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Chauffeur
Restore your entire workspace in one click — 100% local
Chauffeur captures the working state of all your apps — open files, tabs, projects across Excel, VS Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and your browser — and restores it on demand. Everything runs locally on Windows. No cloud, no telemetry, no account. Free trial.
Hi Product Hunt! Maker here.
Chauffeur started from a problem I hit every single day: my "working context" was spread across a dozen windows — the right Excel sheets, the right VS Code project, a handful of Notepad++ files, the browser tabs I actually needed. The moment I rebooted or switched tasks, all of it was gone, and rebuilding it by hand cost me 10–15 minutes several times a day.
So I built Chauffeur: a small background service on Windows that captures the working state of your apps and restores it in one click.
What it does today:
• Saves open files, tabs and projects across Excel, VS Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and Chrome/Edge
• Restores a whole named context on demand — perfect for jumping between projects or clients
• Runs as a local background service with a small desktop app + CLI
What it is NOT: there's no cloud, no account, no telemetry. Everything stays on your machine — that was a hard design requirement from day one.
👉 There's a free trial so you can try it on your own real workflow (link above). I'd genuinely love your feedback: which apps would you want Chauffeur to support next? I'll be here all day replying to every comment.
Thanks for taking a look 🙏
About Chauffeur on Product Hunt
“Restore your entire workspace in one click — 100% local”
Chauffeur was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #150 on the daily leaderboard. Chauffeur captures the working state of all your apps — open files, tabs, projects across Excel, VS Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and your browser — and restores it on demand. Everything runs locally on Windows. No cloud, no telemetry, no account. Free trial.
On the analytics side, Chauffeur competes within Windows, Productivity and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Chauffeur performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Chauffeur?
Chauffeur was hunted by Dimos Maginas. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Chauffeur including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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