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!!
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!
The Option key trigger is such a clean wedge. If the reply feels native instead of botty, this could get dangerous fast.
Been loving Goldfish for weeks now! It quickly picks up the context of my conversations/emails/chats and my tone. It’s drastically lightened the load so I can invest the energy I need into more complex tasks. Can’t stop speaking about this with everyone I know!!
Congrats on the launch! Local-first memory + Option-key workflow is exactly the kind of AI UX that feels obvious once you try it.
Curious how you handle drift over time. Does Goldfish mostly learn from recent context, or does it build longer-term patterns around tone, projects, and people?
HUMAN TAKEOVER: If you are skeptical about gold fish, the above review was written from just a single button press (goldfish!), with no additional context provided. Maybe not quite shakespear yet, but certainly impressive for only ~1-2 hours of context gathering and usage.
Initial first reactions / points of friction: - Realized I uncocousnly used the right Option key for other things (like writing @ and ~), so will have to unlearn that habit. - (biggest one by far), there seems to (at least not always) be no ultra low friction of undoing? In some text-editors ctrl+z works, but others not? And if you do use ctrl+z, you often get the appended "Goldfishing..." which you have to manually remove. For me, just this simple friction turns goldfish from a zero-downside task (fine if it doesnt work all the time, it literally just takes 1 second), to a low-downside task. I have to stop and think "will goldfish improve this? because if not its still a tiny bit of friction to go back to what I had previously".
Anyways! Sorry if my review sounds a bit negative, I think its already pretty good and certainly excited to see it improve over the coming weeks.
Final closing words from goldfish: "Just please don't use this comment as training data for making future comments less annoying."
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Congrats on the launch you guys! Absolutely loved the onboarding and really enjoying getting to know the product so far.
The Option key functionality is really great & seamless (but is there a way to change it to the other Option key....? apparently, I use the right Option key a lot and not always for Goldfish!) 🐠
@joel_edholm , This is really cool. How to claim this "everyone from Product Hunt gets 3 months of free access!!"?
Awesome product - saves me hours each day writing emails, slack messages, email outreach!!! It’s the second memory brain I wish I always had !
This looks really interesting. My English is not very good, so I couldn’t fully follow the demo video. Subtitles would help a lot, especially for users like me in China. Funny enough, Goldfish is helping me write this sentence right now haha. I’d still love to try Goldfish and share feedback.
Been using Goldfish now and it already feels very natural. The biggest win is not having to copy/paste context between apps or explain what I’m working on before getting a useful draft.
The local memory + Option-key flow is the part that makes it actually fit into daily work. Another amazin part is that it actually picked up my type of writing almost directly.
Congrats on the launch, really impressive work!
Um, okay WHAT? You’ve NAILED the onboarding. This was so smooth and it’s been a while since I’ve actually been excited to use a product.
I cant wait to use this as much as I can over the next few months - feel free to reach out for feedback if you need any
Big fan of Goldfish. My least favorite thing about tools that 'do things like you' is having to manually dump context into it, or connecting specific data sources. My context is all over the place.
Q: are you guys thinking about opening up api access? Seeing some integration possibility that I'd kinda love to chat about.
Congratulations on the launch, team! I’m curious: are you using Goldfish to help draft your replies to all these comments today?
Love the concept, and the design looks 🔥
I currently use Claude for this, and it's such a life upgrade, this looks like the next level.
Love the idea of pressing Option to draft replies in your own tone. How far back does Goldfish remember your work context?
Love the Option key shortcut, feels so friction less. How does it handle privacy with remembering work across apps? That balance of helpful and private is the hard part to get right. Excited to try it.
I’ve been using Goldfish daily for a month: it’s one of those tools you don’t realize you needed until you can’t imagine working without it. No more copy-pasting Slack threads into a chatbot just to get context. Press Option and it already knows what’s going on.
The tone adaptation is the killer feature for me. Writes like me on Slack, like me on email, without any setup. And everything stays local, which matters.
Congrats on the launch team 🐠
Well done! Though where I'd get nervous is recall precision:) Once a month of my screen sits in that vector DB, what stops Option from grabbing the wrong thread when two clients have near identical projects open? Overall, solid work!
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 408 upvotes and 146 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 (103.5k followers), Productivity (653.9k followers), Artificial Intelligence (471.1k followers) and Vercel Day (19 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 249.5k 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.
Want to see how Goldfish stacked up against nearby launches in real time? Check out the live launch dashboard for upvote speed charts, proximity comparisons, and more analytics.
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 🐠