Man, it borders on RIDICULOUS for YC to launch an RFS for “Cursor for Product Managers” and not MENTION Lovable and the like. I thought… “ah, it must be an old video”. It isn’t. Then I watched the video. I got even more upset. Let me explain.
OK, I get that it’s not about the “build” part, but the discovery part. I thought, “Wait, is a PM’s job ‘only’ discovery?”. I gave some explanations of how we use it — as a team, not Éfrem as an individual — to talk to synthetic people, do market analysis, deepen research… BUUUUT I think there’s nothing there that an assistant hasn’t solved for me. With building it was different.
It really made a difference to use something more than a copilot/assistant AI. In the past I built PMAutomator and abandoned it because I couldn’t see what I could add as a differentiator.
Maybe I didn’t do good discovery? Must be. Is there something I’m not seeing? VERY likely. And I go back to the beginning… not even mentioning the “builders” that are friendlier to non-devs? I find it strange.
Please tell me I’m wrong and that there’s a lot of differentiation in a product like this. :)
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Originally written in Portuguese and published on LinkedIn on February 4, 2026. I translated it into English with the help of AI (Claude): it let me bring my LinkedIn posts to people who don’t read Portuguese without rewriting each one from scratch. I reviewed the translation to keep my original meaning and tone.