Jcode launch: what they're building and where to launch next
What they're building
The harness company
Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Consumer
Team size
1
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founders
- Jeremy Huang · Founder/CEO
Jcode on the record
What they shipped
- From its YC profile: An agent is LLM + harness: We work purely on that second component. We do research to produce the most capable harness. Our harness has 18k stars on github (source)
- Its own site describes it as: "jcode is an open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, written in Rust. Durable memory, background tasks, and agent swarms, installed with one command." (source)
Who is behind it
- Jeremy Huang, Founder/CEO: hacked github top 500 monkey type https://github.com/1jehuang age 21 (source)
Code
- GitHub user 1jehuang: 40 public repositories, 21149 stars in total, mostly Rust; most starred is jcode (19195 stars, Rust); last push 2026-09-06 (read 2026-09-06). (source)
Timeline
- 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
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Where else to launch Jcode
- Product Hunt ↗
- Hacker News (Show HN) ↗Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
- Dev Hunt ↗
- There's An AI For That ↗
- Futurepedia ↗
- FutureTools ↗
- Indie Hackers Forum ↗Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
- The Next AI ↗
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