# abue-ammar/tinycast

> A fully native macOS launcher with a global hotkey, clipboard history, file search, calculator, notes, and support for running Raycast extensions. Built in SwiftUI and AppKit with zero third-party dependencies, using under 100 MB of RAM.

- Magnitude: 2.6 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 9,049 total · +54 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:12–19:58 UTC, ≈ 64 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Swift · Created: 2026-06-29 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast · Homepage: https://tinycast.dev · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/abue-ammar/tinycast
- GitNova flagged it 7 hours before GitHub Trending.

## Useful for

- Launch apps and open files via fuzzy search with a single global hotkey.
- Find previously copied text or images in clipboard history and paste them back.
- Reuse existing Raycast extensions by running them natively inside Tinycast.

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:12–19:58: 8995 → 9049 stars (+54). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +64 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 2.5× that of the previous week and a half.
- About 6 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.
- Hardly anyone watches for updates: 10 watchers for 9,049 stars.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 557
- Issues and pull requests: 1,767
- Watchers: 10
- Average over the last week: 35 per day
- Usual pace: 43 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4
- Latest release: v0.12.6-beta.130 (2026-11-02)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 48, 45, 39, 52, 44, 37, 25, 80, 87, 52, 63, 33, 45, 47, 33, 27, 25, 30, 23, 31, 18, 10, 23, 33, 28, 21, 18, 23, 56, 54

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-20 2.3, 10-21 2.4, 10-22 2.5, 10-23 2.3, 10-24 2.1, 10-25 1.8, 10-26 1.7, 10-27 2.3, 10-28 2.7, 10-29 2.6, 10-30 2.4, 10-31 1.9, 11-01 2.1, 11-02 2.7

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-02 20:10 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.