Cursor AI Tutorial: Build a Full Stack App with AI in 30 Minutes | Nat Eliason

My guest today is Nat Eliason. Nat teaches the “Build Your Own Apps with AI” course which made $200K in just 7 days. I’m one of his 1,000+ students so naturally, I made him build an app to remix long-form content into viral tweets live with Cursor. We also talked about how he wrote his brand new SciFi novel with AI as his primary editor. This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join 9K+ companies like Atlassian who use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real-time. Get $1000 off at https://vanta.com/peter Timestamps: (00:00) If you wake up and decide what to make, your job is safe (03:00) Building an AI blog to tweet content remixer with Cursor (12:58) YOLO mode: Let AI run wild on your code (23:32) The moment of truth: Getting the UI to work (27:01) Hooking up with Anthropic's API and security tips (32:02) Success! From zero to working app (32:46) Adding one-click tweeting that just works (34:55) Nat's top tip for vibe coding (39:36) Will AI give us digital immortality? (41:04) How to use AI to edit an entire SciFi novel (44:07) Will AI tools wipe out creative jobs? Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/cursor-ai-tutorial-build-a-full-stack-app-nat-eliason Where to find Nat: X: https://x.com/nateliason Website: https://www.buildyourownapps.com/ Book: https://shop.nateliason.com/products/husk 📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!