I started a company! Introducing Melty, an open source AI code editor for 10x engineers. It's the first editor that understands what you’re doing from the terminal to GitHub and collaborates with you to write production-ready code.

I'm working on Melty with my long time friend—and former teammate on @BMoUltimate—@jacksondecampos. He worked at Netflix, where he built the ML infrastructure that picks the artwork you see for your favorite shows. We applied last minute to @ycombinator's S24 batch and got in!

The first few weeks of YC, we tried a bunch of ideas, but nothing was sticking. It felt like we could row the boat really fast, but didn't have the rudder pointing the right direction. We came into office hours pretty down. Then the amazing @aaron_epstein encouraged us to work on the thing we know best and have the strongest opinions about: AI dev tools. We're big fans of the tools that are out there. But we still find ourselves copy-pasting from Claude, juggling ten chats for the same task, and committing buggy code that comes back to bite us later. Nothing is quite "it" yet.

So we’re building Melty for ourselves. It's the first editor that’s aware of what you’re doing from the terminal to GitHub and collaborates with you to write production-ready code. We’ve been working on Melty for 28 days, and it’s already writing about half of its own code. It can refactor code across files:

Create web apps from scratch:

Navigate large codebases:

And even write its own commits!

Our goals for Melty: - Help you understand your code better, not worse - Watch every change you make, like a pair programmer - Learn and adapt to you - Integrate with your compiler, terminal, and debugger, as well as tools like @linear and @github

If you want to try Melty, sign up here and we'll get you set up. Can't wait to hear what you think!

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