Cursor vs Windsurf for Solo Indie Hackers (After 2 Months Side by Side)
$20 Cursor vs $15 Windsurf, both running the same MVP build. After 60 days the answer wasn’t the cheaper one — and it wasn’t even close.
Coding & Building
Honest AI coding tools for non-developer freelancers — file automations, data cleaning, simple scripts, and the workflows that turn a designer or writer into someone who can ship a working tool by Friday. Field-tested for non-engineers.
Claude Code vs Cursor: After 6 Months Side by Side, Here’s My Solo Consultant Pick
Claude Code vs Cursor — six months of side-by-side use on solo consultant work. I have paid Claude Code at $20/month and Cursor Pro at $20/month, used them daily across three to five client projects in parallel, and kept a running log of which one I opened first. The first three months I treated them … Read more
3 Cursor Scripts That Save Me 2 Hours a Week — No Coding Background Needed
The three specific automations that justified my Cursor subscription — with the exact prompts I used and the mistakes that wasted my first attempts. Content mode: Tested Two months ago I wrote about setting up Cursor as a non-developer freelancer. Since then, three scripts have survived into weekly use. Together they save me roughly two … Read more
Cursor for Non-Developers: A Freelancer’s First Month With AI Coding
I watched a colleague type a sentence into her laptop and watch 380 mis-named photo files rename themselves in under a minute. I’m not a developer. She isn’t either. I’d been planning to batch-rename the exact same kind of folder for a client that afternoon, and I’d budgeted three hours for it in Finder. That’s … Read more