Pontus Abrahamsson

Pontus Abrahamsson is a Swedish self-taught software engineer from Stockholm, best known as the co-founder of Midday, the open-source business app for freelancers and small companies that Ramp acquired in May 2026, and as the creator of Cursor Directory, the community site for Cursor rules and MCP servers. Since the acquisition Pontus has worked at Ramp.

Pontus taught himself to program, starting with PHP before moving to JavaScript and later TypeScript. He attended John Bauer upper-secondary school from 2006 to 2009, and in 2016 founded React Native Sverige, a community for React Native developers in Sweden.

Midday began in 2023 as a side project with longtime friend Viktor Hofte, born out of their own frustration with running small businesses across scattered tools. It combines invoicing, time tracking, transaction reconciliation, and financial insights. The two built it fully in public as an open-source project and open startup, launched it on Product Hunt on June 26, 2024 after about eight months of work, finished as #2 Product of the Day and grew the repository past 14,000 GitHub stars.

Cursor Directory started as a quick hack after Pontus noticed developers sharing Cursor rules in scattered gists: he had the idea on a flight to France, called Viktor when he landed, and the two built and shipped the first version in about three hours, launching it on Product Hunt on August 26, 2024. It grew into a hub for rules, MCP servers and plugins, Pontus said in 2025 that it was making about $35K a month, and in 2026 it became part of Cursor. The duo also launched Languine, a localization tool and CLI for translating apps, in 2025.

On May 7, 2026 Ramp announced that Midday and both co-founders were joining the company to bring Midday's design approach to Ramp's products, giving existing customers a migration path or 90 days to export their data. Pontus's X bio now says he is building Ramp, which makes him a former indie maker on this list.