[HN Gopher] Glaze by Raycast
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       Glaze by Raycast
        
       Author : romac
       Score  : 176 points
       Date   : 2026-03-04 13:21 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.glazeapp.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.glazeapp.com)
        
       | lorenzoguerra wrote:
       | 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
        
         | thomaspaulmann wrote:
         | I feel you! We thought about this and all apps will have a
         | permission model. So you can limit it to specific file disk
         | locations, domains for network requests, and so on.
        
           | s__s wrote:
           | Can you explain how the permission model works?
        
           | ftchd wrote:
           | I don't see how this solves the issue, something bad can
           | happen regardless of permission granularity, no?
           | 
           | Definitely a good initiative though. I like how coding
           | harnesses do it, showing you the exact command that would
           | run, or running it in a sandbox first.
        
       | mcjiggerlog wrote:
       | This looks super fun, actually.
       | 
       | I wonder what it is actually building. Tauri apps, maybe?
        
         | rockwotj wrote:
         | 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
        
           | rockwotj wrote:
           | Or it's compiled in the cloud?
        
         | coffeebeqn wrote:
         | Electron I bet
        
       | Bishonen88 wrote:
       | 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) ...
        
         | xd1936 wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | alxndr13 wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | wbobeirne wrote:
         | Reading what they're offering, the stand-out to me is making
         | publishing the applications easy for others on your team to
         | use. That would he a pain point for non technical users.
        
           | Bishonen88 wrote:
           | I get your point. But if sharing with others is a vital part
           | of this, then ... they'd be better off sticking to web apps
           | instead :) "Create with glaze, hit publish and we'll give you
           | an url".
           | 
           | Even though they portray some of the benefits of this app as
           | unique to desktop apps, they're not (e.g. storing data on
           | device, offline mode etc.).
           | 
           | Am not a hater. Love Raycast. Saw the post and opened the
           | link intrigued what they came up with and was somewhat
           | disappointed tbh. Good luck to them anyway!
        
         | mcintyre1994 wrote:
         | I think their value add if you're comfortable with Claude Code
         | is probably some nice tooling for the packaging, and they
         | probably sign apps for you too?
        
       | foo4u wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | mrklol wrote:
         | Same thought I had while reading, don't really see a big
         | advantage here.
        
         | kylehotchkiss wrote:
         | Thank you for your service.
         | 
         | We need more of you. Not more electron slop.
        
         | dewey wrote:
         | I'm also just working on my first iOS Swift app (Mostly for
         | myself, don't know yet if I'll make it public as it's just a
         | clone of Swarm / Gowalla but based on OpenStreetMap data) and
         | it works really well with Claude Code.
         | 
         | I'm not using the Xcode integration and so there's still some
         | rough parts where build errors show up in Xcode and I then have
         | to paste them into my Terminal.
         | 
         | When you are used to backend work...it's kinda fun to see an
         | app come to life and run on your phone though.
        
           | transitorykris wrote:
           | xcode's new AI using claude is not performing as well as
           | claude code for me. I've tried a couple times and quickly
           | fall back to using vscode with xcode sitting in a window
           | beside. I don't mind the copypaste of warnings and errors
           | since my workflow is less vibe and more directed/iterative.
        
           | marcelp_ wrote:
           | why are you using the xcode UI at all? you can ask claude to
           | run the build via CLI, which will return build errors that
           | claude can read and fix itself until it works. it can even
           | take screenshots from the simulator to debug the app UI.
        
       | orliesaurus wrote:
       | they did it again, glad I am on Mac, congrats raycast
        
       | prodigycorp wrote:
       | 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
       | writing good desktop UIs.
       | 
       | Raycast's only edge here seems to be the fact that they are
       | obviously very good at Mac app development and probably have
       | impeccable skills/documentation for building them.
       | 
       | Taking a step back, it's pretty clear that Raycast is angling for
       | an Apple acquisition here with this play. If I'm Apple, the
       | reason to buy a product/team like this is a no-brainer.
        
         | rafram wrote:
         | > Taking a step back, it's pretty clear that Raycast is angling
         | for an Apple acquisition here with this play.
         | 
         | No kidding, although I think Apple would only be interested if
         | it uses SwiftUI. (The marketing page doesn't say. Raycast
         | itself uses React + Node for extensions, but its React
         | components render to native widgets.)
        
         | mgrandl wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | freetonik wrote:
         | >Taking a step back, it's pretty clear that Raycast is angling
         | for an Apple acquisition here with this play.
         | 
         | Raycast recently made a Windows version. So perhaps they aren't
         | as Apple-centric.
        
