Most AI tools make you explain the context before they can help. Goldfish already has it. It privately remembers what you’ve been working on across your Mac, then helps you write better from any app. Press Option in a text field to draft replies, summarize threads, rewrite sentences, or recall important details from your recent work without copying, pasting, or re-explaining the whole backstory.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 Joel here, one of the two Swedish founders building Goldfish.
Why we built it:
We started building Goldfish because AI still has one weird problem: it knows the internet, but not the work sitting right in front of you. AI has memory like a goldfish!
Your messages, docs, tabs, meetings, half-written drafts, people, decisions, and loose threads already live on your computer. But every time you open a chatbot, you start from zero again. You paste the thread, explain the project, describe the person, and try to make it sound like you.
That felt backwards to us.
What Goldfish is:
Goldfish is a private AI memory layer for your Mac. It understands what you’re working on across apps, then lets you use that context anywhere you type.
Press ⌥ Option in any text field and Goldfish can help you:
write replies in your own tone, with the thread and relationship context already there
summarize messy work from Slack, Gmail, docs, tabs, or meetings
recall things you saw, wrote, read, or discussed
rewrite highlighted text without touching the rest
bring your full computer context into Claude Desktop through our local MCP server
What we believe:
The best AI product won’t be another empty chat box.
It will be the memory layer underneath your work. Something that understands your context privately, shows up where you already are, and removes the need to re-explain yourself 50 times a day.
Early traction:
We’ve worked closely with 1,000+ founding members to build a product people can’t live without. GTM people at ElevenLabs, Deel, and Vercel are already using Goldfish to write faster replies in their own tone.
Our founding team comes from Strawberry Browser (General Catalyst) and Depict (YC20), and we’re currently building from The Bridge by Entrepreneur First in San Francisco.
Privacy:
Privacy is core to the product. Your memory stays on your Mac in a local database. No cloud sync, no backend where we can browse your data, and you can stop capture of apps and domains any time. AI calls have zero data retention.
Product Hunt offer:
Goldfish is still in closed beta, but we’re opening early access to the Product Hunt community first.
As a thank you, everyone from Product Hunt gets 3 months of free access!!
Loving this! The onboarding was super smooth, your video walk through demo was really slick. I like that it just reads what is on my screen and knows the context of what I'm doing in order to make the auto-typed replies extremely relevant. I also like your commitment to privacy, keeping data local as possible, and not retaining data sent to gpt. Great work! I'm excited to see where this goes.
p.s. Making LinkedIn part of your onboarding demo so it could scrape info about me from my profile to train on initially... I saw what you did there ;-)
@joel_edholm hello, great app tbh. but i have 1 ques, is there a way to disable the orange line in the top of the screen and if i want to talk to goldfish i press on it directly? thanks in advance
the recall important details from your recent work use case is the one that interests me most and also the one hardest to evaluate from a description. the value depends entirely on how reliably it surfaces the right detail at the right moment versus surfacing something adjacent that's close but wrong. an AI that confidently recalls the wrong version of a number or date from recent work is worse than no recall at all. what does a typical recall failure look like and how does the user know when to trust it
Huge congrats on the launch 🚀 Excited to see Goldfish grow, wishing you all the success you deserve!
The challenge with AI memory is often trust and relevance. How do you prevent important details from getting buried as more conversations accumulate?
Hey Ben, Goldfish looks like a genuinely clever take on ambient AI. How does it handle context switches between work projects or clients that have very different tones?
Just got set up. Onboarding was a bit clunky but overall really novel and refreshing. Love it so far. Interested to see how useful this is after a few weeks of use. The option key doesn't seem to work with Atlas browser.
This is great! How big can the context get?
I also saw you using graphs, I guess it is to increase accuracy. So how is the memory layer structured?
Congrats on the launch! 🐠
Goldfish has the best onboarding experience I’ve ever had. Genuinely blew my mind.
Also, yes, this comment was written using Goldfish ✨
Congrats on the launch! I have a small question, with Goldfish capturing context across so many apps, how does it filter out irrelevant noise when you're rapidly switching between unrelated projects throughout the day?
the 'replies like you' part is what i'm most curious about. how do you handle voice consistency across contexts where someone writes very differently (boss vs partner vs friend)? is the model learning per recipient or one general voice trained on all past replies?
