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Glaze by Raycast
Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI
776 followers
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.
Raycast
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Thomas, co-founder and CEO of Raycast. Today we're opening Glaze to everyone, and I think it's a small step toward software finally getting personal. We couldn't be more excited to share it with the Product Hunt community.
Here's the thing that got us here. Tools are how we make progress, and today so many of our tools are apps. But most software is a compromise. To reach millions of people, you build for the average, and the average doesn't really exist. We're all individuals, so the "one app for everyone" always leaves something on the table.
Glaze flips that. You describe what you want, and it builds a Mac app shaped around you. It lives in your dock, launches instantly, works offline, and taps into the full power of your machine. When something isn't right, just talk to it and change it. It's so much fun iterating on it to get exactly what you're looking for.
And it doesn't stop at building. You can publish your app to the public store for anyone to use, or share it privately with your team, so internal tools stay internal and good ideas spread. We run our support and sales processes fully on Glaze apps at Raycast. Additionally, we've seen teams like Cursor, Linear, or Vercel building custom apps to optimize how they get work done.
A few of my favorite apps:
World Cup: Simply stay on top of all matches, with live stats, a beautiful knockout stage view and more.
Yolo: A terminal that is optimized for using agents with vertical tabs, AI suggestions and a ton of keyboard shortcuts.
CS Glaze Synth: A full synthesizer 🤯 The app was used to create the sounds for our launch video.
Glaze is free to start, and there's a paid plan when you want to go further. Mac first, with more platforms to come.
Honestly, the part that blows me away is the creativity. People keep building things we'd never have thought of, and that's exactly what we hoped for.
One thing I'd genuinely love your take on: what's the one app you've always wished existed but never had the time or setup to build? Sign up, try to build it and share your link below.
Thanks for taking a look. We're early, and we'll learn most of this in the open with you 💠
@thomaspaulmann Congrats! If you could wake up tomorrow with one tiny, personal Mac app that solved a daily friction for you, what would it do and why?
@thomaspaulmann congrats on the launch 🚀
The idea of software adapting to the individual instead of forcing everyone into the same workflow really resonates. It feels like AI is finally making truly personal software possible.
I'm curious, after watching people build with Glaze, what's the most unexpected app that made you stop and think, "We never imagined someone would build this"?
Raycast
@md_khayruzzaman had a few of these moments:
Help with your posture in front of the computer with the webcam watching you
A full synthesizer!
A terminal optimized for agents
And all of it just after few days.
@thomaspaulmann Love that you're building on top of Raycast — how did you decide on the scope of what apps people can create through chat? Did you start broader or narrow it down based on what actually worked?
Raycast
@clquek we kept it broad so people really can build what they have want.
Raycast
Glaze is super fun — kind of the dream of site-specific browsers brought to the generative AI era!
I've built several personal apps so far and published Tesla Energy to help me track my solar production!
Raycast
@chrismessina time to get some solar panels!!! Jokes aside, this is amazing, love it.
Raycast
@thomaspaulmann if this convinces you to go solar, my work here is done. 🌞
Raycast
Hey everyone 👋
I’m Alex, Product Designer at Raycast and part of the team behind Glaze. We’re incredibly excited to finally share Glaze with the world. It’s been a wild journey turning an idea into a product that lets anyone build fully functional, beautiful desktop apps.
A few of my favorite things about it:
Describing an idea and watching it appear in my macOS dock, ready to use anytime
Using Annotation to make changes directly inside my app and watching them happen in real time
Generating app icons and exploring different concepts until one just feels right
Browsing the Store and discovering apps built by my team and the wider Glaze community
A few apps I built myself:
Hotkey Explorer: helps me explore and organize hotkey systems for Raycast
Winamp: brings my favorite music player from the 2000s (and all its wild skins) to macOS
Glassmaker: helped me design the Glaze app icon by exploring glass shapes and materials
We can’t wait to see what you build! Share your apps and let us know what you think. We’re just getting started, and your feedback will help us shape what comes next for Glaze. 💠
Raycast
@alexantonov the annotation tool is so good. Using it a ton of times to iterate on smaller bits to make it just right.
how does it handle updates when you tweak the app later, do you just re-describe the change and it patches the existing build or does it start from scratch each time?
Raycast
@hsanypvk You just continue where you left off by chatting and annotating with the app you're building
Raycast
@hsanypvk yes just send another message and it edits it. We also have an annotation tool that allows you to select something in the app like a button and describe how to change only that part.
The idea of creating Mac apps through chat sounds useful, especially for people who have a workflow in mind but don’t want to start from a blank coding setup. How much control does Glaze give over the final app behavior once the AI generates something? For example, can users keep refining the app through chat, or is there also a more developer-style way to inspect and adjust what was created?
Raycast
@mia_qiao yes you can go as deep as you want.
How does Glaze actually handle saving and sharing the apps it builds, like can you export them or are they locked to my machine?
Raycast
@durmumnda it lives on your Mac. You can then publish in the store to share with others or internal.
How does Glaze actually handle more complex app logic, like connecting to external APIs or saving user data locally, or is it mainly for self-contained little tools right now?
Raycast
@kamile1170180 It can connect to anything. I have apps connected to Linear, Notion, GitHub, local CLIs and MCPs. Just ask the agent and it will figure it out.