The text rewriting on top of the page is incredibly annoying. It's too much text always changing and it doesn't really give any value. Product looks interesting though!
Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks
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#12Looks pretty cool too bad (or maybe, good) I don't use Jira.
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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#15It feels to me like something a motivated open source project could do well, too. What's the thing that will get people to pay for this? Slick team/enterprise features?
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#16I like the idea. My feedback: the name seems like it's going to confuse people. I almost skipped by this post when I saw the name at a glance because I'm not particularly interested in 3D graphics.
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#17This is a great idea in theory but much harder to do properly in practice. The idea is only really worthwhile as long as you can really extend it to a lot of things(no one cares about adding an Nth tool that can do GitHub and jira and one more thing).. and that's where this is going to go wrong.
There are reasons the interfaces to many tools that we use are as complicated as they are - it's needed to use the tool to its full effect. In order to achieve the same effect in this tool, you are doomed to constantly reimplement literally the entire interfaces of all the interesting services, just as CLI interfaces.. and that's just not gonna scale.
I'm not into all this YC stuff, but does the YC20 in the title means that someone has funded this idea?
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#18Is this integrated with the shell? Can I write shell scripts and python scripts to eg. grab today's entries from my gmail calendar, etc
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#20Looks interesting, excited to see where it goes. It feels to me like something a motivated open source project could do well, too. What's the thing that will get people to pay for this? Slick team/enterprise features?