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!
Hey! I run an append-only log and a wiki as my company's external memory, daily. Does this go beyond what you did and also capture what you decided and why?
Curious to see how well it keeps track when you're bouncing between tabs, email, CRM, and AI tools all day :-)
Love the product, worried that companies might use this to track employees! :/
Juggling different tasks and trying to understand what useful stuff I got done today sounds familiar... I'd definitely try it if I had Mac. Looks promising! Good luck on your launch, Ben!
finally something that actually gets my messy work context without making me dig through a million folders lol
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.
Hansel was featured in Productivity (657.9k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (475.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 263.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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.
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