Glaze by Raycast

Re:Glaze by Raycast by thomaspaulmann on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:16PM (#47252406)

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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Re:Glaze by Raycast by layer8 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:41PM (#47253482)

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

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

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by general_reveal on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:04PM (#47253799)

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.

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by lyime on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:14PM (#47255333)

Moat? Maybe they built something they wanted?

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by theturtletalks on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @07:40PM (#47256011)

They also plan on having their own app store where you publish these glaze apps and maybe they charge commission for paid apps down the line?

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by layer8 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:26PM (#47255454)

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

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by nsonha on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @06:38PM (#47255545)

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.

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by layer8 on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @09:35PM (#47256786)

This just means that the existing sales channel would be their moat. Which can be a valid argument, though I don't remember having heard of Raycast before, so it isn't obvious to me. I was interested in hearing what they see as their moat here.

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by vintagedave on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:14PM (#47253150)

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 :)

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by gms on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:24PM (#47252514)

Does it generate native apps, or just Electron?

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by lazerlapin on Saturday March 07, 2026 @05:54AM (#47286435)

I think electron

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by elxr on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:48PM (#47254396)

> 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.

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by Archit3ch on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @05:08PM (#47254635)

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

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

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by zombot on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:08AM (#47258114)

So is this self-hosted? Was this version of Glaze built with Glaze?

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Re:Glaze by Raycast by pftburger on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:41AM (#47258773)

Honestly Glaze is brilliant.

I assume there is an extensive set of rails for the agent to tie into. (Compare this to asking Claude to green fields an app. Do you use electron? How are notifications handled? Icons? Permissions?)

It springboard off Raycast’s teams feature so well it actually gives it a real reason to exist. You’re empowering the one systems thinker in the group to export their automations to the rest of the group in a way that’s proven to work: small apps that do one thing. (Big apps get complicated, become full time projects that distract from the task at hand)

Fig tried this but it was just for engineers, the value prop was missing, Glaze seems to get this right.

Very nicely done!

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