         | mcintyre1994 wrote:
         | A similar product in the mobile space is Rork - I haven't used
         | it but I've seen it on twitter a bit. I definitely wouldn't be
         | surprised to see Apple acquire one of them.
        
       | twalichiewicz wrote:
       | 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 different category
       | entirely._
       | 
       | Pretty sure modern web apps can do all of those (sans menu bar).
       | (If anything they do background processes better since you can
       | send a very long task off to a server and shut off your computer,
       | come back later and pick up where you left off.)
       | 
       | Also, as others mentioned, this just seems like Claude Code with
       | extra steps, unless they managed to nail some sort of design
       | standard enforcement they feel is better than what most people
       | can get out of it.
       | 
       | The quick publishing is kind of nice, but it immediately made me
       | think it would be more interesting to have a way to quickly remix
       | other people's creations, similar to the Figma Community tab: you
       | can take someone else's work, break it apart to see how it works,
       | then tweak it how you want it.
        
         | varun_ch wrote:
         | A big thing would be API requests/browser automation. Web apps
         | can't do that without a backend proxy due to CORS
        
         | nateb2022 wrote:
         | > Also, as others mentioned, this just seems like Claude Code
         | with extra steps, unless they managed to nail some sort of
         | design standard enforcement they feel is better than what most
         | people can get out of it.
         | 
         | My feeling is that it's intended for a less-technical audience
         | than Claude Code.
        
           | twalichiewicz wrote:
           | I can certainly see that. If they really did manage to make
           | some really effective design tooling, would be a great
           | candidate for an MCP server.
        
         | tshaddox wrote:
         | > Also, as others mentioned, this just seems like Claude Code
         | with extra steps, unless they managed to nail some sort of
         | design standard enforcement they feel is better than what most
         | people can get out of it.
         | 
         | Well yeah, isn't that criticism we've had every LLM wrapper for
         | years now? "Show me the prompt!" But that doesn't mean these
         | types of products are useless.
        
         | jeroenhd wrote:
         | > Pretty sure modern web apps can do all of those
         | 
         | If you're on Chrome and give them permission, or stuff them
         | into Electron and friends, they can. The workflow isn't as
         | smooth as with native applications, though.
         | 
         | On the other hand, the web browser does protect you from some
         | of the risks this essentially "trust me bro" curl2bash-as-a-
         | service product inherently comes with.
        
         | pelagicAustral wrote:
         | 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.
        
           | thewebguyd wrote:
           | > I don't think we are anywhere near a tool like this for
           | native, but that's a lost battle anyway.
           | 
           | I hope it's not a lost battle, tbh. I was hoping with AI &
           | Vibe Coding we'd see sort of a resurgence of native first
           | desktop apps, but so far it's just all been a continuation of
           | the web app & web tech hegemony.
           | 
           | Maybe not for Windows as their native GUI story is a lost
           | cause now, but for sure macOS and I had hopes of it leading
           | to a renaissance of desktop linux apps in GTK instead of
           | electron, but that (the Linux) community seems to be hostile
           | to any AI generated code at all for now.
        
             | pelagicAustral wrote:
             | Well, to be fair, I do have an experience working on a
             | Windows Forms app from scratch. App connects to a very
             | specific scanner via customs drivers and makes use of a
             | remote API for data tasks. The app works, it's stable, but
             | I'm not going to lie, AI assisted coding for this
             | particular stack does require a very large amount of
             | nurturing, it is just not the same experience you get with
             | web apps. Nevertheless, it did it.
        
               | thewebguyd wrote:
               | Makes sense. There's plenty of freely available code and
               | data online for using web tech. Any number of free online
               | bootcamps spawned in the mid 2010s are full of "Become a
               | React developer in 6 months" type of content.
               | 
               | Native, especially on Windows and macOS, have been the
               | domain of proprietary apps there's not much code outside
               | of tutorials online to train a model on outside of
               | official documentation.
               | 
               | I made a couple of small menu bar utilities for mac using
               | Gemini, and it was OK at best. Kept wanting to use
               | deprecated APIs, but with a lot of handholding I got them
               | to work.
               | 
               | Would be neat to see Apple put out their own model
               | specifically for Swift/SwiftUI
        
             | elxr wrote:
             | I have been seeing more and more native desktop apps in the
             | past few months (octarine for instance), but most of them
             | would've honestly been better off as web-apps, or at least
             | a polished electron app.
             | 
             | > seems to be hostile to any AI generated code at all for
             | now.
             | 
             | Because the majority of vibe-coded apps are low effort.
        
