Windsurf Project Ideas & Examples

Windsurf is Codeium's agentic IDE: Cascade understands your repo, edits across files, and pairs with you like a junior engineer who already read the codebase. Best for developers who want real projects — APIs, refactors, and multi-file MVPs — not chat-only drafts.

30 project ideas

What Windsurf is Best For

Agentic coding

Codebase understanding

Multi-file editing

Code completion

Refactoring

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Getting Started with Windsurf

  1. 1

    Download Windsurf and open an empty folder (or an existing repo)

  2. 2

    Open Cascade and paste a starter prompt — or describe the MVP in one paragraph

  3. 3

    Let Cascade scaffold and edit across files; review diffs as you go

  4. 4

    Run the app locally, fix the happy path, then commit and deploy

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Windsurf Starter Prompts

Copy and paste these prompts to kickstart your project.

Full-Stack Refactor

Analyze this codebase and refactor the authentication system to use JWT tokens instead of sessions. Update all affected files including API routes, middleware, and frontend components. Maintain backward compatibility.

API Development

Create a RESTful API for [YOUR FEATURE] with proper error handling, validation, rate limiting, and authentication. Follow the existing patterns in this codebase for consistency. Include tests.

Code Review

Review this codebase for security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and code quality problems. Provide specific recommendations with code examples for each issue found.

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