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Hi Product Hunt! 14 years ago, I created Homebrew with the purpose of creating a tool that made it easier to develop and use software. It changed the way millions of developers work. Now, a decade and change later, I’m doing it again. I have always firmly believed that when building, tooling should get out of your way because you have much more important work to be doing. My first attempt with brew, solved the problem of installing dependencies. Now, with tea, you will never have to think about dependencies again. In November we released tea/cli, an invisible yet powerful package manager for fans of the terminal. Today we’re releasing its graphical complement. tea/gui is A FREE, OPEN SOURCE app that makes it easy for anyone to visually browse and manage hundreds of software packages. 👆 One-click installs. Instead of searching for install instructions in cluttered docs. You can install any software package (and the required dependencies) with ONE click. 🆕 Easy updates. Get notifications the moment a new update is available. 🔄 Version management. Take control of the exact package versions you want to install—without breaking any other installed packages. 🧩 Seamless integration. tea packages don’t install to your system, yet magically are there when you need them. tea also creates sandboxed, developer environments with only the packages your project needs without any virtualization overhead. 🔐 More secure. Don’t break your system with sudo; tea installs everything to your home directory. 🌐 Open source. We’re seasoned believers in open source to our very core with 60+ active contributors and growing. We also have aspirational goals to finally fix the open source funding problem. Once and for all. Stay tuned for that! 💪 Robust. Underneath is the powerful, fast and battle-tested tea/cli. We are excited to build a world where developers can focus on their work instead of wrangling with dependencies. And we’re excited to launch on PH and hear what you think of the product because we are only getting started and much more is yet to come! Please provide us feedback: Open source software’s first and only priority is always its community!

This is awesome! I'm a longtime homebrew user — but love the idea of a faster, more secure replacement... especially one made by the creator of homebrew! I also appreciate the intention to find a way to support open source contributors just as the entire web lurches towards micropayments and remunerating the "plumbers and street sweepers" of the internet who thanklessly keep the place running.

Is this a replacement for brew, or can both coexist? How does it compare to brew – is it just brew with a UI? When I use brew I don't think about dependencies, I just `brew install firefox`, so now I can click a button that says "Install Firefox"? I'm trying to understand what's the breakthrough here, because brew "it just works", so why fix it?

Congratz on the launch folks! @mfts0 this is awesome!

I contributed to a lot of open source software, but tea is one of those rare projects that will last forever! Just like it's predecessor, Homebrew.

I guess I'm an early tea adopter and I prefer it to anything else. There's something so refreshing to having the same software stack on my macOS and Linux computers. It's so much easier than Docker for many tasks. This is the first community project that I've felt really good contributing to. Max and the tea team have been very responsive and it has been such a pleasure working with them.

To me as an open source founder tea looks very promising. Congrats on the launch and keep up the good work 🙌