Hey Product Hunt!
I’m Ben, the founder and builder of Hansel.
I built Hansel because my work is increasingly scattered across issues, browser tabs, email, chats, and meetings. Each place contains part of the story, but by the end of the day I can still struggle to answer a basic question: what did I actually do?
Hansel creates a private history of that workday that I can ask questions about including “What did I do today?”
Privacy was a product constraint from the beginning. By default, your activity history, chats, screenshots, and recordings are stored only on your Mac and are always encrypted. The encryption keys stay in your Mac’s Keychain. AI requests only go to providers with zero-data-retention policies.
Hansel is for people doing complex work across a lot of tools, especially people managing AI agents, projects, meetings, and communication at the same time.
My request is simple: install Hansel, use it for one real workday, and ask what you did at the end of the day. If the answer doesn’t match your day, tell me what it missed.
I’ll be here answering questions and learning from everyone who tries it!
About Hansel on Product Hunt
“Remember everything you've worked on”
Hansel launched on Product Hunt on August 5th, 2026 and earned 110 upvotes and 15 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. Hansel helps you remember what you worked on, find past context, and answer questions about your workday. Your data stays encrypted on your Mac.
On the analytics side, Hansel competes within Productivity and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hansel performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hansel?
Hansel was hunted by Ben Williams. 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 Hansel including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Ben Williams