Raycast

Today we're launching Glaze 💠 Create any desktop app in minutes by chatting with AI. Beautiful, powerful, and truly personal. Learn more on glazeapp.com Follow @glazeapp for updates.

tonight at silence please last event of the raycast tour come and get your @glazeapp invite

We got (well-deserved) heat from our users for missing the end-of-April date for Raycast v2. I wrote up what happened, why we’re rolling out the beta in stages, and what’s next: reddit.com/r/raycastapp/c… Apologies again to everyone who was waiting!

@thomaspaulmann 💬

AI Chat gets a major upgrade in the new @raycast: 🎨 Fresh new look 🥷 Built-in skills support ⚒️ Auto-loading extensions, MCPs, and skills 🖼️ Deeply integrated with macOS … plus plenty more.

coolest event in nyc about to start

🎹 Our last Windows release brings support for international keyboards, as well as improvements to the hotkey recorder. Check out the full list of new features and bug fixes in our changelog: raycast.com/changelog/wind…

It's now the end of April and a lot of you are expecting the new Raycast to be publicly available for download. We hear that so many of are eager to try it and we can't wait for you to experience the new Raycast. So many of you rely on it hundreds of times per day, so it's really important that it's as stable, performant, and delightful as it should be. For this reason we're rolling it out in stages. We've already sent many invites and are continuing to send them as fast as we can, while we address any issues that come up while the new version is in beta. Rest assured you'll all get your hands on it as soon as possible.

we havent talked much about ios, but its gotten so much better and more powerful since we launched here's all you need to know youtube.com/watch?v=x0UTza…

yesterday let's go again

@thomaspaulmann 🤩

Settings got a major overhaul in the new @raycast: 📐 Refreshed layout 🔍 Smarter search (soon) 🖼️ Updated icons 🎹 Brand-new hotkey recorder So good.

🔴 LIVE The New Standard: a talk with @raycast @cursor_ai and @vercel x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

See y’all tonight @cursor_ai x @raycast x @vercel

Being able to configure hotkeys directly from Root Search in the new @raycast is a small but mighty improvement. < 10s to create a hotkey for something I use countless times a day.

Some splash of colour 🎨

The New Standard The way we build products has changed. It did not happen gradually. It became undeniable the week everyone came back from winter break and opened their laptops to find that the tools, the teammates, and the expectations had all quietly moved on. I call this "the new standard." Here is what I think has actually changed. Smaller Teams, Bigger Output We built the first version of Glaze, our second product, with three people in a couple of weeks. There are a few more on it now, but the pattern is what matters. Small groups are shipping things that used to need an entire org. Some of our designers are now among our top code committers. That sentence would have sounded absurd two years ago, and it is the clearest signal I have that something has shifted. The line between who builds and who describes what should be built has mostly dissolved. PMs are prototyping the features they used to spec. Engineers are making design decisions they would have punted to someone else. Everyone on a product team is a builder now, and the person closest to the problem is usually the one who solves it. A lot of that work never touches an IDE. It happens from a chat box, the browser, or a phone. Curation over Execution That is the upside. The downside is that when building gets cheap, everything gets built. More apps, more features, more dashboards, more surface area, more of everything. A lot of what I see shipped now is technically impressive and strategically pointless. The new constraint is not execution, it is curation. OpenAI is a useful example. They famously got distracted and did too many things at once. Now they are focused again, betting on one product and building it largely inside Codex. Just because something can be built does not mean it should be. The teams that win will be the ones that concentrate their effort, not the ones that spray it. The upside of this cheapness is real too. You can aim higher. Things that would have taken months are suddenly a few days. In the new version of Raycast, we shipped features we had discussed for years but never had the appetite to build. With AI, we could prototype them, see them come to life, and decide much faster whether they belonged in the product. Because deciding what should and shouldn’t belong is key here. The Debate Nobody has this figured out yet. Every team is rewriting its own playbook on the fly, and the playbooks rarely agree with each other. How small should a team actually be? What should it stop building? How do you keep quality high when shipping is cheap? We are starting an event series called The New Standard to sit down with teams I think get this right: Linear, Anthropic, Cursor, and Vercel. All companies known for restraint as much as for velocity. The first two are next week: 🌉 Monday, April 27, SF: The New Standard with @cursor_ai, @raycast, and @vercel (luma.com/egmieyv4) 🗽 Thursday, April 30, NYC: The New Standard with @linear, @raycast, and @AnthropicAI at @southpkcommons (luma.com/ldp71ob2) If there is a question you want me to put to them, send it in the replies. If your team has landed on a way of working that actually sticks, I want to hear about it. The standard for what a small group of people can build in a short amount of time has moved. Let's figure out together what it now demands of us.

Custom Themes, now on Raycast for Windows 🎨 Full changelog 👉 raycast.com/changelog/wind…

Compact mode got more minimal

Feeling fresh

To clarify: - Rollout will happen in stages - The first stage started today - Next stages will happen soon - We aim to keep this as smooth and quick as possible - Invites will be sent via email and not in-app (via "Check for Updates")

The rollout of the new Raycast has officially started 🎉