Sriram Natraj

tl;dr: I built a raycast extension to help me quit a set of apps on my mac at once.

Download link: Quick Quit

what is raycast?

Raycast is a productivity app that allows you to search and run actions on your mac. It’s mac spotlight on steroids. It’s one of my favorite apps of all time.

why quick quit?

It’s been over a month since I made the leap to use AI everyday. For work, personal tasks, and everything in between. Part of this routine has made me try different apps day in and day out. You can set up a workflow in raycast to open a set of apps at once. I increasingly found myself frustrated by forgetting about random apps running background tasks that I had forgot to close.

It’s not the most painful problem in the world but it’s weirdly frustrating at times to see a cluttered workspace. So I thought there must be an easy way to automate this. So I made a raycast extension completely from scratch using AI.

how does it work?

Quick Quit is a power-user utility designed to reduce context switching and manage workspace clutter. Instead of quitting applications one by one, you can define logical categories (e.g., “Work”, “Design”, “Social”, “Dev”) and quit all apps in a group with a single command or a dedicated hotkey.

here’s a quick demo:

this project took me about ~250 prompts overall across a few models. (I’m just tracking this to see if I get better at prompting and building projects over time).

tools & models used