Yanshu learns from the work you already do. It spots repeated tasks across files, messages, and workflows, then turns the best patterns into apps and automations. No process mapping or blank canvas—just the routines worth systemizing. Use it to automate recurring work, build lightweight internal tools, and speed up daily ops without writing code.
Hi everyone. This is Bo. One of the builder of Yansu.
We set out a vision of bespoke software at scale. All of the software in the future will tailored to your exact needs and drifting with you as you change and grow.
However, we see two challenges. First, not everyone has the time, energy or intention to build for themselves. Second, for those building they have to tinkering with it a lot to build the right thing and continue managing it.
We solve this with two new ideas:
Switching the relationship between software and human/user. Software is the proactive actor and human/user is the reactive one. Software is proactively and automatically created for you. You don’t have to wage any energy on it.
Observe your screens and summarize and understand your intentions without you explicitly telling the AI. This solves the drift and tinkering problem.
When these two ideas comes together, you have an app that is:
Continuously understand, build and refine knowledge about you and the entities that relate to you.
From observation and understanding it proactively builds the right app for your exact needs:
Take over your current task and automatically complete it via Hand-Off
Understand your daily patterns and generate scheduled automations.
Understand your unique challenges and options and create bespoke desktop apps just for you.
We believe these capabilities not just right one for future and also extremely powerful today. Hand-off feature has many WOW moments for me and I am still blowing away by it.
Give it a try and let us what do you think. We are here to answer questions and discuss about roadmap and the thinking behind it.
Have fun!
Bo
PS. Since many asked about privacy. I want to share how we think about it. Trust and Privacy is the most important element for us. It is the value we do not trade off. How does it reflect in the app: 1. All information are stored locally 2. All OCR/audio are processed locally 3. We proactively remove ANY PII information 4. Users have full control of what app can be observed 5. Users have quick action can stop it anytime
Had a question: I do have a memory.md in Claude and I have configured such that Claude will keep adding new learnings into that file and that is messy. Because Claude decides what to store into that memory over time, and it ends up storing a lot of fluff.
Is Yansu sort of an "Obsidian" + "memory.md" which automatically updates over time?
Really interesting direction, especially the shift from “tools you configure” to “systems that interpret intent and act on it”. Curious how you’re thinking about the trust boundary in cases where the system proactively executes something the user didn’t explicitly initiate that’s usually where adoption either accelerates or breaks.
Yansu watching how you work and building the automation before you ask is a fundamentally different take on AI productivity. I've seen too many AI assistant tools that just surface a chat box. We've been building in the customer success for ops-heavy SaaS teams space, and Yansu touches on something we think about a lot. How long does it typically take before Yansu starts producing something useful?
@bozhao I like the idea of discovering workflows from what people already do instead of asking them to start with a blank automation canvas. Most users don’t know how to “design a workflow,” but they definitely know the repetitive work they keep doing every week.
Congrats on launching. What tasks can it automate... marketing, dev or more? Is there a landing page I can see the most common use cases?
The correction flow matters a lot here because “AI inferred intent” should never become “AI quietly changed the wrong thing.”
Does it have a library of public workflows for common tasks? A marketplace like n8N where someone can create a workflow, list it publicly and then monetize it.
How do you avoid the “filter bubble” problem where Yansu only reinforces your current habits instead of exposing you to better unknown workflows?
This is interesting, but is there way to flag certain commands/actions to be executed only when I give confirmation? there is still a chance it can do mistake, right?
I think the most valuable thing in the AI age is your SOPs, your processes, and how you do things, and not really automation. Automation is easy, but your processes are unique to you. I think if your process can be converted to workflows, this tool is incredibly useful.
Could Yansu eventually observe emotional or cognitive load (e.g., task switching fatigue) and proactively simplify or defer automations accordingly?
How does Yansu handle compliance in regulated industries where proactive software changes might violate audit trails or approval workflows?
Hand off automation sounds like a productivity superpower. can Yansu take over multi step tasks that span across three or four different software tools at once?
What’s the hardest trade-off you’ve made between being proactively helpful versus staying out of the user’s way?
How does Yansu handle scenarios where your observed behavior is inefficient, will it proactively suggest a better way or just replicate your existing patterns?
You said software becomes the proactive actor—does Yansu ever initiate a task without any prior observed signal, just based on predictive intuition?
Does Yansu have a feedback loop where the user’s rejection or modification of a suggestion trains future proactive behavior?
About Yansu on Product Hunt
“AI that learns how you work and turns it into software”
Yansu launched on Product Hunt on May 25th, 2026 and earned 247 upvotes and 82 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. Yanshu learns from the work you already do. It spots repeated tasks across files, messages, and workflows, then turns the best patterns into apps and automations. No process mapping or blank canvas—just the routines worth systemizing. Use it to automate recurring work, build lightweight internal tools, and speed up daily ops without writing code.
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Justin Jincaid
Hi everyone. This is Bo. One of the builder of Yansu.
We set out a vision of bespoke software at scale. All of the software in the future will tailored to your exact needs and drifting with you as you change and grow.
However, we see two challenges. First, not everyone has the time, energy or intention to build for themselves. Second, for those building they have to tinkering with it a lot to build the right thing and continue managing it.
We solve this with two new ideas:
Switching the relationship between software and human/user. Software is the proactive actor and human/user is the reactive one. Software is proactively and automatically created for you. You don’t have to wage any energy on it.
Observe your screens and summarize and understand your intentions without you explicitly telling the AI. This solves the drift and tinkering problem.
When these two ideas comes together, you have an app that is:
Continuously understand, build and refine knowledge about you and the entities that relate to you.
From observation and understanding it proactively builds the right app for your exact needs:
Take over your current task and automatically complete it via Hand-Off
Understand your daily patterns and generate scheduled automations.
Understand your unique challenges and options and create bespoke desktop apps just for you.
We believe these capabilities not just right one for future and also extremely powerful today. Hand-off feature has many WOW moments for me and I am still blowing away by it.
Give it a try and let us what do you think. We are here to answer questions and discuss about roadmap and the thinking behind it.
Have fun!
Bo
PS. Since many asked about privacy. I want to share how we think about it.
Trust and Privacy is the most important element for us. It is the value we do not trade off.
How does it reflect in the app:
1. All information are stored locally
2. All OCR/audio are processed locally
3. We proactively remove ANY PII information
4. Users have full control of what app can be observed
5. Users have quick action can stop it anytime