DeepSeek Harness = Claude Code for $0
🔥 Glaido: https://bit.ly/4eGoI3R (use code: WHSAAKXO for 1 FREE month) 📈 ALL Systems: https://bit.ly/4kol0y5 🩵 Free Resources: https://bit.ly/3RNNDLa *👋 Howdy* Hey, I'm Jack, I built and sold my last tech startup with a Gazillion customers, now I'm building AI startups and I share stuff that works. I quit my corporate job to do my start-up and have never looked back since. *💬 Overview* The DeepSeek harness gives you a Claude Code style coding agent that's completely free, MIT licensed and runs any model you want on your own machine. You and I walk through what a harness actually is, the model is the brain and the harness is the body, then grab the repo from GitHub, run it locally and swap between DeepSeek V4 Flash, Claude, ChatGPT or free models through OpenRouter. From there we get it to build its own memory tool, then wire in Zapier so it can draft Gmail emails on your behalf, which is a genuinely useful setup. We also cover when Claude Code is still the better pick for polished, client facing design work versus using DeepSeek as your workhorse for high volume jobs, plus local models through Ollama. Great fit if you want full control of your coding agent without paying for the harness. *Links* 🐳 DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/ ☁️ Claude: https://claude.ai/ 📁 GitHub: https://github.com/ 🔀 OpenRouter: https://openrouter.ai/ 💬 ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ ⚡ Hermes: https://nousresearch.com/ 🔌 Zapier: https://bit.ly/4pJhh0K 🦙 Ollama: https://ollama.com/ ⌚️ *Stamps:* 0:00 - The Deepseek Harness Explained 0:35 - Brain vs Body Mental Model 0:56 - Why This Changes Everything 1:33 - Any Model, Zero Cost 2:14 - Get It Running Now 2:34 - Your Harness Is Live 3:06 - Build A Memory Tool 4:00 - Own Your Intelligence Layer 4:13 - Beautiful UI From Scratch 4:53 - 95% Power, Fraction Of Cost 5:48 - Memory Layer Working Live 6:02 - Beyond Chatbot: Real Tools 6:16 - Email Integration Demo 6:35 - Zapier As Your Auth Layer 7:16 - Draft Email From Scratch 7:31 - Modes That Shape Your Agent 8:03 - Skills Catalog Unlocked 8:17 - Email Sent, Budapest Described 8:25 - Deepseek vs Claude: Choose Right 9:06 - When Deepseek Wins 9:35 - Your Workhorse Model Strategy 10:36 - Your Top Questions Answered 11:22 - What's Next Learn how to set up the free open source DeepSeek harness as a Claude Code alternative, run any AI model like DeepSeek V4 Flash through OpenRouter or Ollama, and connect Zapier to build a real AI coding agent for $0. #DeepSeek #ClaudeCode #AICoding #OpenSource #OpenRouter #AIAgents
