Goldfish: AI Tool That Knows Your Work Context on Mac
Goldfish is a Mac AI tool that uses a local memory layer to remember your work context, allowing you to draft replies, summarize threads, and rewrite sentences without re-explaining. It debuted on Product Hunt with early access.
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Press Option. It knows your work and replies like you
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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.
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3h ago
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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 🐠
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7d ago
This is one of the more interesting AI products I’ve seen here recently.
The part that resonates most is the “starting from zero every time” problem. As a founder, I constantly switch between product decisions, emails, support, launch copy, team messages, and random notes. Most AI tools are useful, but only after I spend time explaining the context again. 😅
The privacy approach is also important here. A product like this only works if users can actually trust it with messy, unfinished, sometimes sensitive work! :)
Curious how much control users have over what Goldfish remembers or ignores. Can I exclude specific apps, websites, projects, or time periods from memory?
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2h ago
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@andrasczeizel You can control it pretty tightly. You can pause capture whenever you want, and exclude specific apps or domains so they never get remembered.
The memory lives locally on your Mac, and you can delete stored history too. We built it assuming people will have messy, sensitive work on screen, so “what should Goldfish ignore?” is a core part of the product, not an afterthought! :-)
Our real power users are mostly founders, so I would love for you to try it! lmk if you have any feedback! :)
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2h ago
Wow gonna give this a try. Are the memories local?
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2h ago
Maker
@alexander_gusev3 Happy to hear that Alexander!
Yes, so everything is saved in a local sqlite database and a vector database! Let me know when you've tried it and if you have any feedback 🙏☺️
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2h ago
Maker
@alexander_gusev3 yes, fully local. Nobody can see your data, not even us the creators!
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2h ago
The "knows your work" part is where these tools either actually deliver or fall apart.
Curious what that means concretely here: are you indexing local files, pulling from open apps, reading browser tabs, or something else? And how does it handle context switching across very different types of work, like if I'm mid-deep-work on a coding problem and then get a Slack message about a completely separate client project, does it actually pick the right context or does it need a nudge?
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2h ago
Been using Goldfish for over a month now (super grateful to be given early access) and it genuinely fixes one of the most annoying parts of using AI: having to re-explain everything every single time.
The cross-app context is the killer bit. You can go from a thread, doc, email, or random tab straight into a text field and it already has enough context to help without the copy paste ritual.
Super excited to see this live on PH 🐠
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3h ago
Maker
@githubanant Thank you for the comments Anant, good use case with the cross-app context! Happy to hear that you find its useful!
Is there any other use case that has been good?
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2h ago
@kar_re the day/week recap thing is underrated. when i’m context switching a lot, it’s nice to just ask what i was working on and get the thread back instantly.
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2h ago
Maker
@githubanant thank you for the ridiculous support. this is exactly the thing we wanted Goldfish to kill: copy paste context rituals 🐠
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2h ago
I've been using Goldfish for more than 2 weeks now, and it's game-changer. A super useful use case for me is writing simple answers to email loops. Goldfish already has the context, the response are always very appropriate, and the Option key provides a seamless experience to use Goldfish in your workflow.
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2h ago
Maker
@el_pa_b Thank you so much Pierre-Antoine! Happy to hear that its useful for you. Have you tried it in French yet? 🇫🇷
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2h ago
@kar_re I did, and the results are very idiomatic! LFG!
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2h ago
Maker
@el_pa_b love that email loops became the use case. merci for pushing it so hard 🐠
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2h ago
this is very very cool, just tried it! :) is it able to change the tone of your reply to say your grandmother vs your best friend?
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1h ago
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