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What they're building

building the open agent runtime

Batch
Y Combinator Fall 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
1
Based
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Founders

herdr.dev ↗

See their funding details ↗

herdr on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Developers don't run one coding agent anymore. They run fleets of them — for hours, sometimes days — across laptops, servers, and sandboxes. Keeping track of that work is the new bottleneck: which agent is blocked, which one finished, which terminal is it in, and why did everything die when the laptop closed. Herdr is the open-source home for that work. A background server owns the agents' terminal sessions on each machine, so the work survives disconnects, closed lids, and dropped SSH. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Herdr is the runtime your coding agents live on. It holds real terminals open on your laptop, your desktop or a box you rent, so the work survives the lid closing — and you can attach again from anything with a keyboard." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Can Celik, Founder/CEO: Founder of herdr, the open runtime for coding agents. Previously built AI-assisted ultrasound technology and led AI teams in fintech. Now I live in the terminal and build tools for people who do too. (source)

Code

  • GitHub organization herdrdev: 2 public repositories, 35650 stars in total, mostly Rust; most starred is herdr (35642 stars, Rust); last push 2026-09-05 (read 2026-09-06). (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch herdr

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Dev Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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