Congrats on the launch! I've tried the beta and really like the UI and ambition. I'm curious: what's your own/the team's favorite use cases in everyday work?
Wow, this hits right where it hurts. 🐠
The "goldfish memory" of current AI tools is easily the most frustrating part of my daily workflow. I waste so much time copy-pasting Slack threads or brief docs into Claude just to get a relevant reply. Having that context accessible natively with just the ⌥ Option key sounds like a massive productivity unlock.
Love the local database approach for privacy too, that's usually the biggest blocker for these kinds of tools.
Congrats on the launch Joel!
Quick question: how does Goldfish handle context switching? If I move from a client email to a technical dev task, does it easily separate the two "memories" when I press Option?
the context problem is real and underrated. most AI writing tools make you re-explain the situation every single time, which kills the flow. the passive memory angle is interesting, curious how it handles switching between very different work contexts (e.g. a support thread vs a technical doc vs a slack message where tone should be completely different).
wow this product is gold. well done!
I do have a few questions on the infrastructure:
Is a local model used to generate the replies?
How does It formulate a reply in the language (writing style) of the user?
Does it only work with what is given on the screen in realtime?
This is so good! Surprisingly works for pretty much any task you could think of, have been using it for the past 3 weeks
It's a smart goldfish that you can talk to and prompt to write messages for you.
Hey, Joel. I really appreciate your innovation. I was pleasantly surprised by your project—it’s actually amazing! However, I’m a bit worried about security. Since Goldfish can see everything in every app on my computer, what guarantees do I have that it’s not actually spying on me? For example, when I’m doing something very private, how can I be sure that the info won’t be accessed by Goldfish or even stolen by hackers? Otherwise, I’m really impressed by your creative mind!
About Goldfish on Product Hunt
“Press Option. It knows your work and replies like you”
Goldfish launched on Product Hunt on June 16th, 2026 and earned 606 upvotes and 186 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Most AI tools make you explain the context before they can help. Goldfish already has it. It privately remembers what you’ve been working on across your Mac, then helps you write better from any app. Press Option in a text field to draft replies, summarize threads, rewrite sentences, or recall important details from your recent work without copying, pasting, or re-explaining the whole backstory.
Goldfish was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Productivity (655.7k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.1k followers) and Vercel Day (20 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 259.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Goldfish?
Goldfish was hunted by Ben Lang. 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.
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Ben Lang
Hey Product Hunt 👋 Joel here, one of the two Swedish founders building Goldfish.
Why we built it:
We started building Goldfish because AI still has one weird problem: it knows the internet, but not the work sitting right in front of you. AI has memory like a goldfish!
Your messages, docs, tabs, meetings, half-written drafts, people, decisions, and loose threads already live on your computer. But every time you open a chatbot, you start from zero again. You paste the thread, explain the project, describe the person, and try to make it sound like you.
That felt backwards to us.
What Goldfish is:
Goldfish is a private AI memory layer for your Mac. It understands what you’re working on across apps, then lets you use that context anywhere you type.
Press ⌥ Option in any text field and Goldfish can help you:
write replies in your own tone, with the thread and relationship context already there
summarize messy work from Slack, Gmail, docs, tabs, or meetings
recall things you saw, wrote, read, or discussed
rewrite highlighted text without touching the rest
bring your full computer context into Claude Desktop through our local MCP server
What we believe:
The best AI product won’t be another empty chat box.
It will be the memory layer underneath your work. Something that understands your context privately, shows up where you already are, and removes the need to re-explain yourself 50 times a day.
Early traction:
We’ve worked closely with 1,000+ founding members to build a product people can’t live without. GTM people at ElevenLabs, Deel, and Vercel are already using Goldfish to write faster replies in their own tone.
Our founding team comes from Strawberry Browser (General Catalyst) and Depict (YC20), and we’re currently building from The Bridge by Entrepreneur First in San Francisco.
Privacy:
Privacy is core to the product. Your memory stays on your Mac in a local database. No cloud sync, no backend where we can browse your data, and you can stop capture of apps and domains any time. AI calls have zero data retention.
Product Hunt offer:
Goldfish is still in closed beta, but we’re opening early access to the Product Hunt community first.
As a thank you, everyone from Product Hunt gets 3 months of free access!!
Download now at goldfish.sh
We’d love feedback on:
where it feels magical
where it gets context wrong
what more you’d want goldfish to do in the future
Thanks for checking us out 🐠