tea

The Homebrew replacement from the maker of Homebrew

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Hi Product Hunt! 14 years ago, I created Homebrew with the purpose of creating a tool that made it easier to develop and use software. It changed the way millions of developers work. Now, a decade and change later, I’m doing it again. I have always firmly believed that when building, tooling should get out of your way because you have much more important work to be doing. My first attempt with brew, solved the problem of installing dependencies. Now, with tea, you will never have to think about dependencies again. In November we released tea/cli, an invisible yet powerful package manager for fans of the terminal. Today we’re releasing its graphical complement. tea/gui is A FREE, OPEN SOURCE app that makes it easy for anyone to visually browse and manage hundreds of software packages. 👆 One-click installs. Instead of searching for install instructions in cluttered docs. You can install any software package (and the required dependencies) with ONE click. 🆕 Easy updates. Get notifications the moment a new update is available. 🔄 Version management. Take control of the exact package versions you want to install—without breaking any other installed packages. 🧩 Seamless integration. tea packages don’t install to your system, yet magically are there when you need them. tea also creates sandboxed, developer environments with only the packages your project needs without any virtualization overhead. 🔐 More secure. Don’t break your system with sudo; tea installs everything to your home directory. 🌐 Open source. We’re seasoned believers in open source to our very core with 60+ active contributors and growing. We also have aspirational goals to finally fix the open source funding problem. Once and for all. Stay tuned for that! 💪 Robust. Underneath is the powerful, fast and battle-tested tea/cli. We are excited to build a world where developers can focus on their work instead of wrangling with dependencies. And we’re excited to launch on PH and hear what you think of the product because we are only getting started and much more is yet to come! Please provide us feedback: Open source software’s first and only priority is always its community!

I believe this is a game-changer from Developer Experience POV. @mxcl thanks for always inspiring the Open source ecosystem! Kudos to the makers!

I’ve got to say, this is way cooler than I expected. The GUI installer is amazing. Makes setting up a dev environment feel approachable, especially for designers like myself. This is next-level. Thank you for your effort.

I've been using tea for months, and it's great. Especially the 'magics' part: when I set up a new laptop with my existing bashrc and aliases, they "just work" without manually installing everything, thanks to tea

Congratulation on the launch of tea. For me the really cool aspect, apart from its incredible ease of use, is the simplicity and power of its version control. Tea really goes out of its way … to not get in the way!! Superb

Congrats on a successful launch. The GUI is very fun and future-forward. I explored a bunch, clicking around, and everything worked as expected. Excellent job putting together such a tight product right out of the gate! Looking forward to seeing what packages and apps find their way into the pantry.

Tea is an excellent application for those looking for a simple and intuitive way to manage their tasks and projects. It offers a wide range of features, including integration with other popular services such as Slack and Trello, as well as time management capabilities. Congratulations on your launch!

Hey, I am not a developer by myself, but I love the idea of the free and open source app, which simplifies work and life of many of the developers. They deserve it! Keep up the amazing work you are doing! 👍

This testnet becomes an important place as a place to learn protocols properly and perfectly. Thank you for giving us an opportunity that we may not get back as testers. As a tester, I am quite satisfied and believe that this project can develop even better later after the team has received all input from the community! the important thing for a project is to be able to receive input from the community! success always for the team.

This is awesome! I've been using the CLI for the past few months now and have been a huge fan. Excited to start using the new GUI as well! Congrats!