Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

#1

Post by Destiner » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 7:13 PM UTC

Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS
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Re: Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

#2

Post by phildenhoff » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 8:49 PM UTC

I’m excited to see this grow. Raycast has been a big boon to me and having an open source competitor is great to see.

Have you considered making your plug-in API compatible with Raycast (if that’s possible)?

Re: Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

#3

Post by michaelmior » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 8:57 PM UTC

I would love to see something like this take off. Spotlight is great, but there is other functionality in Alfred I quite like. However, I find Alfred kind of expensive. Never heard of Raycast, but this prompted me to check it out and I'm quite liking it so far.

Re: Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

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Post by humbleferret » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 9:01 PM UTC

Aside from being open source and not mining user data, what benefits does this provide over Alfred/Raycast?

Re: Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

#5

Post by lagrange77 » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 9:13 PM UTC

Wow this is written with react-native?

Re: Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

#6

Post by gkoberger » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 10:37 PM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #3

I would love to see something like this take off. Spotlight is great, but there is other functionality in Alfred I quite like. However, I find Alfred kind of expensive. Never heard of Raycast, but this prompted me to check it out and I'm quite liking it so far.

If you like Alfred, you'll love Raycast. Never had a product completely replace another one so easily.

Re: Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

#7

Post by gabereiser » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 10:40 PM UTC

Something fishy with the dependency graph on this… How is this a dependency of peoples webdev school work?

Re: Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

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Post by yagiznizipli » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 10:56 PM UTC

gabereiser wrote: post #7

Something fishy with the dependency graph on this… How is this a dependency of peoples webdev school work?

I did not understand what you mean. Can you elaborate?

Re: Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

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Post by KMnO4 » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 10:57 PM UTC

gabereiser wrote: post #7

Something fishy with the dependency graph on this… How is this a dependency of peoples webdev school work?

Probably because students don’t know any better. The instructor was probably teaching them how to “npm install” and uses “sol” as an example.

If you check the package.lock file it’s listed in there for each of those projects.

Re: Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS

#10

Post by denysonique » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 11:05 PM UTC

It would be nice to see this ported to Linux desktop.