🗞 What's New: The ultimate guide to making AI games in Cursor

Here's what you'll find in this issue:

• 30 tips for avoiding headaches in Cursor and becoming your own AI game studio.
• Hitting $35k/mo and 1M+ followers by focusing on content first. Check out this founder's story.

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We normally try to avoid clickbaity phrases like "the ultimate," but in this case it's entirely justified.

We've spent weeks studying do's and don'ts from vibe coders on X, and we've collected something like 50–100 tips. For this guide, we narrowed that down to the best 30.

Which, yes, is still a lot of information to process. But we think it's worth the rewards of avoiding future headaches in Cursor and becoming your very own game studio:

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—Channing

Kushank Aggarwal didn't follow the typical indie hacker path of "build first, market later." Instead, he spent years growing a massive social media following before launching his first product.

Now with 1M+ followers across platforms, he's gone all-in on building a portfolio of AI tools that generate $35k monthly.

Here's Kushank's story. He shares the content marketing playbook he's used to give himself an unfair marketing advantage, as well as the pivots and struggles he's faced building his product portfolio.

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Special thanks to Yushavel Calderon for the graphic design, and to James Fleischmann for contributing a post.

—Channing