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Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by WarmWash »

_pdp_ wrote: post #40

How many apps do you really need that are not already done - perhaps even better?

The problem that software suffers from is that every app/program tries to cover as many bases and use cases as possible in a single package. Obviously it's what you want to do if you want to maximize reach/customers.

Vibe apps are different. They do exactly what you want, exactly the way you want it done. No more downloading an app that is mysteriously 180MB and requires watching a youtube video to learn how to make it change your background every 5 minutes to different dog pictures.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by peyton »

ultropolis wrote: post #49
sporksmith wrote: post #27

I thought this must be a joke at first. "Glaze" is in pretty heavy use as recent slang for "when someone excessively praises another person in a way that feels over-the-top." https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ ie the annoying way that LLMs interact with users

It's so much worse. Your link fails to mention that the "Glaze" in question is a cough bodily fluid. Yes that one. Have I seen politicians use "glaze" recently? Yes. Gross. On the other hand it is kind of the perfect name for Yet Another AI Website Maker (YAAWM?).

Nah it’s from Dunkin Donuts [1].

> First you said all you want is love and affection / Let me be your angel and I'll be your protection / … / Thought I was a donut, you tried to glaze me

> I ain’t gotta tell you I had a Dunkin' Donuts fetish back in the day. I used to get a dozen donuts every day, man. So it was one of the things that was on my mind

[1]: https://genius.com/1716467

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by dcchambers »

I love Raycast. I would probably be called a "power user" - I use it all day long and have a fairly sophisticated and customized configuration and set of workflows. Raycast is actually one of the primary things keeping me on MacOS these days (please release a Linux version!).

I am worried this is the start of them trying to diversify their product offering because revenue has stalled in the core Raycast product and VC demands more returns. I don't want to be jaded, but history teaches me to be. Here's hoping that Raycast itself is still a focus for the company.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by pelagicAustral »

twalichiewicz wrote: post #14

It's certainly a nice promotional website. My first thought was, "So, Replit and ilk?", seems they expected that comparison: > How is Glaze different from Lovable, Replit, or v0? > Those tools build for the browser. Glaze builds for your desktop. That means your apps can access your file system, your camera, keyboard shortcuts, menu bar integration, and background processes. Things a web app can’t do. It’s a differen…

I took a few shots at building desktop apps with Tauri, Wails and Electron using Claude Code, and the results were not very good at all. In fact, they were by far the worst results I've gotten with the tool. I can easily clone one of my boilerplate repos in Rails, or Django and prompt away, and the results are consistently good, as in, functional MVP in a few hours. This was never the case for the desktop tools I mentioned.

This looks like a highly specialized tool for desktop that actually works. I watch the demo and I am assuming the apps are actually made with some kind of technology a la Tauri, or Electron, thus making the apps cross-platform.

I don't think we are anywhere near a tool like this for native, but that's a lost battle anyway.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by brandonmenc »

_pdp_ wrote: post #40

How many apps do you really need that are not already done - perhaps even better?

Literally hundreds.

In the DOS days, I would have whipped them up in BASIC. This was standard practice for PC users who were not "software engineers" by trade.

The complication of PCs over the past 30+ years have robbed regular users of this ability.

Tools like this close the gap, and that's awesome.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by dpweb »

Have had good results on MacOS just using codex (or your cli of choice).

Have it create a swift app, unless extended permissions are needed it can compile withouy going into xcode.

Few simple util apps, disk cleaner, clipboard manager. Worked pretty well.

Had better results than using xcode's built in ai extension.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by HaloZero »

But can it manage external libraries or use only the existing sdk? I had a non tech friend run into an issue recently where she wanted to automate a pdf action. Eventually I realized she needed to run homebrew and install a library. Curious if this actually manages that kind of process.

Re: Glaze by Raycast

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Post by ukuina »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #44
_pdp_ wrote: post #40

How many apps do you really need that are not already done - perhaps even better?

I've vibe coded all sorts of apps for my macbook. A better replacement to iStat Menus. A local-only voice to text whisper.cpp transcriber I can globally use while holding ctrl-semicolon. A menubar app that manages blocky and can easily turn it off or change dns. A tool like hammerspoon but I configure it via nix-darwin and it has no cruft. All of these are apps that use 30MB memory and are better than the apps they r…

Neat! What does the stack look like?
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