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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Humalike
Congrats on the launch! How do you plan to handle feedback in these early days?
Goldfish
@borrellbr Thanks Ignacio! We’re keeping the feedback loop very direct in these early days. Users can report feedback in the app, through Discord or Slack, and we’re also reaching out regularly to understand what’s working, what’s confusing, and where Goldfish gets the context wrong.
The goal is to ship quickly from real usage, not guess from the outside.
Albato Embedded
The pain of re‑explaining projects 50 times a day is real! Goldfish nails that. Excited to see how early adopters shape the roadmap
Goldfish
@mariia_sosnina thank you Mariia! Exactly why we built it, the context reset gets painful fast.
Roadmap-wise we’re learning a lot from early adopters right now, especially where Goldfish feels magical, where it gets context wrong, and what controls people want around memory. Have you tried it? What do you think :)?
Since Goldfish is sitting across everything on the Mac messages, docs, tabs, meetings, how are you handling the privacy side of that? Is everything processed locally or does any of it leave the device when it's helping you draft something?
Goldfish
@ana_popescu2 Privacy is core to this. The memory stays on your Mac in a local database, with no cloud sync and no backend where we can browse your data.
When Goldfish helps draft something, it uses the relevant local context, and AI calls have zero data retention. You can also pause capture whenever you want, exclude specific apps or domains, and delete stored history.
AI has memory like a goldfish is such a good way to put it. The real tax of every AI tool right now isn't the thinking, it's the re-explaining. How does Goldfish decide what's actually relevant context vs. just noise from everything open on the Mac? Feels like that filtering is the hard part.
Goldfish
@andrew_paul11 We think about it less as “throw everything into memory” and more as ranking a few layers separately.
The current surface wins first: the field you’re typing in, the thread around it, the app/window you’re in. Then recent activity is used for handoffs, like if you just switched from a doc or Slack thread into an email reply. Longer-term memory is mostly for patterns around people, projects, tone, and recurring work.
If Goldfish is unsure, it should stay general or ask, not confidently pull in some random tab from earlier. That filtering is definitely the hard part. More memory is easy, choosing the right memory is the product.
How does Goldfish handle forgetting old context that's no longer relevant like a finished project or an old draft? Is that automatic or does the user manage it?
Goldfish
@carlos_leonardo1 it’s mostly automatic. Goldfish prioritizes recent context for “what am I doing right now?” and uses longer-term memory more for patterns around projects, people, and tone.
Old stuff should naturally decay in relevance when you move on, but you can also control it manually: pause capture, exclude specific apps/domains, or delete stored history. The goal is that a finished project doesn’t keep leaking into unrelated drafts just because it once mattered.
Congratulations!!!
Goldfish
@madalina_barbu
Thank you Madalina!!
Build Check
Hey Joel! It's so cool man. Guessing how it takes my own voice, vibe, jargon and so on. Anyway it's super interesting and I'm sure you gonna rock it
Goldfish
@german_merlo1 Thanks Germán! Really glad it picked up on the voice/vibe part, that’s exactly the feeling we’re trying to nail. Appreciate the support! 🐠
@joel_edholm hello, great app tbh. but i have 1 ques, is there a way to disable the orange line in the top of the screen and if i want to talk to goldfish i press on it directly? thanks in advance
Goldfish
@joel_edholm @itzw0lf You can turn on auto-hide in settings. Then just press Goldfish when you want it to appear on your desktop.
@itzw0lf hope you found it! What have been your main use cases?
Congrats on a great idea and pretty good execution. But a few things still feel rough:
1. It is 2026, and settings plus non-standard UX are a big distraction, especially when working across multiple screens.
2. Goldfish often seems to generate before fully reading the current context, so it loses the thread. It would be more useful if the icon showed actual Goldfish activity/status instead of just a fish flying around the screen.
Goldfish
@igor_gnot1 Hi Igor! :)
For 1, what parts felt rough specifically, the settings flow, multi-screen behavior, or something else?
For 2 you can usually steer it with a clearer prompt today, but would you prefer instead of "goldfishing.." for it to animate the actual goldfish? :-)
@igor_gnot1 thanks Igor, fair push. appreciate the direct feedback 🐠
I had to try Goldfish right here on Product Hunt while writing this comment. This is exactly where the product makes sense: it picks up the context without making you explain everything first.