Show HN: Gauntlet – Raycast-inspired open-source application launcher

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2 years ago

Hi everyone, about a year ago I discovered Raycast and really liked the idea of it: writing plugins in React and TypeScript. But Raycast is available only on macOS and I am hopping between different OS quite a lot. It also isn't open source, which is not a huge deal but would have been nice to have. So I decided to create my own, because it looked like it could be a lot of fun and the scope was manageable for a single person.

I went with plugin-first approach focusing on plugin APIs, everything builtin plugins provide (and more) can be also implemented by any plugin. At the moment API surface is minimal but usable, I want to work on creating plugin documentation before extending it further.

Plugins are distributed as part of Git repository, meaning no central server is required.

For JS runtime Gauntlet is using using Deno, which, among other things, gives nice security model allowing to be explicit about things plugins can do on your system.

Gauntlet is also designed with cross-platform in mind from the start. Currently supporting Linux with macOS and Windows support coming in near future.

Please join Discord server if you want to follow for updates or interested in creating a plugin. You can find the link in the beginning of the README. It is currently pretty empty in here but hopefully not for long.

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