[HN Gopher] Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS ___________________________________________________________________ Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS Author : Destiner Score : 37 points Date : 2022-08-09 19:13 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | humbleferret wrote: | Aside from being open source and not mining user data, what | benefits does this provide over Alfred/Raycast? | phildenhoff wrote: | I'm excited to see this grow. Raycast has been a big boon to me | and having an open source competitor is great to see. | | Have you considered making your plug-in API compatible with | Raycast (if that's possible)? | lagrange77 wrote: | Wow this is written with react-native? | michaelmior wrote: | I would love to see something like this take off. Spotlight is | great, but there is other functionality in Alfred I quite like. | However, I find Alfred kind of expensive. Never heard of Raycast, | but this prompted me to check it out and I'm quite liking it so | far. | gkoberger wrote: | If you like Alfred, you'll love Raycast. Never had a product | completely replace another one so easily. | gabereiser wrote: | Something fishy with the dependency graph on this... How is this | a dependency of peoples webdev school work? | yagiznizipli wrote: | I did not understand what you mean. Can you elaborate? | KMnO4 wrote: | Probably because students don't know any better. The instructor | was probably teaching them how to "npm install" and uses "sol" | as an example. | | If you check the package.lock file it's listed in there for | each of those projects. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-09 23:00 UTC)