Thank you for putting this together. I’m about to take on a large project that I’d normally have a team supporting, but this time it’s just me. I know full stack, but this is still a significant amount of work, and you’ve convinced me to move forward with a combination of Cursor and GitHub Copilot.
Claude has been my go-to for quick, smaller tasks, though I may need to rethink that as well. My Replit account ends in four days (not renewing), and while I built six things there, I never deployed any of them because, as you pointed out, it made some very interesting decisions.
This is exactly the kind of use case I had in mind when I wrote this, so I’m really glad it helped. Your plan to combine Cursor + Copilot is honestly what I’d recommend too, especially for a solo build of that size. Cursor will give you speed and UI momentum early on, and Copilot will help you tighten things up when the codebase starts getting complex. One thing I’d suggest (based on what I saw during testing): be intentional about when you switch between them. Cursor is great for generating features quickly, but before things pile up, running a “Copilot pass” on critical parts (auth, API routes, data layer) can save you from subtle bugs later. Also not surprised at all about your Replit experience. It’s powerful, but those “interesting decisions” can become expensive to fix once the app grows.
If you don’t mind sharing, what kind of project are you building? I’m curious how you’re planning to structure it solo.
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Thank you for putting this together. I’m about to take on a large project that I’d normally have a team supporting, but this time it’s just me. I know full stack, but this is still a significant amount of work, and you’ve convinced me to move forward with a combination of Cursor and GitHub Copilot.
Claude has been my go-to for quick, smaller tasks, though I may need to rethink that as well. My Replit account ends in four days (not renewing), and while I built six things there, I never deployed any of them because, as you pointed out, it made some very interesting decisions.
This is exactly the kind of use case I had in mind when I wrote this, so I’m really glad it helped. Your plan to combine Cursor + Copilot is honestly what I’d recommend too, especially for a solo build of that size. Cursor will give you speed and UI momentum early on, and Copilot will help you tighten things up when the codebase starts getting complex. One thing I’d suggest (based on what I saw during testing): be intentional about when you switch between them. Cursor is great for generating features quickly, but before things pile up, running a “Copilot pass” on critical parts (auth, API routes, data layer) can save you from subtle bugs later. Also not surprised at all about your Replit experience. It’s powerful, but those “interesting decisions” can become expensive to fix once the app grows.
If you don’t mind sharing, what kind of project are you building? I’m curious how you’re planning to structure it solo.