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Raycast

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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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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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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Raycast is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Companies similar to Raycast

Developer tools · 6 peers

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Payload

match 57

Payload is a developer-first headless CMS and application framework built to finally give developers a better choice in the world of CMS. From documentation to design, Payload is crafted from the ground-up to save engineers time and effort while building the backend and admin panel for websites, native apps, ecommerce, SaaS, and any other product that needs to manage content. Payload is changing the CMS status quo—working to give developers the tools they want to build the CMS they need, all in

shared product terms: developer, up, save, engineer; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

OneCLI

match 54

OneCLI is a credential isolation gateway for AI agents. Agents see placeholder tokens instead of real API keys and OAuth credentials, the real secrets are injected at the network layer, so a compromised or misbehaving agent can never leak them. Teams get per-agent access control, full audit logs, and one-click integrations with Gmail, GitHub, Jira, Slack, and 50+ other apps. OneCLI is open source (2.5K+ GitHub stars, 300K+ downloads), Already the default credential layer for products like NanoCl

shared product terms: github, jira, slack, 50; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Aviator

match 54

Aviator is a developer tool that automates merge workflows and keeps builds healthy. Engineers save up to 5 hours a week and avoid frustration of broken builds. Our users include Slack, Square, Benchling, Figma, Doordash and many others. Our goal is to become the leading brand for developer experience.

shared product terms: developer, engineer, save, up; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Depot

match 52

Depot is a build acceleration platform making builds up to 40x faster for Docker containers and GitHub Actions. Companies like PostHog, Wistia, Appsmith, and Secoda use Depot to save tens of hours of build time every day. We offer a remote container build service for building Intel & Arm Docker images, from your CI or local machine, up to 40x faster. Our container builds come with in-depth build insights, ephemeral registries, and instant cache sharing across your team. Finally, we also offer ou

shared product terms: up, github, like, save; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Tipe

match 41

Tipe allows teams to edit, preview, and publish content for their apps. You can use tipe to change static content to dynamic, allow non-technical team members to edit anything. They can then preview those changes and get feedback before publishing. All of this is set up in less than 3 minutes from your developer.

shared product terms: apps, non, up, developer; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Parahelp

match 41

Set up Parahelp in just 1 day without engineers to resolve your complex support tickets end-to-end. It connects with your existing ticketing system (such as Zendesk, Intercom, Front), tools (like Stripe, Slack, Linear), knowledge, and procedures.

shared product terms: up, day, engineer, like; shared affiliation: Y Combinator