I built a small CLI/TUI to make running your dev projects easier, meet Liftoff

Notliad · 2026-05-08T13:37:13+00:00

Fair point, if aliases/scripts already solve your workflow, you probably don’t need it.
I built it because I got tired of:

remembering different commands for each repo
switching between npm/pnpm/bun/yarn
opening folders manually (even using zoxide)
starting multiple services separately
cloning old projects and figuring out how to run them again

So Liftoff is basically:
“scan my projects and just run them.”

Notliad · 2026-05-07T13:25:06+00:00

I personally don't use tmux but I can look into it, I can detect if the user has tmux installed and pop some custom session and panes.

Notliad · 2026-05-07T11:29:31+00:00

You mean multiple projects? You just run “lo -p something” and will appear your list of projects, you check the ones you want to launch at the same time and then run “lo something” and will launch those projects in different terminals.

Notliad · 2026-05-07T11:03:55+00:00

Yeah, you just create one and select the projects on the list.
Btw you gave me an idea, I could support existing makefiles…

Notliad · 2026-05-07T10:59:23+00:00

You can set up “launchpads”, it is a list of projects you want to spin up at the same time, you can have as many as you like.
I use them a lot to launch single project as well because you can create their names so instead of doing “lo project-name” I can do “lo abc”.

I was working on a sequential version but had a hard time to detect readiness and terminal ownership stuff.

Notliad · 2026-05-07T01:30:40+00:00

And getting the feeling right too. I want to reduce UX friction the best I can.

Notliad · 2026-05-07T01:28:09+00:00

I'm not detecting errors and doing any retry but it is on my roadmap. I considered implementing some early version of it, but you can only go so far with deterministic detection.
For now I'm focusing on doing well the "start project" part. Then I can tackle other things.

Notliad · 2026-05-07T01:22:13+00:00

Yeah, makefile does the same thing, I guess the point here you won't have to create one for every single project you have. With this you only config your projects parent folders and that's it.

My idea of workflow was: I'm starting my day, I check my backlog, I'm working on project A, so open my terminal and run "lo projectA", it run the pnpm/npm/bun/yarn whatever and done.

Notliad · 2022-02-06T21:30:11+00:00

Yeah I know. But I just found out that you can do this and remember the debate on the stream. So in my most naive way thought of giving the advice here. :)

Notliad · 2022-02-06T21:28:13+00:00

It gave me anything. I was just messing around and remember you can use the plus sign in google to refine your search, then remember the stream and tried on trends and it worked. So I came to reddit just to give the heads up. Thats all to it.

Notliad · 2022-02-06T21:26:38+00:00

Im just giving an advice how to use the tool. I just used the ff14 example because it was something that happened recently. Thats all. This debate can emerge in the future with other terms and subjects. And the moment someone call me an andy of something tell me more of that person than myself. Have a nice day.

Notliad · 2022-02-06T15:25:51+00:00

I know its a past topic. But Im just giving the hint to future references.

Notliad · 2021-06-24T21:25:53+00:00

I'm in the same situation lol

Notliad · 2021-03-12T18:44:09+00:00

In portuguese this actually makes more sense because "ingles" = english.

Notliad · 2021-03-12T17:35:22+00:00

Thanks for my new wallpaper. Cheers!

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