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Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

26 pointsby inatreecrown2today at 4:03 AM6 commentsview on HN

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pxtailtoday at 12:25 PM

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

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SebastianKratoday at 11:34 AM

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.

tolerancetoday at 4:14 AM

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.

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inatreecrown2today at 4:14 AM

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

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alwillistoday at 5:18 AM

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

Loved Quicksilver back in the day.

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jauntywundrkindtoday at 6:55 AM

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