“I posted the cursor directory on X at the initial release. I mean we're building public on X, we share everything we do all the way to the code right, we are fully open source. So I think we had like 1 million impressions on one of the posts and of course we had several posts so we have a developer following from the beginning.”

Stack Months Of Build-In-Public On X So One Launch Post Hits A Million Impressions

The launch wasn't a cold drop, it was the payoff of an existing build-in-public habit on X with an open-source developer audience. One post hit 1M impressions, then Hacker News front page, then YouTuber coverage compounded on top. The pre-built distribution is what made a 3-hour weekend project flip to $35K/month inside weeks.