Glaze by Raycast

Congrats on the launch! 🚀 What’s the most unexpected personal app someone has built with Glaze so far?

Creating apps I can use instantly from just a few sentences is genuinely fun and kind of unbelievable. I've already built two apps I actually needed. Congrats on the launch!

the site-specific-browser-meets-generative-AI framing is a great way to put it. curious where the generated apps actually run — fully local on the Mac, or phoning home? that boundary is the whole ballgame for anything touching personal data.

How does app signing and all work?

Already a user and lover of Raycast for years, Glaze is such a nice tool! Already built a personal finance tracker and many ideas to come 🤗

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!

love that raycast is going after this, the "lives in your dock and works offline" part is the actual hard problem most AI app builders skip since they're all web output. does the generated app get real native access (menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, notifications) or is it more of a sandboxed webview wrapper under the hood?

I like the idea of Glaze, but are there any plans to let us use our own AI subscriptions instead of Glaze’s credit system? That’s my biggest concern with AI tools at the moment, as nobody likes paying API pricing, but I would happily pay for “Pro Features” on Glaze.

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Pavlo, AI engineer on Glaze.I build the AI agent behind Glaze, from writing its prompts and refining the harness around it to wiring everything together so it can plan, write code, and validate its own work.My favorite part is seeing all the effort and engineering behind creating an app disappear into an experience that feels like magic. You describe the app you have in mind, and Glaze helps bring it to life.On a personal note, beyond being a blast and an awesome challenge to work on, Glaze has also had a real impact on my day-to-day life. I used it to build something I genuinely needed, a dashboard for monitoring my glucose levels tailored to my needs. I never felt like the existing options gave me exactly what I wanted, so I built one for myself with Glaze.Can’t wait to see what you build. Share your apps, send us your feedback, and help shape what comes next for Glaze 💠

👀👀👀the free allowance is 120 credits, how much is it actually? what is the biggest desktop app you can build from scratch on the free trial?same question for the paid plan, because the cheapest paid plan is $20 which is same as Codex or Claude Code entry subscription price, and this is what Glaze 200 credits compete withcongrats with the launch, it's gonna solve so many quick problems!

I installed this app and created a menu bar app that displays the current weather conditions from my weather station in less than 15 minutes. It's great for those cases where you just want a simple local app on your machine and don;t want to fuss with more complicated tools.

Me appreciate the offline support. how will updates reach existing apps? Automatic syncing could keep everything current with little effort.

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?

This is exciting. I’d probably use it to finally build a few small Mac apps I’ve been putting off for a while.

The idea of describing what you want and getting a real Mac app in your dock that launches instantly is wild. Big respect to the Raycast team for actually shipping something this ambitious instead of just teasing it.

Yolo being built by one of your own engineers to juggle git worktrees and multiple coding agents is the most convincing demo here — that's exactly the kind of hyper-specific tool nobody ships commercially, and it's the one I'd use daily.What stands out vs other app-gen tools is the distribution story: private team sharing means internal tools actually stay internal instead of dying as a repo someone has to clone and build. Congrats @thomaspaulmann — curious what the store looks like in six months.

How does Glaze actually handle updates when the underlying Mac OS or your prompt-based code changes, do you have to rebuild from scratch each time?

made a quick app to rename batches of files and it actually worked without me touching a terminal. The offline part is what sold me, didn't expect something this capable to skip the cloud entirely.

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 💠