Love the concept & the idea! But why did go for MacOS / Swift instead of something cross-platform, such as Electron or Qt? Many devs outside of SV aren't using Macs.
Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks
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#42If this was accessible for Voice Over (the MacOS screen reader), blind developers would literally bless you for this. Half of those non-coding, web-based tools have huge accessibility problems, and an efficient and ergonomic interface would be a godsend. I can't test the accessibility aspect myself, now, as I don't own a Mac and I don't work in a team environment, but I can get you in touch with some people if you're…
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GitHub would be cool. I also use Slack and Clubhouse.
We have a lightweight extension for GitHub and more will come. What would you like to do with an extension for GitHub? Plan projects? Search code? Manage packages?
Re: Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks
#45I want something like this, which is why I more or less have the skeleton and something that at least approaches this idea, built organically through time using various utilities. Rofi, some shell scripts, etc. This 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 c…
It's existed for almost 40 years, and it's called emacs. If anyone questions emacs's ability to display incredibly useful UIs, try using magit[0]. Emacs sucks though, so I hope this comes out better!
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#46I expect to see more trends of the spotlight/alred/vscode command+p UX being used for different verticals.
Pretty meh on this use case, however, as devs are very difficult to sell to. I guess that's why you're focused on Jira and selling to enterprise.
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#48So like https://getcommande.com/ but focused on devs? I expect to see more trends of the spotlight/alred/vscode command+p UX being used for different verticals. Pretty meh on this use case, however, as devs are very difficult to sell to. I guess that's why you're focused on Jira and selling to enterprise.
Re: Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks
#49I 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.
Agreed! This name is poorly chosen. Most people have a general familiarity with what raycasting is about and will likely be confused by this usage.
Re: Launch HN: Raycast (YC W20) – CLI-inspired desktop app for non-coding tasks
#50Did you consider writing this as a CLI tool and using amazing auto-completion to give you discoverability and an advanced UI? I love the idea of having a tool that brings these systems together but would rather keep my focus on the command line since that's where I'm spending the majority of my time. raycast ticket create "Run database migration in production" raycast ticket create claim set_owner close raycast ticke…
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 asking for this.