Hazzel — a tiny, transparent coding agent for your terminal
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HN · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: ai coding agents · 470 launches, 22 in the last 7 days ▼ -48% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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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 : 5572 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3659 of 5573 (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 · 737 upvotes · similarity 0.77
- Zot · hn · 2026-05-29 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- VT Code · hn · 2026-05-30 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- orchestra · github · 2026-10-13 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- alter-zero · github · 2026-09-13 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- ctx, a hackable desktop workbench for coding agents · hn · 2026-06-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- jouet · github · 2026-10-30 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- uncut · github · 2026-11-01 · 604 upvotes · similarity 0.70
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