Getting started

Prospect is in early development, but a first pre-release is available: download it, or build it yourself.

Download the pre-release

The releases page provides a Linux archive (prospect-<version>-linux-x64.tar.gz, with a ready-to-run Prospect binary once extracted) and a Windows archive (prospect-<version>-win-x64.zip, Prospect.exe), with SHA-256 sums alongside.

On Windows, the binary is not code-signed yet: SmartScreen will report an unknown publisher. Choose “More info”, then “Run anyway”. There is no installer and no auto-update for now: a new version is downloaded from the same place.

Prerequisites (building)

You need the .NET 10 SDK installed. Check your version with:

dotnet --version

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/Pixnop/Prospect.git
cd Prospect
dotnet run --project src/Prospect.Desktop

Three commands: clone the repository, then build and launch the desktop app.

What to expect

You get a working launcher, early. The pre-release installs nothing system-wide: extract the archive, run the binary, and a newer build replaces it from the same page, since there is no auto-update yet. The screenshots in this documentation come from today’s builds.

The interface speaks English and French. The first start follows your system language; Settings changes it, and the choice applies the next time Prospect starts. The theme and the window backdrop live in the same place and apply immediately: see Customize Prospect.

If you come from VS Launcher, Prospect offers to import your installs at first start: a copy, your original folders untouched. The details are in Migrate from VS Launcher.

To follow progress or report an issue, head to the GitHub repository. For a report, the Logs page (in the sidebar) shows what Prospect did during the session and exports it to a file: attach that file, it settles most questions.