Goldfish - 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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Causo
Big fan of Goldfish. My least favorite thing about tools that 'do things like you' is having to manually dump context into it, or connecting specific data sources. My context is all over the place.
Q: are you guys thinking about opening up api access? Seeing some integration possibility that I'd kinda love to chat about.
@dawid_baranowski yes, definitely. API access is one of the things we’re thinking through, we've seen some interest from other companies as well!
Would love to chat - ping me on kaspian [at] goldfish.sh! :-D
@arathy_kushalappa1 this made my day. would genuinely love feedback as you use it more, especially where it gets context wrong or feels surprisingly useful 🐠
Been using Goldfish now and it already feels very natural. The biggest win is not having to copy/paste context between apps or explain what I’m working on before getting a useful draft.
The local memory + Option-key flow is the part that makes it actually fit into daily work. Another amazin part is that it actually picked up my type of writing almost directly.
Congrats on the launch, really impressive work!
@mhogfeldt thank you!! the writing style part makes me extra happy to hear, because that’s the part that’s hardest to fake and easiest to feel when it’s wrong 🐠
Do you have any specific usecases you use goldfish for?
This looks really interesting. My English is not very good, so I couldn’t fully follow the demo video. Subtitles would help a lot, especially for users like me in China. Funny enough, Goldfish is helping me write this sentence right now haha. I’d still love to try Goldfish and share feedback.
@xiya_ai thank you for the heads up, that’s super useful feedback. Subtitles are definitely a good point. Really cool that Goldfish helped you write the comment too haha 🐠
Subtitles will definitely come in the upcoming updates!
Awesome product - saves me hours each day writing emails, slack messages, email outreach!!! It’s the second memory brain I wish I always had !
@oliver_begley love to hear that!! Especially for emails and Slack, that’s exactly where it starts compounding fast.
Anything you’d want us to improve after using it more? 🐠
Congrats on the launch you guys! Absolutely loved the onboarding and really enjoying getting to know the product so far.
The Option key functionality is really great & seamless (but is there a way to change it to the other Option key....? apparently, I use the right Option key a lot and not always for Goldfish!) 🐠
@josephinedt Hi Josephine!
Thank you so much, I'm happy to hear that! 🙏
Yes, you can rebind the option key to whatever you want in the settings after the onboarding! Just press the settings->shortcuts page. There you can also enable transcription.
Have you found any specific use case that goldfish is extra suitable for? 🐠
Congrats on the launch! Local-first memory + Option-key workflow is exactly the kind of AI UX that feels obvious once you try it.
Curious how you handle drift over time. Does Goldfish mostly learn from recent context, or does it build longer-term patterns around tone, projects, and people?
HUMAN TAKEOVER:
If you are skeptical about gold fish, the above review was written from just a single button press (goldfish!), with no additional context provided. Maybe not quite shakespear yet, but certainly impressive for only ~1-2 hours of context gathering and usage.
Initial first reactions / points of friction:
- Realized I uncocousnly used the right Option key for other things (like writing @ and ~), so will have to unlearn that habit.
- (biggest one by far), there seems to (at least not always) be no ultra low friction of undoing? In some text-editors ctrl+z works, but others not? And if you do use ctrl+z, you often get the appended "Goldfishing..." which you have to manually remove. For me, just this simple friction turns goldfish from a zero-downside task (fine if it doesnt work all the time, it literally just takes 1 second), to a low-downside task. I have to stop and think "will goldfish improve this? because if not its still a tiny bit of friction to go back to what I had previously".
Anyways! Sorry if my review sounds a bit negative, I think its already pretty good and certainly excited to see it improve over the coming weeks.
Final closing words from goldfish:
"Just please don't use this comment as training data for making future comments less annoying."
🤷♂️
@felix_bergstrom
Thanks Felix, this is super useful.
On drift, it uses both. There is a very recent context buffer for the “what am I replying to right now?” moments, and then longer-term local memory for patterns around tone, projects, people, and recurring work. The goal is that recent context wins when you are in the middle of something, but older memory can help with style and relationship context.
does goldfish trigger when you press right option for @? it should recognize its a part of a chord, but if it does not lmk!
And yeah, the undo friction is real. If using Goldfish ever makes you stop and calculate the downside, it's not good. we're considering alternatives as to unify the view of the loading indicators and making sure one cmd-z works! another benefit would be if you could launch several goldfishes in different textboxes at the same time
Thank you for the review and thoughts! 🐠
The Option key trigger is such a clean wedge. If the reply feels native instead of botty, this could get dangerous fast.
thanks @sarveshsea , that's the exact line we're trying to hit, native first, AI second 🐠
have you tried it? What do you think? :- D
Trice
@joel_edholm , This is really cool. How to claim this "everyone from Product Hunt gets 3 months of free access!!"?
@surenganne Hey Surendra! It's active by default when you register today, so just make sure to test goldfish today and you will get the free access! 🐠 Have you tested it yet?
Hey, Joel. I really appreciate your innovation. I was pleasantly surprised by your project—it’s actually amazing! However, I’m a bit worried about security. Since Goldfish can see everything in every app on my computer, what guarantees do I have that it’s not actually spying on me? For example, when I’m doing something very private, how can I be sure that the info won’t be accessed by Goldfish or even stolen by hackers? Otherwise, I’m really impressed by your creative mind!