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thomaspaulmannyesterday at 7:16 PM5 repliesview on HN

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 build a functioning synthesiser for the launch video. It works even with MIDI. - We’re about to cancel a team-wide subscription and replace it with a Glaze app.

Not everything is possible yet and sure more complex things need more prompts but you’ll be surprised what Glaze is capable of already. It’s day one…


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layer8yesterday at 8:41 PM

So… could I one-shot a Glaze competitor? ;)

More seriously, what do you believe your moat is here?

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Archit3chyesterday at 10:08 PM

> The sound agency build a functioning synthesiser for the launch video

Is it a real synth or license-washed Vital/Surge?

vintagedaveyesterday at 8:14 PM

This sounds promising. If I may take advantage of you being here, what language does it write in? Does it build genuine native apps (Cocoa, WinAPI or WinUI, etc) or Electron?

The FAQ was light on technical details. But I am someone keen to read all the technical details :)

elxryesterday at 9:48 PM

> You get a working app one-shotted pretty much all the time.

Can you one-shot a raycast alternative with this? This'll be the real test.

gmsyesterday at 7:24 PM

Does it generate native apps, or just Electron?