Launched this week
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.
The challenge with AI memory is often trust and relevance. How do you prevent important details from getting buried as more conversations accumulate?
@harini_mukesh This is basically the core design problem for Goldfish.
We don’t treat memory as one giant chat history. It’s split into layers: the immediate screen context, recent activity, longer-term summaries, and entity/project-level memory. When you press Option, Goldfish first anchors on what you’re doing right now, then pulls in only the memory that looks relevant to that surface.
Important details should also become easier to retrieve over time, not harder. So instead of relying on raw conversation logs forever, Goldfish distills repeated people, projects, preferences, and commitments into more structured memory.
And there are controls for excluding things you don’t want remembered, because trust only works if the user can shape the memory.
@kar_re This makes a lot of sense. The layered memory approach feels much more practical than treating everything as one long chat history. User controls for memory seem like a must-have for trust.
@harini_mukesh exactly, user controls are non-negotiable here. People need to be able to exclude apps, domains, and sensitive surfaces, otherwise the product starts feeling creepy instead of useful.
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!
Just got set up. Onboarding was a bit clunky but overall really novel and refreshing. Love it so far. Interested to see how useful this is after a few weeks of use. The option key doesn't seem to work with Atlas browser.
@goldhaxx Thanks for flagging this, Zach! Atlas is likely blocking or exposing the focused field differently than Safari/Chrome, so we’ll take a look and add a fix if we can. Appreciate the comment - we're looking into increasing stability as we speak! 🙏🐠
Wow gonna give this a try. Are the memories local?
@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 🙏☺️
@alexander_gusev3 yes, fully local. Nobody can see your data, not even us the creators!
@alexander_gusev3 @joel_edholm Perhaps when certain conditions are met? Like turning on a VPN or when a browser is switched to incognito mode?
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@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?
@surenganne Just sign up, it will be automatically applied! Go loco and let us know your feedback
I’ve been using Goldfish daily for a month: it’s one of those tools you don’t realize you needed until you can’t imagine working without it. No more copy-pasting Slack threads into a chatbot just to get context. Press Option and it already knows what’s going on.
The tone adaptation is the killer feature for me. Writes like me on Slack, like me on email, without any setup. And everything stays local, which matters.
Congrats on the launch team 🐠
@faustin_havard thank you faustin, this means a lot coming from you! 🐠
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 🐠
@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?
@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.
@githubanant Super nice! Yes, I agree :)! def underrated atm, will also get better over time I think!
@githubanant thank you for the ridiculous support. this is exactly the thing we wanted Goldfish to kill: copy paste context rituals 🐠