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- The Productivity Tool for Professionals
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Imagine using macOS with AI 🪄
Editing files? Just type what you want in
@raycastapp
and let the magic happen.
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TIL: If you prefix an emoji with "+" in
@SlackHQ
, you can react to the previous message 👌
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New update available for the
@ArcInternet
extension:
⚡ New "Search Spaces" and "Search Tabs" commands
🏃 Jump to already open tabs
🙈 Use incognito windows
Thanks to
@browsercompany
for the new AppleScript API!
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Product development at
@raycastapp
in a nutshell:
1️⃣ Idea
2️⃣ Hack
3️⃣ Dogfood
4️⃣ Ship
🔁 Repeat
Our first update of the year…
🛫 Track flights and get real-time information, including departure and arrival times, flight statuses + more
🎭 Toggle Stage Manager with a system command
📆 Join
@calcom
video meetings from My Schedule
Full changelog 👉
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3 years ago today,
@raycastapp
started as an idea and now it's speeding up tens of thousands of professionals every day!
Let's take a trip down memory lane and see where it all began 🧵
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@browsercompany
meets
@raycastapp
I built an extension for your browsing history in
@ArcInternet
.
🔍 Search through everything you've looked at
👾 Open in Arc, Little Arc or other browsers
📋 Copy URL, title or Markdown easily
Install the extension 👉
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What if...
a calendar for makers not managers?!
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This is how we built
@raycastapp
: We build it for ourselves and believe many other people like us are out there.
It's much more motivating and fun to build for yourself. You know precisely what you want.
Quentin Tarantino says he makes movies with a very specific audience in mind:
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We revamped our AI Chat to make it the fastest and most beautiful way to use AI on your Mac (I'm biased)!
🔍 New sidebar for better navigating
💻 Dock icon to support ⌘-tabbing
🛟 Option to keep window always on top
🔀 ⌘ + P to quickly switch chats
🖼️ Works with our window…
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Playing with AI and our extensions.
What if you could summarize websites or open tabs? 🤔
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AI Emoji suggestions are here 🤗 🚀 🎉
What sounds like a small feature fundamentally changed how I search for emojis. Instead of typing the correct keyword, I simply type what I think.
Plus, it works with languages other than English!
First release of 2024 is here:
🧠 Better Emoji search with AI suggestions (Pro only)
🔍 Edit Clipboard History entries
🖼️ Set a custom wallpaper in Window Capture
📝 Improved Snippet expansion performance
💎 Many fixes and improvements!
Full changelog 👉
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Today is a big day for
@raycastapp
! We're thrilled to announce our $15m Series A and release our Extensions Store and API. Read more about it here:
Also, we're on
@ProductHunt
today:
We're excited to announce some big news…
📣 $15m Series A, led by
@Accel
and Coatue
🏪 Public launch of the Store and API
🐱 Support our launch on Product Hunt –
Read more 👉
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- Your shortcut to everything.
New story. New paint. Same product.
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New
@raycastapp
release is out 🚀
Little detail: Running apps show an indicator, inspired by the macOS dock.
Express yourself like a pro with Emojis…
🎉 Pick an Emoji in Raycast by typing : followed by an emotion
📆 Choose the browser to open Google links in My Schedule
✨ App running indicators in root search
Read more 👉
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I just updated the
@ArcInternet
extension based on your feedback. Now you can:
🏎️ Search across tabs, history and suggestions with a single command
📶 Quickly access spaces and favorites from your menu bar
🔍 Fallback to Google search if needed
Keep the feedback coming 💪
New update available for the
@ArcInternet
extension:
⚡ New "Search Spaces" and "Search Tabs" commands
🏃 Jump to already open tabs
🙈 Use incognito windows
Thanks to
@browsercompany
for the new AppleScript API!
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Things are about to get fast - that throughput 😍
We're starting a beta soon for our first feature written in
@rustlang
. I can't wait to tell you about the marvelous engineering work that went into it.
We're testing our first feature written in
@rustlang
internally. It's one of the most complex engineering works we've done so far.
2024 is going to be scary fast!
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I heard you like scroll animations - Some subtle ones by
@nichlaswa
and
@asubbotin
on 🤩
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The mobile team for
@raycastapp
is assembled! Our internal chat is already full of prototypes, and now with
@johanthorell
on board, we'll start building.
