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I Built an App with Cursor, Made $30K, and Quit My Job.

Name: I Built an App with Cursor, Made $30K, and Quit My Job.
Uploaded: 2025-05-24
Duration: 14 min 2 s
Description: Paulius Masalskas built a $30K app using AI tools (Cursor) and quit his job. The episode covers how he found the idea, the launch experience, building MVPs with AI, designing UI/UX with AI, what to focus on in a landing page, building in public, tech stack, and day-in-the-life.

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Synopsis

Paulius Masalskas built a $30K app using AI tools (Cursor) and quit his job. The episode covers how he found the idea, the launch experience, building MVPs with AI, designing UI/UX with AI, what to focus on in a landing page, building in public, tech stack, and day-in-the-life.

Ideas in this episode

Prompt-to-SaaS / single-prompt MVP builder
Pick one micro-feature from an existing product, build it as a standalone weekend MVP in Cursor with a public build-in-public thread on LinkedIn and X, and validate before integrating.
Vibe-coded app launch / 14-day MVP
Paulius Masalskas's $30K Cursor app supports picking one micro-feature from an existing product, building it as a standalone weekend MVP in Cursor with a public build-in-public thread on LinkedIn and X, and validating before integrating.