Glaze by Raycast - Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI
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Glaze is the easiest way to go from an idea to a Mac app. Describe what you want, and it builds a real app that lives in your dock, launches instantly, works offline, and taps into the full power of your computer.
Software that's finally personal, shaped around you. From the makers of Raycast.
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Me appreciate the offline support. how will updates reach existing apps? Automatic syncing could keep everything current with little effort.
Raycast
@tousif_muhammad You can pinged for updates. And can connect your apps to databases or other synced resources. The sky is really the limit here... Over time we'll make things easier and have more out of the box.
I installed this app and created a menu bar app that displays the current weather conditions from my weather station in less than 15 minutes. It's great for those cases where you just want a simple local app on your machine and don;t want to fuss with more complicated tools.
Raycast
@manuel_castaneda1 that's it! No fuss, just what you need.
love that raycast is going after this, the "lives in your dock and works offline" part is the actual hard problem most AI app builders skip since they're all web output. does the generated app get real native access (menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, notifications) or is it more of a sandboxed webview wrapper under the hood?
Raycast
@omri_ben_shoham1 Bunch of stuff we wire up in a smart way.
Already a user and lover of Raycast for years, Glaze is such a nice tool! Already built a personal finance tracker and many ideas to come 🤗
Raycast
@edgar_renoud1 Perfect and both go nicely hand in hand. We have tons of ideas to make it connect even better.
How does app signing and all work?
Raycast
@divyansh_lohia All on your Mac. Benefit of having built the most popular on the Mac, we know the one or other thing 😜
the site-specific-browser-meets-generative-AI framing is a great way to put it. curious where the generated apps actually run — fully local on the Mac, or phoning home? that boundary is the whole ballgame for anything touching personal data.
Creating apps I can use instantly from just a few sentences is genuinely fun and kind of unbelievable. I've already built two apps I actually needed. Congrats on the launch!