Stay tuned - it's going to be a fun ride!
I’m super excited to announce that I’m joining
@raycastapp
as their first iOS Engineer! I look forward to enhancing Raycast's already legendary workflow by bringing a completely new experience to the iOS platform 📲💥🙌
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So pumped about working with
@JordanAmblin
to make
@raycastapp
for mobile reality 💪
Today is my first day at
@raycastapp
🤩 (pinch me).
I'm soo excited to join this talented team and help bring the power of Raycast to iOS 📲
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Time for some magic 🪄
Today, we bring the power of AI to every corner of your Mac – it's just the beginning of what's to come!
Join the beta 👉
🪄 Introducing Raycast AI: The magic of AI, right on your Mac.
Write smarter, code faster and answer questions quicker with ChatGPT in Raycast – just one keystroke away.
Join the beta 👉
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I'm building an extension for
@googlecalendar
:
✨ Use AI to process natural language
📹 Support conference providers like
@Zoom
🏗️ Extend
@raycastapp
's extension API where needed
📣 Share progress in public
First steps are done:
📶 Connect via OAuth
🆕 Create events with a form…
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This must be one of the craziest scroll animations →
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This release brings our extensions platform to the next level. Now developers can put glanceable information in the macOS menu bar 😱
This is an entire command that displays unread
@github
notifications. Authentication, caching, installation, and more – all handled by us!
So, what’s on the menu for the API?
🍫 Introducing Menu Bar Commands!
Plus…
📂 Open sourced
@linear
Extension
🔄 Background refreshes
🤬 Arguments for quick entries
🪝 React hooks to streamline builds
Read about the full list of updates to our API 👉
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Best Mac App of the Year 🏆
I'm super proud to see the hard work of our team be rewarded by
@macstoriesnet
. A huge shoutout to our amazing community who made this possible with their incredible extensions 🙏
We're honored to be
@macstoriesnet
's Best Mac App of the Year!
Massive thanks to our incredible community – we couldn't have done it without you 🙌
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We released a new "Open Camera" command to take a quick look at yourself before joining a meeting! We went a bit nostalgic with a shutter animation.
Curious how it was built with
@SwiftLang
? Check out this thread 🧵
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Take a look at yourself with our new "Open Camera" command 📸
Also in v.1.63
✨ GPT-4 is now available in Quick AI
📏 Support rem to px conversion
🕵️ "Space" aliases are displayed as "⎵"
🏃 Improve extensions error handling when using Swift
Changelog 👉
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Need a product designer?
🌍 London or remote
🧠 Passionate about AI
📷 Former pro photographer
Check out 👉
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Control your Mac with a lightsaber to celebrate Star Wars Day 🌌
Search for 'lightsaber' in the latest
@raycastapp
update and spice up your next video call. Sound on 🔊
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
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Fun fact: This feature has been internal for several months and half the team was using it every day.
We simply forgot to toggle that feature flag 😬 Glad to see it being useful!
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We're testing our first feature written in
@rustlang
internally. It's one of the most complex engineering works we've done so far.
2024 is going to be scary fast!
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I always wanted to be a Jedi! Here's my Raycast Wrapped 2022.
More details below ↓
Introducing: Raycast Wrapped 🎁
Take a glance at your productivity over the past year, from launching Raycast, to your use of Extensions and Applications, and visualize your developer stats and time spent in meetings.
Full changelog 👉
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Surprise: Our Snippet Explorer got hunted on
@ProductHunt
🎉
Browse and import symbols, code snippets, dates & more directly into
@raycastapp
to speed up your typing.
👉
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Thanks for all the kind words about our new website. It's been in the making for a while, and we'll share a few behind-the-scenes soon.
Anything you're interested in?
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We built a Merch Store and it took a lot to get it right!
🤝 Teamed up with
@Heystudio
for a unique design
🚛 Rented a warehouse to serve our global community
👕 Sourced top-notch apparel for everyday wear
🛍️ Built a store using
@nextjs
and
@Shopify
Read the full story 🧵
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The wait is over and our merch is here!
