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Duolingo just launched a full chess course. It wasn’t built by a huge team or chess experts. It started with a PM, a designer, and Cursor, an AI coding assistant. No engineers. No dev team. Here’s how they built and shipped the course in 8 months using AI. 🧵👇↗

·@shweta_ai·Jun 18, 2025·essay·ai·chess·cursor·duolingo

Never underestimate the power of One Good Tweet. Rork’s founders were $15k in credit card debt and sleeping on a friend’s mattress when Matt’s post went viral. 15 mins later, Austen Allred wired $100k. By end of day they closed $350k, leading to a $2.8M seed round led by a16z.↗