Getting MCP, Cursor, and WSL playing together [Updated 25/04/2025]
For weeks I've been trying to get MCPs working in cursor on my windows laptop, where my code is running in WSL. I've cracked it, thanks to a friendly person on Reddit.
I once spent some time building a SAAS app that would send text messages on a regular basis, up to 6 per day.
It was a consumer app, so I'd costed it at $10 a month.
Not great in terms of income, but it was in the weight-loss market, so the total revenue could have been interesting enough to work with.
So I spent a few weeks getting it built, then I realised something. I'd costed out using US customers (even though I'm in the UK).
US customers would run at 1.40 USD per subscriber per month. Not a bad mark-up.
But SMS messages in Belgium via Twilio are 0.10 USD per message.
0.1*6*30 = 18.00 USD.
Oops.
What about here in the UK? I'd be running at just over 7 USD.
So I canned that idea for now.
For weeks I've been trying to get MCPs working in cursor on my windows laptop, where my code is running in WSL. I've cracked it, thanks to a friendly person on Reddit.
I've recently started expanding my usage of Cursor to let it run commands, tests, etc and fix it's own issues. Here's my experience.
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