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Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by lyime »

layer8 wrote: post #100
thomaspaulmann wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Founder of Raycast here so obviously biased but you’ll be surprised. You get a working app one-shotted pretty much all the time. Sure if it is something more complex you might need a few more prompts. Just to give you some examples on what we’ve seen: - Our support team runs on Glaze apps to review Raycast extensions. It connects to GitHub, checks out code locally, gets realtime updates and so on. - The sound agency…

So… could I one-shot a Glaze competitor? ;) More seriously, what do you believe your moat is here?

Moat? Maybe they built something they wanted?

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

This is incredible, and I'm excited by this technology. I also feel like it's irresponsible to allow laypeople to potentially inject dangerous code into literal black box programs. This should come with a much clearer disclaimer that it could be dangerous to use it.

I get that we've all been running homebrew and npm and so on without auditing every package, but there, there was some semblance of a trust mechanism and distributed review if something went wrong.

Here we have totally unreviewed code running with no trust mechanism in place whatsoever.

No public releases, no audit trail, no versioned releases, no community eyes on anything.

Weird times

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by anentropic »

foo4u wrote: post #6

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.

Do you have a nice way to let it 'use the app' or receive visual feedback?

I imagine that would help the process a lot

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by danpalmer »

throw03172019 wrote: post #112

This is so far from Raycast’s core product offering, I’m confused. Pivot?

Raycast has always been chasing being a business process automation tool, not an app launcher. They have team subscriptions, team-wide distribution of automations in the launcher, so it feels like team-wide custom apps to automate further business processes is a natural extension of this.

Whether that's what you want from Raycast as an individual user or not though is a fair question. I was a heavy user, but I recently switched back to Alfred. I love both, and there are things I think Raycast does much better than Alfred, but ultimately I'm not the target market for Raycast and I was feeling for a year or so that I was swimming upstream on my usage of it.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

#116

Post by layer8 »

lyime wrote: post #111
layer8 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So… could I one-shot a Glaze competitor? ;) More seriously, what do you believe your moat is here?

Moat? Maybe they built something they wanted?

Sure, but from the FAQ, “Paid plans start at $20/month”.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by danpalmer »

bpavuk wrote: post #25

so many unknowns... 1. macOS and Windows require installation of Xcode and Visual Studio respectively, and if in Apple's case you kinda can install these tools headlessly and choose to install only the "build tools" package, Microsoft's creature is gonna daze and confuse you with a crap-ton of checkboxes and no easy "just install whatever is minimally needed to compile my code" button, and I don't recall if there is…

I think we can make assumptions for all of these. Raycast extensions aren't compiled code, and run within the Raycast runtime/engine. I'd bet that this is exactly the same.

In many ways that's the same as Chrome apps, they have no code, they're just the Chrome binary, so there aren't any code signing issues.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by nsonha »

layer8 wrote: post #100
thomaspaulmann wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Founder of Raycast here so obviously biased but you’ll be surprised. You get a working app one-shotted pretty much all the time. Sure if it is something more complex you might need a few more prompts. Just to give you some examples on what we’ve seen: - Our support team runs on Glaze apps to review Raycast extensions. It connects to GitHub, checks out code locally, gets realtime updates and so on. - The sound agency…

So… could I one-shot a Glaze competitor? ;) More seriously, what do you believe your moat is here?

Sales are about distribution, they have a channel. This "moat" thing matters to unestablished start-ups a lot more. We should apply context while copy pasting arguments.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

#120

Post by FelipeCortez »

mgrandl wrote: post #35
prodigycorp wrote: post #13

Someone please exfiltrate their prompts/skills so i can use these on Codex. I've have relative success building my own apps for mac using Codex but they're uglier than sin and dont seem to understand well how permissions work. Having antigravity is useful because Gemini 3.1 is pretty good at generating UI sugar. Claude 4.6 Opus provides nothing to write home about. Their shadcn looksmaxxing hasn't generalized to writ…

Raycast are not building Mac apps the apple way though. They are using react native and I am willing to bet that this does too.

I always thought it was native. You can write extensions using React, yes, but I was under the impression those got compiled to their internal Swift-based UI components
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