[HN Gopher] Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS
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       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.
        
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