# justrach/nanolight

> A cross-platform launcher for Mac, Windows and Linux written in Zig: app search, calculator, Google suggestions, Grok, X and Raycast extension support. About 2 MB, no Electron.

- Magnitude: 3.3 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 214 total · +14 stars measured 2026-11-02, 20:42–23:05 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: Zig · License: MIT · Created: 2026-11-02 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/justrach/nanolight · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/justrach/nanolight

## Useful for

- Launch an app by initials or a typo straight from the launcher panel
- Evaluate an expression like 2^10 * 3 and copy the result to the clipboard
- Install an extension from the Raycast Store and run its commands from the panel

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 20:42–23:05: 200 → 214 stars (+14). This is the change over that interval.
- The repository is 0 days old and already has 214 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #143.
- About 21 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @sorrycc (14,866 followers), @ChrisZou (218 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

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

## Numbers

- Forks: 12
- Issues and pull requests: 7
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 14 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4
- Latest release: v0.2.0 (2026-11-02)

## Stars per day, last 1 day (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-02 … 2026-11-02: 14

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #143

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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 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.