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Turning Side Projects into Sales — My Journey to Making Money Online
From Zero to First Sale: How I Made Money Selling My Cursor AI Extension on Gumroad
Background: From Passion Project to Paid Product
For a while, I’ve been sharing my journey building various projects like linqmeup.com and linksee.io, along with experimenting with AI tools. One of my biggest challenges was organizing and exporting conversations efficiently from Cursor AI, so I built a solution: Cursor Convo Export.
This tool simplifies exporting conversations from Cursor AI, making it easier for users to save, share, and analyse their interactions. Seeing its potential value, I decided to launch it as a paid product on Gumroad.
Identifying the Problem
As a developer working with Cursor AI to code on projects, I often encountered issues where my chat sessions would become unresponsive, causing loss of valuable context and information. This recurring problem highlighted the need for a solution to efficiently save and manage these conversations.
Another thing I bumped into, was that — although the Cursor AI chats bore useful information like deployment steps, feature overviews and code talk - I found it…
