Was building your own editor from scratch always part of the plan?
Replied byMichael Truell
Co-Founder & CEO at Anysphere (Cursor)
Niche: AI, SaaS, Technology
Revenue: $1M+/month
Location: USA
Started: 2022
At first, yes. We wanted to redefine how software gets built, so we created a minimal version of VS Code ourselves. But it became clear we were spending too much energy reinventing the wheel, so we switched to building on top of VS Code.
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