           | mcintyre1994 wrote:
           | They say they're targeting Mac only for now, so it could be
           | native code, or they could just have not tested/refined their
           | prompt for other platforms yet.
           | 
           | > This was never the case for the desktop tools I mentioned.
           | 
           | I'd be curious how well Claude Code works for a native Swift
           | app on macOS, if that's the platform you're on. I've found it
           | extremely good at iOS apps so my guess is it would be equally
           | good at building a native macOS app with the same stack.
        
             | Ronsenshi wrote:
             | I've tried using Codex and ChatGPT while working on a small
             | SwiftUI app. It's not very good when it comes to newer APIs
             | and features - I imagine due to lack of data about these
             | things. Very often it would rather push something AppKit-
             | based instead of SwiftUI.
             | 
             | It works, but feels really janky and messy.
             | 
             | I had one very annoying bug with file export API where
             | extra view on export window would appear with a delay. No
             | matter what I tried it didn't manage to fix it. Instead it
             | would go on to try and completely rewrite whole file export
             | class in various ways... which still didn't work as it
             | claimed it would. Ended up fixing it manually by caching
             | instance view locally.
        
           | rev_vehicle wrote:
           | I've had a totally different experience. I've coded 3
           | different Tauri apps and 1 Wails app with Claude Code and it
           | was some of the easiest work I've done with AI assisted
           | coding. That said, the local features that Rust is handling
           | in the Tauri app is not anything heavy, just moving files
           | around, some regex matching, and some SQLite stuff. All of
           | the headache I had in these apps was the React frontends and
           | Node issues. The Rust features all worked pretty much first
           | try every time.
        
           | azinman2 wrote:
           | Why not use SwiftUI or whatever is native to the platform?
        
         | mcintyre1994 wrote:
         | > If anything they do background processes better since you can
         | send a very long task off to a server and shut off your
         | computer, come back later and pick up where you left off.
         | 
         | I think it's fair to say that's a benefit of web apps over
         | native apps in many cases. But for the kind of business app use
         | case they're talking about, it's also a tradeoff. I can imagine
         | a lot of business apps where you don't want to send the data to
         | the server of a Replit etc. and doing all the processing local
         | is a benefit.
        
         | general_reveal wrote:
         | You mean "fork" other apps.
        
       | Fervicus wrote:
       | "Insecure apps, reimagined by you"
        
       | codeptualize wrote:
       | No mention of security.. remarkable
        
         | mattcantstop wrote:
         | Makes sense to me. It's a marketing page. Know your audience.
        
         | Hamuko wrote:
         | The "S" in "Glaze" stands for "security".
        
         | elxr wrote:
         | They'd need another 30 full time devs for that.
        
       | smusamashah wrote:
       | It will be awesome if these were native apps instead of
       | JavaScript apps. It's not mentioned anywhere explicitly that
       | these are native.
        
       | mglvsky wrote:
       | what about barebone/starter desktop app that can be modified
       | itself by prompts?
       | 
       | that's would be Electron app, but without unneeded bloat
        
       | bpavuk wrote:
       | 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 way to install build tools on Windows
       | through terminal.
       | 
       | 2. what is going to be distributed? source code itself or actual
       | binaries? and what will the security model of Glaze store be?
       | same as extensions, "everything is open-source and undergoes
       | Raycast's and community review"?
       | 
       | 3. Glaze is going to come to Windows and Linux, if we trust the
       | Q&A section at the end. what will Glaze build upon? separate
       | frameworks and languages for each platform or something multi-
       | platform [1] like Tauri or Kotlin Multiplatform? or are you going
       | to copy the Raycast extension model - just run Node, expose some
       | platform integration, and parse React render trees through "Glaze
       | Runtime"? I've been working on a bug in Vicinae [2][3], and I've
       | seen this model in action. it's very hard to make it perform
       | well, but all it takes to achieve native look and feel is to just
       | map React render trees to whatever system component OS offers.
       | (in Vicinae's case, it's Qt. bet that it's done with SwiftUI on
       | macOS and WinUI 3 on Windows.)
       | 
       | [1]: there is a difference between "cross-platform" and "multi-
       | platform". "cross-platform" means "I behave equally across
       | platforms and have no awareness of native look and feel" (e.g.
       | Electron, Unity, Flutter), while "multi-platform" means "I can
       | adapt across platforms to the degree you need" (e.g. C/C++, Rust,
       | KMP)
       | 
       | [2]: https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae
       | 
       | [3]: https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae/pull/1158
        
       | robinhood wrote:
       | Impressive feat. Definitely not for me though, and for sure I
       | won't be there to debug one of these when my parents will call me
       | because it broke their computers.
        
