Like, see both Zed and Sylix start from similar places (Rust, not a VS Code fork, "editors feel bloated, let's rebuild"), but their goals diverge pretty quickly. Zed's original focus was on real-time collaborative editing — multiplayer, Google Docs for code, buttery smooth rendering. AI was added later on top of that. Sylix, on the other hand, is AI-first from day one — built around the Cursor version 2.0 style workflow (minimobs, parallel agents, Element browse) but on your own subscriptions or keys instead of locking you into one model. We're built on Monaco and the monaco-vscode API, natively in Rust, giving us much of VS Code's extension ecosystem without actually forking VS Code.
I also realized that I didn’t introduce myself properly. My name is Sairaj Ambekar, but you can call me Saai. I’m 17 years old, a full-stack developer, and the co-founder of Sylix. We refrained from providing details on the About page because we weren't comfortable revealing our identities before we open-source the project. You were correct to point this out.
If you're interested, we will soon update the About page. After considering your feedback, I made several important changes.
Firstly, we removed the phrase “building in the open” because it didn’t accurately describe Sylix, which is currently closed-source. We plan to open-source it later when it's stable, as we mainly write the UI code ourselves for now. I want to be honest about its current status.
Secondly, we clarified the user numbers. It was misleading to state that we had "around 43 users" in one instance and "thousands" in another. We currently have about 43 early users who are using their own OpenCode or Claude API; however, most of them use DeepSeek, and that is now clearly stated.
Finally, we rewrote the About page to better reflect who is building Sylix, rather than relying on descriptions; more will be updated soon.
Hey HN, I'm Saai, one of the creators of Sylix. I made this open-minded version of Cursor where you can get all of the core features of Cursor but in a fully customizable IDE (Ctrl+K, @docs, parallel agents). We love Cursor so much, but there are so many other features we're building, including all things like multi-edit, parallel swaps, agent indexing (but not the traditional one), parallel...
Hey HN,Honest truth — we were frustrated.We're 5 second-year college students. No funding. No startup pedigree. Got rejected from our college incubator. Didn't even know what problem we were actually solving at first.So we stopped theorizing and walked into classrooms. No pitch deck. No hype. Just — "try it, tell us what sucks." One week. 100+ IT students signed up. Zero ads. Pure word of...