👕 Heavyweight hoodies and tees
☕ Classic matte black mug
👜 Ever-so-useful tote bags
🤫 Surprise in every order
Stay productive in style 👉
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Bad news: No release today
Good news: Rest of April is packed
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Had a blast hacking with
@bunjavascript
during our last Rayday
🦺 Wrote
@typescript
that just works (no transpilers/bundlers/etc.)
📚 Connected to
@supabase
with type-safety
🏃 Deployed flawlessly on GitHub Actions
⚡ And man, it's lightning-fast!
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New
@ycombinator
extension 🧡
• Founders: Search all YC companies
• Investors: Browse current and past batches
• Employees: Find interesting teams and jobs
👉
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It's nice to start the week with such positive feedback in our community 🤩
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How about having quick access to
@ArcInternet
's spaces and favorite tabs in your menu bar?! 👀
New update available for the
@ArcInternet
extension:
⚡ New "Search Spaces" and "Search Tabs" commands
🏃 Jump to already open tabs
🙈 Use incognito windows
Thanks to
@browsercompany
for the new AppleScript API!
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@tryamie
🤝
@raycastapp
Congrats on the launch. More coming soon 😉
labours of love take time – after 2 years in beta we’re today introducing a new Amie:
calendar, todos, and now email all in one place.
check out our new website and launch video to see and hear all the exciting new things we have to tell you.
we think you’ll love it.…
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Some of my frequently used snippets:
- !x → 𝕏
- @@ -> email address
- !cmd -> ⌘
- !today -> current date
More 👉
Stop Repeating Yourself 🙅
In our latest video, we explain why Snippets in Raycast are so useful and how they can make you more productive
Link below 👇
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Time to bring out the confetti cannons for another release.
Check out what's new in Raycast v.1.35…
🔍 Find screenshots by searching for text in images
🎉 Use the new `raycast://confetti` URL scheme to trigger confetti
🚀 Improvements to launching Raycast and search speed
Read the full changelog 👉
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I'm considering adding a "Search Arc" command that looks through everything: Open tabs, history and Google suggestions - the common things I search for. What do you think?
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Added a lil something to the Clipboard History
This week's release brings a bunch of quality-of-life improvements!
🔎 Search highlights in Clipboard History
📝 Increased Snippets limit to 5k
📌 Added a "Pin" action in Search Menu Items
🎨 Support for HWB, Lab, LCH colors in Calculator
Changelog 👉
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We've also shipped some improvements for AI Chat yesterday!
📌 Pin chats for quick access
🔀 Use "⌘ + 1-9" to switch recent chats
🤏 Reduced minimum width for smaller screens
Stay tuned for more after Easter 🔜
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We wanted to announce Quick AI with a POP in
@raycastapp
, so we added a dazzling shimmer effect.
Here's a breakdown how we built it with
@SwiftLang
👇
We shipped v1.50.0
⇥ ✨ Introducing Quick AI
Your answers are just a Tab away
Also...
· AI Command Deeplinks
· Markdown Table Support
· Code Block Syntax Highlighting and Copy Button
Full changelog 👉
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The capabilities of
@AIatMeta
's Llama 3 with the speed of
@GroqInc
and the convenience of
@raycastapp
💁
Llama 3 70B is now available to all Pro users. Powered by
@GroqInc
⚡
We're blown away by its accuracy and speed. Enjoy!
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Last week, we shipped Quick AI in
@raycastapp
⇥ ✨
Just type your question and hit tab for an instant AI-generated answer.
Here's a behind-the-scenes thread on why and how we built it 👇
1/9
We shipped v1.50.0
⇥ ✨ Introducing Quick AI
Your answers are just a Tab away
Also...
· AI Command Deeplinks
· Markdown Table Support
· Code Block Syntax Highlighting and Copy Button
Full changelog 👉
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A new way to use the web with
@raycastapp
🌐
🫴 Introducing the Raycast Browser Extension
Bring the context of any webpage to Raycast AI commands and make it easy to summarize or ask questions about your active browser tab.
Get it 👉
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Nice surprise:
@WIRED
covered
@raycastapp
📰
"There are very few applications that have actually changed how I use my computer. Raycast is one of them. Anything I can think of is just a few keystrokes away..."
