Raycast (YC W20) — Speed up non-coding tasks for engineering teams
Raycast is a productivity tool that saves engineering teams time on non-coding tasks in apps like Jira, GitHub or Slack which might take up to 50% of a developer's day.
Raycast is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2020 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Speed up non-coding tasks for engineering teams. The founders listed are Thomas Mann (Founder), Petr Nikolaev (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 9, 2020).
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Raycast is a productivity tool that saves engineering teams time on non-coding tasks in apps like Jira, GitHub or Slack which might take up to 50% of a developer's day.
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A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
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Thomas Mann
Founder
I like to make things for people who make things. I'm currently crafting Raycast. Previously, I built products as a software engineer at Facebook, Audi, ProSieben and the Fraunhofer Society.
Petr Nikolaev
Founder
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