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Build an invitation card website purely by prompting

A user built a frontend-only invitation site with animations, images and navigation for his girlfriend, giving instructions to Cursor without touching the code.

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Use case overview

A user built a frontend-only invitation site with animations, images and navigation for his girlfriend, giving instructions to Cursor without touching the code.

Reported experience

  1. What they did

    Fabio Zapata gave Cursor a first prompt describing the page's goals, look and technical approach, and let it run console commands. The envelope animation went badly for 15–20 minutes of vague feedback. He then found a sample envelope animation online, recolored it, pasted it into the prompt, and told Cursor to build on it. After that he prompted for buttons, fonts and layout.

  2. How it went

    The site took 2–3 hours, against his estimate of 4–8 by hand. At about 90–95% done he switched to editing the code himself for wording, padding and margins, because small prompt tweaks took too long.

  3. Worth knowing

    Say explicitly that fonts, backgrounds and button styles are global, or Cursor applies them per page. It also accepted his false claim that a working feature was broken and rewrote it.

Example prompts

Try with Cursor
Build a frontend-only invitation website for [event or occasion] for [person or audience]. It should have [sections, e.g. a welcome screen, details, photo gallery, RSVP info], soft animations, and a [color or mood] style, using the images in [folder]. Make it run locally and tell me how to open it. You're done when I can click through every page and see it working, and I'll ask for tweaks in plain language.
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