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🙋 Ask About Website
No time to read it all? No problem! Just ask with our new AI Command.
Check for updates → Happy life!
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New
@year_progress
extension – perfect to favorite in
@raycastapp
for extra motivation ⭐
Check it out 👉
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Quick Slack Status: Type your status and let AI pick an emoji 🪄
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That would be a blessing for remote teams
what if Slack could automatically translate times to your teammate's timezones
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Say hello to Quick Paste/Insert for Raycast AI ✨
Select text, search for an AI command, and let Raycast handle the rest — perfect for fixing typos, translating text, or crafting stunning content.
Available to all Raycast AI beta users in v1.49.0.
v1.49.0 is here…
🎨 Preview and transform colors with ease
🪟 Use AI in a resizable, and floating window
💬 Access previous AI chats in a history
✨ Raycast AI is now powered by
@OpenAI
GPT-4
Big batch of AI invites is going out soon!
Full changelog 👉
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Working in a fully distributed company has another benefit: You can design your own office. This is where I spend most of my time while cracking on
@raycastapp
✌️
Thomas (
@thomaspaulmann
) is the Co-founder & CEO of
@raycastapp
. His setup includes:
💻
@Apple
MacBook Pro 16
🖥
@LGUS
27 UltraFine 5K
⌨️ Leopold FC660C Keyboard
🎧
@Apple
AirPods Max
🪑
@fully_us
Jarvis Standing Desk
Explore →
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Very cool to see more and more startups put out their philosophies/manifestos!
Also, what a good-looking page full of little details👌
Developer Experience.
That's the concept that brought us together to build something new. Now, we're describing what it means.
This is not a manifesto. It's a philosophy.
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👀
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I heard you like sparkles - Some details by
@R51
on
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Finally gotten around sending our February newsletter - keeps us busy 🙃
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Quickly access all your favorite, pinned, and open tabs from Arc's sidebar with the "Search Tabs" command. Open them in Little Arc, an incognito window or another space; plus reload & close them!
⚡ Pro tip: Assign a global hotkey - I use "⌥ + T".
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A Mac app? A React API? How does it work?
There you go 👇
Raycast is a 100% native Mac app, and so are our extensions developed with
@reactjs
🏎️
Here's our journey in building a first-of-its-kind platform that combines
@typescript
and
@SwiftLang
.
👉
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New models for Raycast AI just dropped 🪂
From
@AnthropicAI
,
@perplexity_ai
, and
@GroqInc
, we got them all - One interface, many LLMs!
Run "Check for Updates" to get them.
✨ We're excited to introduce new models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral and Meta to Raycast.
One interface, many LLMs.
Learn more 👉
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Hardware company in 2023?! 🤔
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Another simple script command to keep track of a stock portfolio in
@raycastapp
. I use
@jsngr
's lil API to get the stock information.
API:
Script:
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This is the start of something big, and I'm really excited about what the team put together 🥳
Introducing Raycast for Teams (beta)!
👥 Build and share extensions with your team to speed up internal workflows – activate with '0xC0C0A'
😁 New Search Emoji command to find your favorites
📆 Improvements to My Schedule menu bar item
Full changelog 👉
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"The person who carefully designs their daily routine goes further than the person who negotiates with themselves every day."
—
@ShaneAParrish
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Fonts in London Pt. 2
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✨ Quick AI: Just type your question and hit tab for an instant answer
A lot of effort went into getting the interactions right. I'll share some more behind-the-scenes next week 🔜
We shipped v1.50.0
⇥ ✨ Introducing Quick AI
Your answers are just a Tab away
Also...
· AI Command Deeplinks
· Markdown Table Support
· Code Block Syntax Highlighting and Copy Button
Full changelog 👉
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Add a preset to chat with it in
@raycastapp
💬
My fav, a preset that helps me write UX copy:
Just shipped AI Preset Explorer - my fav is the Interactive Storyteller for making stories with my son and Llama 3 makes it super fast ⚡️
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We joined the Winter 2020
@ycombinator
batch and had 3 months to get traction before Demo Day. So we got straight to work on our flights over to SF building features like the Clipboard History.
And of course, captured an obligatory photo in front of that iconic YC sign 📸
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