About JSX Tool
Jamie and Dan have been friends for nearly 20 years. We both grew up on New York City's Upper West Side and attended Bard High School on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Over the past two decades, we've conspired to work on something together. A year ago, we hacked on a mobile app to bypass news site paywalls and decided we wanted to continue working together after that experience.
How we got here
Jamie has had a deep interest in higher order programming for a while. He previously built a version control system to diff and merge structured, non-textual assets. Many of the problems that come up in version control systems are very similar to the problems encountered when mapping DOM elements back to their textual representations.
Our goal with JSX tool is to make React development truly browser first. We believe the future of React tooling lives where your code actually runs. Context isn't only useful for LLMs, it's crazy we've spent over a decade in a world of component-driven development without ever really being able to see our code or make edits in our browsers.
Jamie Sunderland
Co-Founder & CEO
Jamie is a second time YC founder. Prior to founding JSX Tool, he worked as a Software Engineer at YCombinator on their investor software. He previously co-founded Cheqout, a restaurant technology company that was a part of the YC W21 batch. Prior to his first startup, Jamie worked on Airbnb's China Risk Team.
Dan Hyman
Co-Founder & CTO
Dan is an engineering leader with deep expertise in AWS architecture, cost optimization, and scaling secure, reliable systems. Most recently as a Senior Software Engineer at Everblue, he led engineering teams building workflow applications that power multiple government systems. Prior to that he worked as a Senior Cloud Engineer at Sela US. In a former life he was a Chef at a James Beard award winning restaurant.