Build Anything With Cursor, Here's How

Try Traycer free for 7 days @ https://traycer.ai/buildgreatproducts 🚀 Join my community to build and launch your app idea with AI today @ https://www.skool.com/aiapps/about 💡 Get 150+ validated app ideas and the prompts to build FREE @ https://readytobuild.app/ Ralph is getting a lot of attention right now for being able to code autonomously through lists of features with clear specs for hours - and code your entire app whilst you sleep. But there is a time and place for Ralph, and in this video I explore another type of spec-driven development using a new AI planning tool which a lot of people are using called Traycer. I genuinely rate Traycer for it's in depth approach to project planning before you even write a single line of code - it runs directly inside Cursor via an extension and sends prompts and specs straight to your coding agent of choice - including Claude Code. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to the Ralph AI coding workflow. 01:02 Introducing Tracer for spec-driven development. 02:56 Comparing the Ralph workflow to Tracer's approach. 04:40 Outlining the 'YouTube to Book' app idea. 06:37 Starting the project by planning an 'epic' in Tracer. 09:24 Answering Tracer's detailed planning questions. 13:06 Generating the Epic Brief and Tech Plan documents. 17:51 Breaking down the project plan into tickets. 18:40 Handing off the first ticket to Claude Code. 22:13 Reviewing the initial app setup from Claude Code. 23:20 Demonstrating the iterative workflow with the next ticket. 25:32 Recapping the benefits of spec-driven development. Key points: - I walk through the best practices for Ralph and what it is good and bad at - I break down another approach to spec-driven development using Traycer and when it might be better than Ralph - I plan and start building an application step by step so you can learn how to use Traycer and start spec-driven development Follow me on social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashbychris/ https://x.com/chris_bgp