# Glaze by Raycast 16 Hacker News commenters recommended Glaze by Raycast and 29 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Lets people turn prompts into working apps quickly and publish them to app stores; critics warn of lock-in and thin wrapping over other AI APIs. ## Why people recommend it - Fun and interesting to use (3 comments): "The only real interesting thing I’ve seen so far was Glaze from a couple days ago" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285215)) "This looks super fun, actually." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247289)) "Honestly Glaze is brilliant." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258773)) - Quick app store publishing (2 comments): "that’s super convenient given the cumbersome (and maybe, horrific) process that is the app store submission" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247772)) "The quick publishing is kind of nice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247422)) - Working, stable apps quickly (2 comments): "You get a working app one-shotted pretty much all the time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252406)) "the devs built something incredibly sleek and stable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255583)) ## What people warn about - Security risks from generated code (3 comments): "I don't see how this solves the issue, something bad can happen regardless of permission granularity, no?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252011)) "irresponsible to allow laypeople to potentially inject dangerous code into literal black box programs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255382)) "I can't imagine trusting these apps with access to my camera, file system or any other sensitive permissions." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250001)) - Proprietary lock-in risks (3 comments): "There is zero possibility anyone i know will tolerate a locked ecosystems like this any longer than absolutely needed." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262910)) "why would i ever use a proprietary solution that’s opinionated and likely eventually costs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255781)) "I don't understand what benefit Glaze will bring outside of more lock-in?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256021)) - Thin wrapper over other APIs (2 comments): "is it literally just a pure play branding/packaging exercise over the openai/anthropic API to trick normies?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257148)) "Using just claude code, one can do what glazeapp seems to aim for, no?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247310)) - Built on JavaScript, not native (2 comments): "It will be awesome if these were native apps instead of JavaScript apps." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247545)) "They are using react native and I am willing to bet that this does too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247796)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Lovable](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lovable.md): 73 recommend - [Replit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/replit.md): 51 recommend - [Bolt.new](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bolt.md): 20 recommend - [v0 by Vercel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/v0.md): 19 recommend - [Sites in ChatGPT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sites-in-chatgpt.md): 17 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Glaze by Raycast", https://hackerapproved.com/p/glaze/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).