Key takeaways
- Discover Melty, an open source AI code editor designed for 10x engineers.
- Founded by Charlie Holtz and Jackson de Campos, Melty is backed by Y Combinator.
- Melty aims to streamline code collaboration from terminal to GitHub for developers.
- In just 28 days, Melty is already writing half of its own code.
- Founders emphasize the need for more effective AI developer tools in the market.
With AI code editors like Cursor, Zed, and Codeium, gathering all the attention, there is an open source alternative recently launched in the market. Meet Melty, an open source AI code editor, which is specifically designed for 10x engineers.
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Started by Charlie Holtz and Jackson de Campos, Melty is backed by Y Combinator and is part of the S24 batch. The founders tout it is the first editor that understands what developers are coding from the terminal to GitHub and collaborates for writing production ready code.
In a thread on X, Holtz said that during the first weeks of YC they were still figuring out a bunch of ideas when they started working on AI developer tools as suggested by Aaron Epstein. “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,” said Holtz.
After working on Melty for 28 days, Holtz said that Melty is already writing about half of its own code.
“Charlie and Jackson build so fast you’d think they’re a team of 10 stacked engineers, rather than just 2 co-founders. Melty’s going to give every engineer their superpowers,” said Epstein.
The goal that the team explains of building Melty is to help people understand the code by allowing them to watch every change like a pair programmer and it also learns to adapt to the developer building the code.
