Hazzel — a tiny, transparent coding agent for your terminal
Details
- External ID
- 49713561
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hazzel
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.32854864433811803
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- coding agent interfaces and environments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal coding agent for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight terminal-based coding assistant wrapping LLM API calls with local tool execution (file read/write, bash execution).
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Screenshots on webpage or git repository
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 2348 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1502 of 2349 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- cmux: the open source terminal built for coding agents · yc · 2026-03-03 · 735 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- Zot · hn · 2026-05-29 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- VT Code · hn · 2026-05-30 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- alter-zero · github · 2026-09-13 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- ctx, a hackable desktop workbench for coding agents · hn · 2026-06-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Clawk · hn · 2026-07-13 · 226 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Y · hn · 2026-06-24 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Sidekick · hn · 2026-06-06 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.66
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.