2025-08-19
7 分钟What up nerds?
I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, August 18th, 2025.
The Hacker of the Week award goes to Gabor Nieke.
who is running a website off nine NeoVim buffers on his old ThinkPad.
Yup, Gabor wrote a NeoVim plugin in Lua that serves HTTP requests from OpenBuffers.
It has zero dependencies and runs faster than Nginx.
What have you coded lately?
Okay, let's get into this week's news.
Cursor's problem isn't just Cursor's problem.
Based on their usage and growth, which has been astounding,
Cursor has product market fit, but have they also found business model product fit?
Most likely not.
The discrepancy, subsidies.
Quote, Cursor has relied on a subscription model that historically allowed for unlimited use.
That's a fixed revenue, variable cost setup.
Insurance companies are the canonical example and they employ actuaries to accurately price risk and segment users.
Hyper growth startups rarely have that muscle.
When variable costs scale with intensity of usage, but revenue doesn't,
you're not selling software, you're underwriting risk."
The question is whether or not cursor can transition to sustainable revenue without losing their users,