Pontus Abrahamsson — oss/acc@pontusab
I’ve never shared MRR before, but here’s the crazy story of how we built Cursor Directory, a 3-hour hack that now makes $35k/month.
It started right before I moved to France.
I had downloaded some videos for the flight, stumbled upon .cursorrules, and immediately called Viktor: “We need to build a website for these.”
Three hours later, Cursor Directory was live.
Within minutes, thousands of visitors landed on the site.
While we focused on our main startup Midday, the directory kept exploding:
- Covered by major tech YouTubers
- Shared in meetups worldwide
- Quickly hitting 150k unique visitors/month
Then came MCPs
We added a simple page to explore them. Traffic spiked to 200k/month.
Since all traffic was organic, we tried ads. I posted here on X with a payment link.
Minutes later - every slot was sold out.
From there, we kept adding:
- Job listings
- Featured MCPs
- Company profiles
- User profiles
- Rules generator
And more ways for people to discover, share, and connect.
That pushed us to 295k unique visitors/month.
What started as a fun weekend hack has turned into something far bigger:
- $35k+ MRR from ads & listings
- $150k+ in profit (yes)
- 55.5k registered users
We could only dream of this outcome.
Lesson? Sometimes the smallest hacks create the biggest waves.
Cursor Directory has opened more doors than we could’ve imagined and it all started with a 3-hour flight.
