Hey everyone Tery here, founder of MyHandler.
Quick TL;DR on what MyHandler is: a local-first AI assistant for Windows that watches your screen, meetings, emails, files, and cloud channels (ie. Slack, Teams, etc..) and keeps all your data on YOUR machine instead of someone else's cloud. Think if LittleBird, Granola and Wispr-Flow had a baby. But unlike the parents, the baby never leaves home. ;-)
The actual story:
A few months ago I had this same product working as a CLOUD AI assistant. It worked great. But then I caught myself thinking: if some other company asked me to upload my entire digital life to their servers... like I was expecting MY customers to do ...I'd say no without thinking. Lol. I was building the exact product I personally would NEVER use.
So I pivoted. Deleted a ridiculous amount of working code and rebuilt it as a local-first Windows app. Hybrid approach: cloud model default for speed (Zero Data Retention, only the minimal context for the current question ever leaves), with a one-click switch to a fully on-device LLM (Qwen 3.5 4B via llama.cpp). Classification and storage always happen locally either way.
