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I mortgage my house so you can finally vibe code while pooping.

A bootstrapped developer launched JackHamr, a cloud platform that provisions teams of specialized AI coding agents, each running on its own cloud instance with VS Code, terminal, browser, Docker and Git preinstalled at up to 16 cores and 64 GB of RAM. The tool lets users define agent roles and review gates, clone existing repos, spin up Docker Compose stacks and open pull requests, positioning itself as a complement to LLMs like Claude rather than a replacement. It is free to start with $30 in credit.

by read3 min views2 publishedOct 7, 2026

We've all been there. 1 bedroom studio, 2 AM, Claude is taking his time 2 hours in, you want to go to bed, your computer is crashing, she's so hot you are getting anxious, but you don't give up, you cover the computer under a wet towel and hope Claude doesn't fuck up.

You wake up, not the best sleep having a computer sounding like a Boeing 747 and as bright as the sun, you look at the masterpiece Claude did and you see despair. "You hit your session limit, wait 5 more hours."

We are not looking to replace any LLM, that's not our move, that's not the strategy. We are here to complement it. Full disclosure, we fully use Claude inside Jackhamr and it is 10x better and we love it.

The problem is not coding, it's everything around it.

Let me explain. Every few weeks a new AI coding tool launches, and every one of them is genuinely amazing.

We used all of them. We loved all of them. And we kept running into the same wall:

A single agent is not a team. Multiple chat threads are not a team.

One agent, no matter how good, has to be its own product manager, architect, developer, QA engineer, and code reviewer. That's not efficient. Add the fact that when you close your laptop work stops, and you can't really be productive on your mobile... I want to be able to vibe code while I poop.

Coding itself is not the problem anymore.

JackHamr doesn't give you one agent. It gives you the workshop where you can get the team you need for any task.

It provides 3 key things:

Infrastructure (yes we bought this) + LLM (or your own) + Agentic Nothing is predefined. You decide who's on the team, what each agent knows, and where the gates are.

Your job is just to translate the world to the team, they do the rest.

Every specialist runs on its own cloud instance: VS Code, terminal, browser, Docker, and Git preinstalled, up to 16 cores and 64 GB of RAM, resized at any time.

This is what "live, not localhost" means in practice: what an agent builds actually runs, gets tested at a real link, and can go live on your own domain in one click. GitHub is built in. Agents clone your existing repo, work on branches, bring your Docker Compose stack up, and open PRs you review with one click.

Want to move what you build somewhere else? Go ahead, I dare you to move to Grok.

And it's not just dev teams. Your marketing team loves it, agentic SEO, your sales team has their own SDRs working 24/7, that cute Jr. AE? She'll be all over you after she sees what an agentic agent does to her CRM hygiene, guaranteed.

And the best...

This one mattered to us personally, because we got tired of the three broken pricing models in this space:

So we did the boring, honest thing:

Our policy is:

No bullshit pricing.

We are not VC backed, we are still dreamers, no sales team, no fancy R&D or marketing teams, and an ads budget comparable to a meal at Five Guys. We are just passing the savings and letting the product speak for itself.

Our motto:

We either die heroes or live long enough to be taken over by a PE firm.

We built a tool we genuinely love and use 24/7, at a price we'd happily pay ourselves, betting that you'll love it as much as we do.

We would love to help you build and host the entire project for you. We are bootstrapped, so we don't need a VC telling us what to do.

We genuinely love what we built and I am sure you'll love it as well.

That's why we built it.

Try it: jackhamr.ai, free to start with $30 in credit, running in about two minutes, launch a full project in an hour.

PS please only do 1 free trial, I mortgage my house to buy a Nvidia rtx 5090

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