What People Actually Build With Cursor: 42 Businesses, Ranked by Revenue
42 businesses built with Cursor, from a three-day prayer app at $21K a month to a $440K/mo gym app: revenue, evidence and the workflows behind them.
Cursor has built real businesses, but mostly for people who stay close to the code. The ProvenStartups index holds 42 businesses that name Cursor as how they build the product; 69% are run by one person, and 23 publish a monthly revenue figure with a median of $15K/mo. Cursor is an editor rather than an app generator, so its winners tend to be founders who read, steer and fence in what the AI writes.
How we count: a business is listed only if its own interview names Cursor in how the product is built. On October 17, 2026 we re-checked every entry and removed 21: apps built before Cursor existed, interviews that only *recommended* Cursor, "Cursor for X" analogies, companies that merely list Cursor as a customer, and Cursor's own company.
Contents
- ·Which apps built with Cursor make money?
- ·How much do apps built with Cursor earn?
- ·Can you build with Cursor if you can't code?
- ·How do successful founders use Cursor?
- ·Where did the first customers come from?
- ·Every Cursor business in the index
- ·Should you build with Cursor or Claude Code?
- ·Frequently Asked Questions
