I mortgage my house so you can finally vibe code while pooping.
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 un
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."
There has to be a better way
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.
What we built: the team, not the session
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
- Create agents: each with its own computer, skills, instructions, memory. Developers, QA, Designers, all agentic.
- A full pipeline: spec → plan → build → test → review → ship
- A team that stays up 24/7: Your agents keep working when your laptop closes, they run persistent tasks, fully autonomous, not just cron jobs.
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...
Pricing we'd want to pay ourselves
This one mattered to us personally, because we got tired of the three broken pricing models in this space:
- Flat subscriptions with token walls: $200/month and "you hit your 5 hour limit"... HELL ON EARTH? What am I supposed to do now? Go touch grass for 5 hours? Call my parents, friends? NO! these are the only friends I need
- Massive markups on tokens: Somebody resells you Claude tokens at 3 to 10x and calls it a platform fee. Just GPT wrappers with a 300x markup. Worse, you give them access to your team and they use $400 to mine $5 worth of BTC.
- Per seat pricing: Pay per person, and the idle ones cost you the same as the busy ones. Someone doesn't use it, someone else subsidizes it.
So we did the boring, honest thing:
- CPU, RAM, and storage billed at rates comparable to the major cloud providers, with super low markup, itemized line by line. A 2 vCPU / 4 GB agent runs about $0.065/hour (~$47/month). No mystery line items. Don't need it? Turn it off. No subscription, no hassle.
- We installed native GLM with only a low single digit markup on the intelligence layer to cover (now exorbitant) Stripe tax. Bring your own API keys if you prefer, we don't really care: Hell, we use Claude and it works just fine. No vendor lock in.
- Pay only while agents run. Pause an agent and CPU/RAM charges stop instantly. Only storage persists. No idle compute charges, no reserved instances, no seat limits, no commitments.
- Designed for teams. Yes, the $400 of tokens for a developer making $5 of BTC was not a joke. You have full visibility on what your human (and AI) team is doing, plus a full leaderboard and gamification: whoever burns the most tokens gets a free company hoodie! Hell yeah! (Except the idiot burning $400 of tokens to make $5.)
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.
What we're really betting on
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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