, and understanding code faster.
Before Cursor, we tried tools like GitHub Copilot and a few others. Copilot was helpful for autocomplete, but Cursor feels more like a full assistant—understanding broader context, offering file-aware suggestions, and supporting full conversation threads tied to your actual code.
If you’re building fast and want to stay in flow, we can’t recommend Cursor enough. It’s a superpower for any developer. Amazing work by the small and mighty cursor team.
We've been using Cursor, and we really appreciate how well the interaction is designed. The chat experience feels natural, and the way suggestions are presented aligns perfectly with how we work as developers. Instead of overwhelming us with changes, it provides diffs that we can choose to apply or not, keeping me in control of the process.
So far, I’ve found it especially useful for refactoring, prototyping, and testing—helping us move faster while maintaining quality. Overall, it feels like a thoughtful and developer-friendly tool that integrates seamlessly into our workflow.
In 2024, we shifted our engineering team to cursor and an AI-first mentality. If you know how to do it without AI, you should use AI to do it for you. Why? Because this is the best way to make sure you understand the code and what it's doing, but you'll do it faster. Too many of our developers were stuck in that mentality. The composer feature of Cursor is really helpful. We combine it with SmythOS agent sentinel, which connects our github to clickup and knowledge base along with AI LLMs to reason about our entire project. Sentinel is trained to write perfect composer specifications for a given ticket, so that Cursor can do its magic.