       | sporksmith wrote:
       | 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
        
         | giraffe_lady wrote:
         | Maybe a quietly dissenting PM snuck it by. If so, nice.
        
         | titanomachy wrote:
         | "Heavy use" to the point where it might even be more common
         | than the older senses of "cover with icing" or "install
         | windows".
        
         | ultropolis wrote:
         | 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?).
        
           | peyton wrote:
           | 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
        
           | apt-apt-apt-apt wrote:
           | It's worse than that, the glaze is only the by-product of the
           | primary action in question.
        
           | __float wrote:
           | While I don't think the new meaning is incredibly widespread
           | yet, it's not uncommon for words to change meaning over time.
           | I wouldn't be surprised if a decade or two from now, the
           | original meaning has been mostly forgotten.
        
         | jsheard wrote:
         | > https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/
         | 
         | Kids these days are always saying "snao2d" and "foRanr"
        
           | autoexec wrote:
           | > Written By Lucas Gray
           | 
           | There is no way a human wrote that page. If Lucas Gray even
           | exists, he should probably reconsider that last image, and
           | his life more generally.
        
         | Cthulhu_ wrote:
         | Related, "glass" or "glassing" can also refer to stabbing
         | someone in the face with broken glass or decimating a world in
         | nuclear holocaust.
        
       | sangeeth96 wrote:
       | Looking forward to trying this out and see how this differs from
       | more manual approaches. One thing that stands out is an included
       | store for public/private distribution -- that's super convenient
       | given the cumbersome (and maybe, horrific) process that is the
       | app store submission.
        
       | freetonik wrote:
       | Ironically, there's another project named Glaze, that aims to
       | "protect artists from generative AI"
       | (https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/)
        
         | ZeWaka wrote:
         | There's also a window(s) tiling manager named Glaze that's
         | pretty popular: https://github.com/glzr-io/glazewm
        
       | geooff_ wrote:
       | This is just a landing page. There's not even any decent product
       | specs. Nothing technical. How does this make front page of hacker
       | news?
        
       | _pdp_ wrote:
       | How many apps do you really need that are not already done -
       | perhaps even better?
        
         | hombre_fatal wrote:
         | 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 replace, and I can make changes any time I want.
         | That's far better than using someone else's software and giving
         | it privileged access to my machine.
         | 
         | Also, perhaps the best point is that so much software is junk
         | that is obsoleted by someone with better UX intuitions even if
         | they are vibe-coding it. Being written by hand by an engineer
         | means basically nothing when it comes to "is this a good app?"
         | Which is why product-minded people are the biggest winners in
         | the new AI era.
        
           | ukuina wrote:
           | Neat! What does the stack look like?
        
         | WarmWash wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | brandonmenc wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | desantisll wrote:
         | how many problems do you have unsolved?
        
         | elxr wrote:
         | I can think of at least 1 major improvement to so many of the
         | apps I use day to day.
         | 
         | Desktop software is nowhere near good enough to consider random
         | usecases "already done". Not that glaze looks particularly
         | special, but there's so many improvements the desktop
         | experience begs for.
         | 
         | An easy to use cross-platform GUI builder for one. Even
         | something as basic as a calendar app doesn't have a clear
         | obvious winner today.
        
       | jFriedensreich wrote:
       | Just what absolutely no one needed: another locked down and non
       | web platform with horrific security that tries to digitally
       | enslave people just the tiniest level above what they can accept
       | now. I don't see any future where raycast can survive and i would
       | say its a good thing.
        
         | adamtaylor_13 wrote:
         | I understand some of the skepticism towards this product, but
         | are you saying this will somehow negatively impact Raycast (the
         | company)? Raycast the tool is incredibly useful, so I'm
         | surprised to see this sentiment.
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | There seem to be more AI app building platforms than actual apps
       | being built these days.
        
       | ljlolel wrote:
       | Getting closer to ClaudeVM https://jperla.com/blog/claude-
       | electron-not-claudevm
        
       | kneel25 wrote:
       | So it looks like they're creating their own App Store within the
       | app? At least it's kept separate from official apps. But also how
       | is that not a security nightmare Apple won't allow?
        
