<p>Hey Product Hunt 👋 Joel here, one of the two Swedish founders building Goldfish.<br></p><p><strong>Why we built it:</strong></p><p></p><p>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!</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>That felt backwards to us.</p><p></p><p><strong>What Goldfish is:</strong></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Press ⌥ Option in any text field and Goldfish can help you:</p><ul><li><p>write replies in your own tone, with the thread and relationship context already there</p></li><li><p>summarize messy work from Slack, Gmail, docs, tabs, or meetings</p></li><li><p>recall things you saw, wrote, read, or discussed</p></li><li><p>rewrite highlighted text without touching the rest</p></li><li><p>bring your full computer context into Claude Desktop through our local MCP server</p></li></ul><p><strong>What we believe:</strong></p><p></p><p>The best AI product won’t be another empty chat box.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><strong>Early traction:</strong></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><strong>Privacy:</strong></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><strong>Product Hunt offer:</strong></p><p></p><p>Goldfish is still in closed beta, but we’re opening early access to the Product Hunt community first.</p><p>As a thank you, everyone from Product Hunt gets <strong>3 months of free access!! </strong></p><p></p><p>Download now at <a href="https://goldfish.sh/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">goldfish.sh</a></p><p></p><p><strong>We’d love feedback on:</strong></p><ul><li><p>where it feels magical</p></li><li><p>where it gets context wrong</p></li><li><p>what more you’d want goldfish to do in the future</p></li></ul><p>Thanks for checking us out 🐠</p>
<p>This is one of the more interesting AI products I’ve seen here recently.</p><p></p><p>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. 😅</p><p></p><p>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! :)</p><p></p><p>Curious how much control users have over what Goldfish remembers or ignores. Can I exclude specific apps, websites, projects, or time periods from memory?</p>
<p>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.<br></p><p>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.<br></p><p>Super excited to see this live on PH 🐠</p>
