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Michael Seibel

Raycast API and Store - Supercharged productivity with shareable custom extensions

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Raycast is the command center for all your tools and workflows. With the new Extensions API you can build and share powerful productivity tools in no time. Supercharge your productivity by installing community extensions from the Store in one click.

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Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
Hey all 👋 Thomas from the Raycast Team here. We’re super excited to open up our API and Store to everyone and share it with the PH community today. Thanks Michael for the hunt! We launched Raycast a year ago on Product Hunt. Since then we shipped a ton of features to save you time on everyday tasks: Quicklinks let you seamlessly navigate the web and your computer. Snippets speed up your writing by inserting frequently used text. Clipboard History makes copied content searchable. Window management keeps your desktop tidy. The list goes on and on. These features made Raycast an indispensable tool for thousands of developers and designers. Today, we're thrilled to release our platform for productivity tools and making Raycast extendable. Our API lets developers build extensions with React and TypeScript in no time. They can tap into the massive npm ecosystem to simplify their daily workflows. We wanted to create an end-to-end experience. With our Store, everybody can discover and share their extensions. Our community jumped on the platform during the beta phase of the platform and built more than 100 extensions already, including Figma file search, home automation and GitLab integration. We can't wait to see what you're gonna build with our API. Also, I'm super happy to answer any questions!
Rishi Mohan
Raycast is one of my favorite macOS apps now, been using it since early days and love it, really helpful for productivity. Thomas and Raycast team is doing superb job!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@qaplen Thanks a ton! Happy you like it.
Raphael Schaad
Congrats on launch! I've yet to check out the extensions, but I have switched from Alfred to Raycast.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@raphaelschaad Welcome to the club. There is also a Twitter extension now, so you can get your tweets out even quicker ;-)
Raphael Schaad
@thomaspaulmann Nice! Cron extension 🔥
SENTINELITE
@thomaspaulmann @raphaelschaad Yes!!!! Can't wait to get my hands on the extension! A literal match made in heaven! Gah. 💖
Ryan
@thomaspaulmann @raphaelschaad looking forward to a Cron extension? or is it already available?
Thiago Holanda
Definitely I don't remember how I saw Raycast for the first time on Twitter, but I do remember when I started to talk to @thomaspaulmann on Twitter and I got my invitation to test Raycast. Back then, not even Script Commands was released (that version if I can recall was 0.29), then I joined the Slack together with a really small amount of people. This product is something I guess I could say that I'm following since the very beginning and I am very proud of the whole team for such achievement. For those folks, the sky is not the limit and really glad there's no limit for them. They deserve everything they have, because they fought hard for it. Thank you @thomaspaulmann, @petr_nikolaev and also the rest of the team for such amazing work. Count on me folks, I will be there with and for you!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@petr_nikolaev @tholanda Well, what should I say. You've been so long with us and helped us shape the app, the community and script commands to a state that we couldn't have done it alone. It's a special moment today to put the next-gen platform of productivity tools out there and I know that you'll be front and center helping us getting it to folks. Thank you so much for all your contributions from the entire team.
Mehdi Djabri
I've been using Raycast daily for more than a year and I love how much time and energy I save in my daily tasks with it. Kudos team Raycast 💪
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@mehdidjabri Amazing to hear how long you've stayed with us. Now, you should save even more time and energy with every extension you install from the Store (or build yourself).
Mehdi Djabri
@thomaspaulmann yes extensions are great, I love to use the Linear and Figma ones. I look forward to publish our own Iteration X extension on the Raycast store soon after we launch.
Arnob Mukherjee
Congratulations on the launch, can't wait to use it soon cc: @nshntarora 🚀
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
Alex Miller
How does it compare to Alfred + Powerpack?
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@fotoflo In short: Easier to use, more features for free, more powerful with a React + TypeScript API, sharing extensions via our Store and links and soon ready to use in your team setup.
Alex Miller
@thomaspaulmann OK I want to try it. I'm an Alfred super user and have TONS of important shortcuts (and even scripts I wrote) for alfred... Is there a good way to import them?
Leo Selie
@fotoflo @thomaspaulmann I was also looking for a comparison between Alfred and Raycast. Thanks! I would also love to know if there is some kind of migration service available (or in the future) to move workflows to Raycast?
Tanguy Le Stradic
Congrats on building such an awesome product folks! It's hard to imagine using my Mac without launching Raycast 🤘🏻
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@tanguy1 Thanks and happy to have you on this journey for a while!!!
Jose Eduardo Saura
This product is amazing honestly. From seeing your calendar writing two letters, to see your open PR with 3 letters, plus all the customization. This tool is unstoppable imo
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@jose_eduardo_saura So nice phrased! I get a boost of enjoyment myself whenever I join a meeting with just a hotkey. Great you like it as well. Off to many more extensions.
Grand
I've been using it for a few months, and this is like the best app ever!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
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