Blending Usability and Power in App Development

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Thomas Mann about Raycast - an app that can replace Spotlight on your Mac, and do so much more.

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Show Notes

• @ThomasPaulMann
• 01:49 What is Raycast?
• Raycast
• Raycast Store
• 08:11 Do you have designers on your team to help guide UI?
• 10:13 Why build it native instead of HTML and CSS?
• 13:12 Why did you choose React?
• 21:54 How do you figure out what’s possible in system level APIs?
• 26:40 Snippets make use of SQLite
• SQLite
• 29:05 Encrypted local storage data
• 33:11 Any plans for theming for Raycast?
• 35:20 What is the pricing model?
• 37:06 What was your Y combinator experience like?
• Y Combinator
• Careers
• 42:08 Any plans for future features?
• 44:08 Supper Club questions
• Leopold FC660C Black 65% Dye Sub PBT Mechanical Keyboard
• iTerm
• Starship
• 51:25 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Nothing Ear Buds

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