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Varun Mohan

04/20/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

Windsurf can modify existing codebases, allowing product managers to make changes directly without needing extensive coding knowledge.

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Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf

@ Lenny's Podcast

Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf

04/20/25

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Varun Mohan

05/02/25

@ Y Combinator

Windsurf is empowering non-technical domain experts to build applications without needing to rely on engineers, which changes the traditional workflow in organizations.

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Varun Mohan

04/20/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

We built Windsurf because we recognized that AI was going to write over 90% of the software, changing the role of developers to primarily reviewing code.

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Varun Mohan

05/02/25

@ Y Combinator

The mission of Windsurf is to reduce the time it takes to build technology and apps by 99%, which requires a lot of work.

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Varun Mohan

05/02/25

@ Y Combinator

We decided to expand Windsurf to support multiple IDEs because companies have developers writing in many languages, and we didn't want to turn away potential customers.

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Varun Mohan

05/02/25

@ Y Combinator

Our earliest version of Windsurf was materially worse than GitHub Copilot, but we offered it for free, which attracted a lot of developers to use it.

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Varun Mohan

05/02/25

@ Y Combinator

We made the decision to pivot to building Windsurf within a weekend, as we felt we needed to change things really fast to scale the company.

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Tom Blomfield

04/25/25

@ Y Combinator

Using both Cursor and Windsurf simultaneously can enhance your workflow, allowing you to work on front-end and back-end tasks more efficiently.

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Dwarkesh Patel Cast

05/23/25

@ Dwarkesh Patel

Windsurf took a more aggressive approach by betting on the agenticness of the model with longer-running workflows.

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Tom Blomfield

04/25/25

@ Y Combinator

If you have some coding experience, jump straight into tools like Windsurf, Cursor, or Claude Code to start building your projects effectively.