Launched this week
Glaze by Raycast
Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI
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Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI
776 followers
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.
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.
Raycast
@sabber_ahamed Fully local on your Mac! So you can turn off wifi and they still work.
Foyer
The interesting constraint here is that "create a Mac app by chatting" covers a huge range of outcomes, from a quick menu bar utility that does one thing to something with persistent state and real UI. Curious where Glaze actually sits on that spectrum. Specifically, what happens when the generated app needs to store data between sessions or talk to an external API, does it scaffold something real that you can open in Xcode and extend, or is the output more like a self-contained script that lives and dies inside Raycast?
Raycast
@fberrez1 It's a standalone app. We do some nifty things to make all this work.
Raycast
@thys_beesman super automated. Prompts can be super short messages. Try it out!
Raycast
@thys_beesman just chat and the rest is fully automated. Super fun!
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.
Congrats on the launch! 🚀 What’s the most unexpected personal app someone has built with Glaze so far?
Raycast
@doganakbulut One of the first apps was a working synthesizer. We used it in our announcement video. That was pretty rad!
Been messing around with Glaze for a few days. The idea of describing an app and having it show up in my dock is pretty wild. Built a couple of tiny utilities for myself without writing a line of code. It handles connecting to Notion and GitHub surprisingly well. Still early, and complex apps might be a stretch, but for quick personal tools, it's genuinely fun and useful. Feels like the future of making software personal.
Raycast
@rick_borduur great to hear and connectors are super powerful.
This is an amazing app. Kudos to the team. Is there a plan for selling your own apps? Subscriptions?
Raycast
@ajbatac we have ideas around that we haven't fully explored. Could be subscriptions or some revenue share. But it would be the best incentive.