Big fan and long-time user of rcmd, Hyperkey, Rectangle, BTT - all lovingly-crafted by independent developers. All solo, I believe.
I know Raycast is getting a lot of attention right now but isn’t this a VC-backed SaaS? How do people feel about inviting them on to their desktop - aren’t you worried about the inevitable other shoe dropping?
Author here, glad you like rcmd! About Raycast, I was a longtime fan of Alfred, and still bought version 5 and use it all the time for file search and navigation, as Raycast is severely lacking here.
But I really like what Raycast has become for the rest of the stuff. For example the calculator is just amazing, it replaced Soulver and Alfred completely for me, doing the currency and datetime operations a lot more intuitively.
And for now, Raycast is a full fledged app whose binary I own completely and works offline. So even if the Raycast company had problems, I can keep using the current binary forever. There's not much functionality that would go extinct with OS updates.
I know Raycast is getting a lot of attention right now but isn’t this a VC-backed SaaS? How do people feel about inviting them on to their desktop - aren’t you worried about the inevitable other shoe dropping?