Glaze by Raycast

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Post by romac » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

Glaze by Raycast
glazeapp.com

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Post by grincek » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:38 PM UTC

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#3

Post by lorenzoguerra » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:41 PM UTC

I cannot bring myself to trust unreviewed software enough to install it on my own machine with arbitrary permissions. I understand the push for AI-generated websites, because the code running in my browser's sandbox is gonna have very limited permissions to do anything evil, but desktop apps are a completely different story

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Post by mcjiggerlog » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:42 PM UTC

This looks super fun, actually.

I wonder what it is actually building. Tauri apps, maybe?

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#5

Post by Bishonen88 » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:44 PM UTC

So, another wrapper around claude 4.6 for +xx% higher price? Using just claude code, one can do what glazeapp seems to aim for, no? "Beautiful by default" seems to be a system prompt akin to:

  Design Philosophy Create apps that feel premium, polished, and worthy of being featured on Dribbble's most popular shots. Every pixel matters. White space is your friend. Less is more, but what remains must be perfect.

  Visual Design Principles

  Color & Theming

  • Use sophisticated, limited color palettes (2-3 primary colors maximum) ...

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Post by foo4u » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:46 PM UTC

Claude Code is pretty good at Swift + Swift UI. I created and have been iterating on a menubar app for myself that I plan to share with a small team. I'd prefer to do this native than go through a 3rd party solution.

I do have prior experience developing for iOS but that was pre-swift.

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Post by xd1936 » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

Bishonen88 wrote: post #5

So, another wrapper around claude 4.6 for +xx% higher price? Using just claude code, one can do what glazeapp seems to aim for, no? "Beautiful by default" seems to be a system prompt akin to: Design Philosophy Create apps that feel premium, polished, and worthy of being featured on Dribbble's most popular shots. Every pixel matters. White space is your friend. Less is more, but what remains must be perfect. Visual De…

It looks like it's a lot of sensible defaults UI libraries to use, UX framework presets, etc, designed for an end user who doesn't know what Node or Electron or Rust or Tauri are. Plus, the page describes an app sharing mechanism as well built-in.

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Post by alxndr13 » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

Bishonen88 wrote: post #5

So, another wrapper around claude 4.6 for +xx% higher price? Using just claude code, one can do what glazeapp seems to aim for, no? "Beautiful by default" seems to be a system prompt akin to: Design Philosophy Create apps that feel premium, polished, and worthy of being featured on Dribbble's most popular shots. Every pixel matters. White space is your friend. Less is more, but what remains must be perfect. Visual De…

To be honest, but I would love to have some ecosystem around building apps which lets me share my custom apps with team members in my organization. Without having to take care of updating, provisioning, and distributing the app, etc.

even better if the apps are not electron bloated and mac-native.

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Post by orliesaurus » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

they did it again, glad I am on Mac, congrats raycast

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Post by rockwotj » Wed, Mar 04, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #4

This looks super fun, actually. I wonder what it is actually building. Tauri apps, maybe?

One would think it must otherwise there are all these issues with compiling, signing tc if they don’t have xcode installed etc. I would guess it’s some webview wrapper with a layer to expose desktop app functionality