You had a false start. What went wrong in the beginning?
Replied byMichael Truell
Co-Founder & CEO at Anysphere (Cursor)
Niche: AI, SaaS, Technology
Revenue: $1M+/month
Location: USA
Started: 2022
We spent almost a year wandering in the desert working on mechanical engineering tools something we weren't passionate about. It had really bad founder market fit. We weren’t mechanical engineers, and the space didn’t click for us.
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