roshan
Start the apps and commands you use every day in one click, in the right order. Small, offline, open source (Rust + GPUI).
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Details
- External ID
- 1403833578
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- roshan
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4218106995884774
- Tags
- desktop, gpui, launcher, open-source, persian, productivity, rust, windows
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Niche
- developer tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- one-click app and command launcher for desktop
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Roshan is a desktop app/command launcher written in Rust with GPUI that executes a predefined list of shell commands and applications in sequential or parallel order.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 89 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 90 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- awesome-rust-apps · github · 2026-09-15 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- open.mp-linux-launcher · github · 2026-09-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- rustdsh · github · 2026-10-04 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI · hn · 2026-08-16 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- I made a Rust Terminal UI for OpenSnitch, a Linux application firewall · hn · 2025-11-21 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Open-source full-stack starter built on TanStack Start · hn · 2025-12-02 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Captain Kill Switch · ph · 2026-09-12 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Rust UEFI UI Lib · hn · 2026-03-31 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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