12/12 sources · 93 verifiable references ·
✓revenuenot public · $20/mo
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✓traffic mix22,312,212 visits/mo · direct 59.0% · referrals 5.7% · US 19.9% · CN 14.2%
↳ SimilarWeb withholds 34% (incl. organic/social) — infer from SEO data
✓first seencircuit tripped · 531,703 backlinks / 28,809 domains
↳ no first-mention verdict at this scale — sampled 75 authority/editorial links instead
✓tech stackNext.js · React · Google Analytics
↳ framework: Next.js
✓seo11613 keywords / ~760377 traffic · US 295612 · IN 211496 · JP 75767
↳ 8/8 markets covered · 8 keywords cited in AI Overviews
✓trendspeak 2026-06 · rising
↳ +541% vs early baseline · 3 spikes
✓community40 threads · HN 30 · Reddit 10
↳ top: HN 1151 points / 1703 comments
✓teamsocial signals only: X · LinkedIn · GitHub · careers page
✓ai visibilityChatGPT 72 · Google AI 1024 mentions · ~186506 AI search volume
↳ AI answers cite: github.com · anthropic.com · reddit.com · openai.com
✓ad spendGoogle 20 running
↳ Meta not yet covered
✓archivefirst archived 1996-11-01 · 20 pricing snapshots · price up: $20 → $200
↳ 2024-06-05 $20 → 2026-01-02 $20/$60/$200
✓narrative3 narrative events · 6 sources
↳ 2023-01-23 Cursor was released as an AI-powered code editor built as a fork of VS Code. · 2024-08-22 Cursor announced $60 million in Series A funding.
timeline11 of 31
·1995-12-20domain registered
□2025-07-04 → 2025-07-10press / blog mention ×4 (batch) · developers.tiktok.com · outbrain.com · hi-tech.mail.ru
□2025-07-29 → 2025-08-10press / blog mention ×4 (batch) · qianfan.cloud.baidu.com · aws.amazon.com · blog.codepen.io
□2025-08-22 → 2025-09-03press / blog mention ×4 (batch) · developer.aliyun.com · tw.news.yahoo.com · article.auone.jp
□2025-09-09 → 2025-09-16press / blog mention ×3 (batch) · docs.rc.fas.harvard.edu · developers.google.cn · music.amazon.co.jp
□2025-10-29 → 2025-11-09press / blog mention ×3 (batch) · github.com · firebase.google.cn · recruit.group.gmo
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2023-01-23Cursor was released as an AI-powered code editor built as a fork of VS Code.
“released in January 23rd.”
2024-08-22Cursor announced $60 million in Series A funding.
“On 8/22/24, Cursor announced on its official Blog that it had raised $60 million”
2025-11Colossus published a company dispatch profile on Cursor by Brie Wolfson.
“Inside Cursor Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn By Brie Wolfson November 2025”
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backlinks
domains28,809 across 8,463 subnets · concentrated — possible link network
dofollow85% mostly passes authority
paid trail9116 sponsored · 5510 ugc
the verdict10 credits
You now have the facts. The verdict answers what they mean:
- · Which cold-start pattern this actually is
- · What assets they had before day one — and whether you have them
- · Can you copy this path, and which tactics transfer
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“AI 개발자 도구 Cursor 개발팀이 유튜브 채널 Lex Fridman과 진행하여 2024년 10월 7일 공개된 인터뷰 내용을 리뷰해봤습니다.”
“Anyone tried using Cursor with codebase indexing for XF development?”
“Cursor の場合（必ず Cursor の最新の手順 をご確認ください）:”
“Our build engineering team oversees large monorepos used to develop TypeScript projects at TikTok. As AI-assisted programming tools like Trae, Cursor , and Cline have gained popula”
community (1)
“Fine, I thought. I’ll see what the hype is about. I typed up a rough description of what I wanted—a PRD, in the flimsiest of senses—and dumped it into a couple VS Code extensions a”
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