High-performance, open source, multiplayer code editor
Fast — Written from scratch in Rust to efficiently leverage multiple CPU cores and your GPU. • Agentic — Run agents in parallel to smoothly edit files, navigate code, and run tools at native speed. • Collaborative — Chat with teammates, code together, and share your screen and project.
How does it handle merge conflicts in real time when two people edit the same line?
About Zed 1.0 on Product Hunt
“High-performance, open source, multiplayer code editor”
Zed 1.0 launched on Product Hunt on May 1st, 2026 and earned 146 upvotes and 2 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. Fast — Written from scratch in Rust to efficiently leverage multiple CPU cores and your GPU. • Agentic — Run agents in parallel to smoothly edit files, navigate code, and run tools at native speed. • Collaborative — Chat with teammates, code together, and share your screen and project.
On the analytics side, Zed 1.0 competes within Open Source, Text Editors, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 638k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Zed 1.0 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Zed 1.0?
Zed 1.0 was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Chris Messina