The Story
As a creative with a couple YouTube channels with 55,000+ subscribers, I’ve found Cursor to be for creative minds as ToonSquid has become for animators — an intuitive tool that removes friction between imagination and execution.
~8 months ago, I started — and restarted — building Diji.Art. That’s Diji with a “J” dot “Art”. (Technical Audit: DijiArt Technical Audit - May 2026 - Google Sheets )
My first naive love, was Bolt.new (incredible), then Lovable.dev (not incredible… run away), Replit (meh), Databutton (expensive white-label nightmare, also run away), Builder.io (amazing! starter and design), and finally I restarted the entire project in Cursor IDE.
I fell in love with Cursor — not just because of the multi-agents or IDE itself, but because of how easy it was to set up MCP servers (we’re talking ancient times… 8 months ago 
), plan, plan some more, and write documentations, .cursor/rules, to completely flush out ideas of systems I had in my head, with direct feedback.
Once I became really comfortable navigating Cursor and working with agents, mastering the .cursor/rules…
see:
I needed to prove something to myself as a self-proclaimed power user:
Could I build anything I wanted using Agentic coding AI, and ship it professionally to production, by myself?
For context, I’m an old-school millennial who used to build PHP/WAMP/XAMPP/MAMP servers in my mom’s basement. Over the years I dabbled in PHP, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, CodeIgniter, Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, jQuery, and plenty more — but I never fully committed to becoming a “modern engineer.”
What I did have was decades of product ideas, and experience writing tech and site-spec documentations into the thousands of pages.
I originally needed a tool to eliminate the literal thousands of hours of manual data entry we were doing across curated marketplaces like Etsy, Jane, Amazon, and others — while also managing 60,000+ curated designs for our family home-based print shop.
But once I saw what I could do with agentic “vibe coding” in Cursor, that tiny idea evolved into a genuinely massive full-stack SaaS platform.
The craziest part?
The bulk of it was built in about one month.
The following 7 months were mostly refinement and expansion — like having a magic wand where if I thought of something, I could usually build it in a day or less.
Cursor + agentic coding fast-tracked me back into software development. I became a student again, learning enough engineering practices, architecture, guiderails, and conventions so AI could reliably fill my gaps inside Cursor.
Now I can professionally learn/build for almost any client in almost any stack:
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Shopify app? No problem.
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Blender add-on? Easy.
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Adobe plugin? Yep.
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Revive a 15-year-old database monster? I gotcha.
I genuinely feel like a kid sitting in a mountain of Legos with a magic wand.
Thank you, Cursor, for being my landing pad.
Antigravity and Windsurf aren’t even close yet.
The Stack
At its core, Diji.Art is:
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React + TypeScript + Vite frontend
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Supabase backend (PostgreSQL, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions)
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Railway-hosted Express API
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Netlify deployment + edge functions
The platform supports a complete role hierarchy:
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Visitors
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Registered users
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Org owners
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Admins
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Superadmins
Everything is enforced with Row-Level Security at the database layer, plus a custom MFA system for privileged access.
What’s Been Shipped (The Nerdy Stuff)
For a solo project, the breadth of shipped functionality is honestly kind of wild.
Design Infrastructure
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Full design catalog
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SKU generation
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Category management
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AI-powered tagging + metadata enrichment
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Soft-delete architecture
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Bulk management tooling
Apparel & Product Systems
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Sophisticated combo system pairing digital designs with blank apparel
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Live apparel API integrations for inventory + pricing sync
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Automated schedulers, cron jobs, circuit breakers, and audit logging
Commerce & Operations
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Stripe checkout using a webhook-free cart session pattern
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Order reconciliation scheduler for interrupted checkouts
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Fulfillment invoicing workflows
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ShipStation CSV imports
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Custom invoices
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DTF / gangsheet payable links
AI Infrastructure
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Dual AI credit system:
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Personal pools
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Organization-scoped pools
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Third-Party Integrations
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Etsy OAuth + direct listing uploads through a Railway proxy
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ShipStation V1 + V2 admin tooling
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Jane.com CSV exports
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Amazon export tooling
Bonus Feature: Word Art Editor
One of my favorite features is a fully custom Word Art editor built on top of wordcloud2.js.
The same rendering engine powers both preview and export, so fidelity stays perfectly consistent.
Users can publish directly into the design catalog from the editor.
The AI-Assisted Dev Infrastructure
Possibly the most underrated part of the entire platform is the operational scaffolding built specifically around agentic development.
Living Documentation
- 107 markdown files actively maintained alongside the codebase
Cursor Rules
Scoped by domain:
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Database
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Checkout
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AI systems
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UI
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APIs
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Infrastructure
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etc.
AI Help & Tutorials Center
A built-in documentation brain with:
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Two-pass routing
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Multi-turn chat
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Topic memory
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Thumbs ratings
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Context-aware assistance
Superadmin Impersonation
Debug any organization or user experience instantly without maintaining separate test accounts.
Final Thought
The platform isn’t just feature-rich.
It’s architected specifically to be maintained and extended by agentic coding agents working in parallel — with conventions, constraints, and context systems designed so future work doesn’t accidentally break what already exists.
Built solo.
Powered by Cursor.