Getting promoted isn't just about doing great work - it's about remembering and proving it. Can you remember what you accomplished 23 weeks ago? Dayflow is a local-first macOS app that uses your screen data and AI to automatically journal your workday. No timers, no manual logging. Every bug fixed, doc written, and problem solved is captured - ready for standups, 1:1s, and performance reviews. Run any model (local or cloud), keep everything on your Mac. Open source, MIT licensed.
Here's a bitter lesson that everyone learns first-hand: the person who gets promoted isn't the one who did the best work. It's the one who can remember it and come with receipts.
You know the feeling. Your manager asks "what did you ship this quarter," and your mind goes blank. You spent three months heads-down, debugging the gnarly thing, unblocking teammates, rewriting the pipeline that was about to fall over, and now you're squinting at a git log trying to reverse-engineer your own life. The work was real. The memory of it just evaporated.
So the people who are great at narrating their work get ahead, and the people heads-down doing it get overlooked. That always felt backwards.
So we built Dayflow.
Dayflow runs quietly on your Mac, and uses your screen data + AI to turn your day into a clean timeline of what you actually worked on. No timers, no tagging. You just work, and at the end of the day there's an honest record of it.
Come review season, your brag doc is already written. When you wonder where the week went, there's an answer instead of a shrug.
🔒 Local-first and open source. The recording stays on your machine, and the code's on GitHub. 🧠 A witness, not a manager. It's yours, built to help you see your own work, not score you. ⚡ Zero effort. No categorizing, no Pomodoro guilt. It just runs.
🎁 For Product Hunt: a month of Dayflow Pro free. Or use Dayflow for free forever by bringing your own AI, whether that's a local model or plugging in your ChatGPT/Claude subscription.
I'll be around all day. I'd love to know: when someone asks what you got done this week, do you actually have an answer, or do you go blank too?
About Dayflow on Product Hunt
“Open source tools that help you get promoted”
Dayflow launched on Product Hunt on June 30th, 2026 and earned 143 upvotes and 26 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Getting promoted isn't just about doing great work - it's about remembering and proving it. Can you remember what you accomplished 23 weeks ago? Dayflow is a local-first macOS app that uses your screen data and AI to automatically journal your workday. No timers, no manual logging. Every bug fixed, doc written, and problem solved is captured - ready for standups, 1:1s, and performance reviews. Run any model (local or cloud), keep everything on your Mac. Open source, MIT licensed.
On the analytics side, Dayflow competes within Productivity, Open Source and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Dayflow performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Dayflow?
Dayflow was hunted by Garry Tan. 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 Dayflow including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Garry Tan
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Jerry, founder of Dayflow.
Here's a bitter lesson that everyone learns first-hand: the person who gets promoted isn't the one who did the best work. It's the one who can remember it and come with receipts.
You know the feeling. Your manager asks "what did you ship this quarter," and your mind goes blank. You spent three months heads-down, debugging the gnarly thing, unblocking teammates, rewriting the pipeline that was about to fall over, and now you're squinting at a git log trying to reverse-engineer your own life. The work was real. The memory of it just evaporated.
So the people who are great at narrating their work get ahead, and the people heads-down doing it get overlooked. That always felt backwards.
So we built Dayflow.
Dayflow runs quietly on your Mac, and uses your screen data + AI to turn your day into a clean timeline of what you actually worked on. No timers, no tagging. You just work, and at the end of the day there's an honest record of it.
Come review season, your brag doc is already written. When you wonder where the week went, there's an answer instead of a shrug.
🔒 Local-first and open source. The recording stays on your machine, and the code's on GitHub.
🧠 A witness, not a manager. It's yours, built to help you see your own work, not score you.
⚡ Zero effort. No categorizing, no Pomodoro guilt. It just runs.
🎁 For Product Hunt: a month of Dayflow Pro free. Or use Dayflow for free forever by bringing your own AI, whether that's a local model or plugging in your ChatGPT/Claude subscription.
I'll be around all day. I'd love to know: when someone asks what you got done this week, do you actually have an answer, or do you go blank too?