Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

(tunaformac.com)

33 points | by inatreecrown2 9 hours ago ago

13 comments

  • mikker 36 minutes ago ago

    Hey nerds! I made Tuna – happy to answer any and all questions. Thank you for posting it OP!

  • SebastianKra 2 hours ago ago

    This composability was also a defining feature of Launchbar.

    I loved it, but eventually found that Raycasts approach of having predefined plugins for each use case is more performant , discoverable and usable.

    Kinda like how the unix philosophy was beaten by integrated full-stack applications.

    * since anything can be composed, everything must be in the same search index. This slows down the index, and means you need to sift through more irrelevant results.

  • pxtail an hour ago ago

    Butchered fish meat piece as the app icon is kind of weird from my perspective.

    • mikker 32 minutes ago ago

      Why?

  • tolerance 9 hours ago ago

    I don’t like this. I am content with Alfred! The landing page is so concise. The demo so straight forward and enticing. It all appears so novel.

    Great work.

    • mikker 32 minutes ago ago

      Haha ... so ... it worked?

      • tolerance 16 minutes ago ago

        Much to my chagrin. How will third-party extensions be implemented?

        • mikker 3 minutes ago ago

          Swift. I'm currently dog-fooding the implementation for many of the built-ins and the store downloadable ones. I want to let the API and approach settle a bit before making it public but they'll be Swift based and hopefully easy enough for someone experienced in any kind of programming to implement with the help of an AI agent or on their own.

  • inatreecrown2 9 hours ago ago

    here is a presentation by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkm-ZFlivyI

    • mikker 33 minutes ago ago

      If it looks like I'm excited it's only because I am

  • alwillis 8 hours ago ago

    This looks awesome! I’m excited to try it out.

    Loved Quicksilver back in the day.

    • mikker 33 minutes ago ago

      Never forget! I've dm'ed with and shown Tuna to Alcor and he's been kind enough to bless both the app and my efforts. Great guy

  • jauntywundrkind 6 hours ago ago

    Also saw open-source Raycast-aloke RustCast go by today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141912 https://github.com/unsecretised/rustcast