Michael Hill

Michael Hill

Founder of the Attic — local-only apps
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I'm Michael, founder of M.R.H. Consultants Inc. I built The Attic — five small, local-only desktop apps that pull your scattered email, photos, documents, chats and contacts into one private archive on your own computer. No cloud, no account, one-time purchase. After 25 years in enterprise software, I'm building the tools I always wished existed.

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  • The Attic Suite
    The Attic SuitePull your scattered digital life into one private place
    Sep 2026
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    Joined Product HuntSeptember 16th, 2026

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5d ago

Launching The Attic Suite this Sunday — the backstory, and I'd love your take before I do

Hi all I'm Michael, launching The Attic Suite here on Sunday. Wanted to start a thread ahead of it to share the backstory and get your input before launch day.

It began with one stubborn problem: consolidating my family's email. It turned out to be 736,000 messages across 236 old backup files half of them duplicates. I built a local tool to fix it, then realized the same mess was everywhere: 472,982 photos across drives and dead phones, documents in a hundred folders, chat exports nobody could open, contacts split across a stack of old phones. Same problem, five times over.

So it became five small desktop apps EmailAttic, PictureAttic, DocAttic, ChatAttic, ContactAttic that each gather your scattered data, de-duplicate it, and organize it into one archive on your own computer. Everything runs locally: nothing uploaded, no account, no subscription.

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2d ago

The Attic Suite - Pull your scattered digital life into one private place

The Attic is five local desktop apps — EmailAttic, PictureAttic, DocAttic, ChatAttic, ContactAttic — that pull your scattered data (old backups, dead phones, cloud exports) into one de-duplicated archive on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded, no account, no subscription: buy one app, a Trio, or the whole Suite. Born from consolidating one family's 736,000 emails and 472,982 photos.
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