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pitnikola

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About pitnikola

Co-founder & CTO at raycast.com, previously software engineer at Facebook & VK.com

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    Great stuff — thanks for the write-up! Do you mind sharing the Dockerfile you use for deploying?

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    Comment #27608802

    I'm the author of that bug and I can assure you that no code review would catch it.

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    Comment #25269977

    Raycast (YC W20) | Fully Remote, UTC timezone (London) ± 3 hours) | Full Time | https://raycast.com Raycast is a productivity tool for developers that makes it easy to control your…

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    Comment #25033668

    For Mac users, who's looking for deeper integration with GitHub, we've built an extension in Raycast [1] that allows you to see pull requests, issues, notifications, workflows, etc…

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    Comment #22486906

    Hi! Thanks for the heads up, could you please check if the website loads for you now?

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    Comment #22479324

    Nice, consistent design system and guidance is definitely something we want to have for the future platform. Thanks for pointing out to Shopify Polaris, looks very interesting!

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    Comment #22479303

    Fair enough! Hopefully it will not become a problem. In the end, it's just the name and we want to be defined by the product and its value rather than by the name itself. As to why…

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    Comment #22479235

    We want to open it up as soon as possible. The main reason behind the private beta is that integrations such as Jira are fairly complex due to different setups and a lot of customi…

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    Comment #22479117

    Yeah, Linear is a great tool and has an amazing UX, though as you correctly noticed they are building standalone issue tracking tool while we're building an app that sits on top of…

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    Comment #22477392

    Fair point and I absolutely agree, VSCode has some great integrations with other services and in fact solves similar problem of context switching. However there are quite a lot of …

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    Comment #22468571

    Good idea! That is definitely something we want to explore in the future (giving a CLI for Raycast integrations on top of main app functionality), especially if people will be aski…

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    Comment #22467859

    Our main differentiator from Alfred is provide much deeper and richer integrations with other services. One of the goals for Raycast is to keep you away from browser that can distr…

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    Comment #22467770

    As you correctly guessed, we're planning to provide features that would be useful to teams and larger organizations. Shared commands, integrations with custom internal tools, share…

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    Comment #22467713

    Giving ability to build custom commands with underlying scripts is something that we're going to tackle very soon! Do you have any examples for what kind of things you would want t…

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    Comment #22467688

    Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, it crossed our mind that some people familiar with 3D graphics term might get confused. I really hope that there are not too many people in our targe…

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    Comment #22467446

    Which integrations you would be interested in? We're going to be adding more integrations in the future, such as GitHub, GitLab, Slack, GSuite and so on, stay tuned.

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    Comment #22467411

    That's good feedback, we might consider simpler ways to show different possible use cases.

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    Comment #22467340

    Thanks for the kind words! We've built it ourselves, and to be honest neither of us is a web developer or designer so we're happy that it came together in the end.

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    Comment #22467295

    Thanks! Sign up for the private beta and we'll send you the build as soon as possible. The main reason for "private beta" mode is to make sure that complex integrations such as Jir…

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    Comment #22467211

    We have plans to provide API for building custom integrations as soon as we're ready to settle down with the framework. At the moment there's still a lot of experimentation so we'r…