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"Melty is 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."
Founded by Charlie Holtz & Jackson de Campos
Hi everyone! Meet Charlie and Jackson. They’re longtime friends who met playing ultimate frisbee at Brown.
Charlie comes from Replicate, where he started the Hacker in Residence team and accidentally struck fear into the heart of Hollywood. Jackson comes from Netflix, where he built machine learning infrastructure that picks the artwork you see for your favorite shows.
They’ve used most of the AI coding tools out there, and often ended up copy-pasting code, juggling ten chats for the same task, or committing buggy code that comes back to bite them later. AI has already transformed how they code, but the founders know it can do a lot more.
So they’re building Melty, 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.
They’ve been working on Melty for 28 days, and it’s already writing about half of its own code. It can…
(all demos real-time)
Refactor code across files
https://www.loom.com/share/f0e7ae2644e6492ab9e9352fbd14ae8d?sid=b5d497cd-65f4-47ca-955a-73332d8edc4d
Create web apps from scratch
https://www.loom.com/share/4f4f85c3de8b420e85b65537b775e3c8?sid=01b43f48-0fec-400a-8bee-71132f6d4610
Navigate large codebases
https://www.loom.com/share/fc4eb54385a5426586160fad5dbfc1be?sid=73a79e2e-1505-47a1-838b-a375cf7523e4
Write its own commits
The company founders are designing Melty to
- Help you understand your code better, not worse
- Watch every change you make, like a pair programmer
- Learn and adapt to your codebase
- Integrate with your compiler, terminal, and debugger, as well as tools like Linear and GitHub
Learn More
🌐 Visit melty.sh to learn more.
💭 Try Melty and tell the founders what you think. It’s a fork of VS Code, so it’s compatible with all your settings and extensions.
📧 Tell the founders: what AI coding tools do you use, what do you like about them, and what’s frustrating? DM Charlie or send them an email.
👣 Follow Melty on LinkedIn & X.