       | dcchambers wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | dpweb wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | HaloZero wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | cdrnsf wrote:
       | I can't imagine trusting these apps with access to my camera,
       | file system or any other sensitive permissions.
        
       | b450 wrote:
       | Might sound like a rube here, but: is agentic development really
       | this good at novel UIs? The video shows a sort of cassette tape
       | music player, and a fancy looking audio visualizer/equalizer
       | thing. I'm well aware agents are very good at boilerplate UIs,
       | but I wouldn't expect them to be able to one-shot novel, dynamic
       | UI elements like this. I've had Claude attempt some SVG
       | animations and the results were very crude. That was a year or so
       | ago though. Are there established ways of letting agents iterate
       | on UIs, i.e. having them visually verify the visual design and
       | interactions?
        
       | break_the_bank wrote:
       | It is interesting how so many different companies end up
       | converging to some sort of AI coding.
       | 
       | Raycast -> Glaze AirTable -> Lovable Competitor Retool -> Lovable
       | Competitor
       | 
       | Even those early in the journey are converging towards coding.
        
       | kylehotchkiss wrote:
       | Is this just shitting out electron crap?
        
       | Mongoose wrote:
       | Not to be a curmudgeon, but why are they spending time on this?
       | As an enthusiastic Raycast user, I would prefer to see them focus
       | on making Raycast better, not finding new ways to jump on the AI
       | bandwagon.
        
         | femiagbabiaka wrote:
         | the first scenario that came to mind is that they built it for
         | themselves and then open sourced it
        
         | lintimes wrote:
         | I had the same reaction. They've had Raycast releases paused
         | for some time to focus on large feature improvements, but I
         | wondered if it was partly for this.
        
         | mamaluigie wrote:
         | Welp this is what happens when the USA is spending more into
         | this than it did in the space race comparatively. Space race we
         | got to the moon, the AI output has yet to show profit from
         | businesses other than funding the input.
        
       | mabedan wrote:
       | I don't understand how these type of projects are still tried and
       | get any traction... anyone who has tried them will 100% know it
       | won't go beyond a happy path demo. If they want to seriously
       | use/publish the app beyond playing around, it'll require weeks of
       | iteration via AI, which will cost you an arm and a leg in tokens.
        
         | caro_kann wrote:
         | I haven't used v0 or replit before, I have the same feelings as
         | you. But I've been thinking about building macOS apps for my
         | personal use for a long time now. Also I'm a long time Raycast
         | user. I have a bias here, so I've joined the waitlist, I can't
         | be sure until I try, right?
        
           | ricketycricket wrote:
           | Just build Mac apps then. Claude Code can help you whip up
           | real native apps without any Glaze dependencies just fine.
           | I've built 4 Mac and iOS apps in the last 6 months for my own
           | use. I even have my own HN app for iOS and Mac.
        
         | thomaspaulmann wrote:
         | 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...
        
           | gms wrote:
           | Does it generate native apps, or just Electron?
        
           | vintagedave wrote:
           | 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 :)
        
           | layer8 wrote:
           | So... could I one-shot a Glaze competitor? ;)
           | 
           | More seriously, what do you believe your moat is here?
        
             | general_reveal wrote:
             | There will probably be a few of these like TextEditors. I
             | already built this and have features in mind that I'm not
             | sure Glaze is thinking of.
        
           | elxr wrote:
           | > 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.
        
           | Archit3ch wrote:
           | > The sound agency build a functioning synthesiser for the
           | launch video
           | 
           | Is it a real synth or license-washed Vital/Surge?
        
       | etchalon wrote:
       | Vibe-coding desktop apps is a much, much better solution for the
       | vast majority of one-off tools most users want to build.
        
       | Imnimo wrote:
       | My metric for this kind of stuff is: Did Glaze build the Glaze
       | app?
        
       | 1propionyl wrote:
       | No thanks.
       | 
       | As an interesting counter-proposal to wasting time with this...
       | look for older less popular/downloaded/featureful apps written by
       | people for their own education, edification and enjoyment.
       | 
       | They may not work the way you wish they would, but you can learn
       | a lot from them, be inspired by them, and leave feedback.
       | 
       | That's how you actually encourage more people to get started and
       | continue making their own tools.
        
       | imfing wrote:
       | I like the idea!
       | 
       | Similar to how openclaw is exploring a "personal agent" that runs
       | on your computer, this feels like a step toward personal software
       | - tools that live locally, understand the context, and adapt to
       | how we actually work.
       | 
       | Excited to see how this evolves, feels like an interesting
       | direction.
        
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