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Hey Product Hunt!
I’m Ben, the founder and builder of Hansel.
I built Hansel because my work is increasingly scattered across issues, browser tabs, email, chats, and meetings. Each place contains part of the story, but by the end of the day I can still struggle to answer a basic question: what did I actually do?
Hansel creates a private history of that workday that I can ask questions about including “What did I do today?”
Privacy was a product constraint from the beginning. By default, your activity history, chats, screenshots, and recordings are stored only on your Mac and are always encrypted. The encryption keys stay in your Mac’s Keychain. AI requests only go to providers with zero-data-retention policies.
Hansel is for people doing complex work across a lot of tools, especially people managing AI agents, projects, meetings, and communication at the same time.
My request is simple: install Hansel, use it for one real workday, and ask what you did at the end of the day. If the answer doesn’t match your day, tell me what it missed.
I’ll be here answering questions and learning from everyone who tries it!
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@biw Congratulations on the launch! Love your branding, kudos to the team.
@biw the gap between doing the work and being able to explain what you did later is bigger than most tools account for. Encrypting locally is a smart call given how sensitive that context usually is. Curious how it handles context across tools, not just within one app, since most real work spans several. Nice launch, following to see where you take it.
Love the product, worried that companies might use this to track employees! :/
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@seomaxtech This is the right worry and the answer has to be architectural, not a promise. Local and encrypted on the machine is the only version that survives a policy change or an acquisition, because a promise not to build the admin view is worth exactly as much as whoever owns the company next. The test I would apply to any tool in this shape: is there an export or admin path at all, for anyone, under any plan? If one exists it will eventually be turned on, because someone will ask and there will be a reason. If it genuinely cannot exist without the user's key, the concern mostly goes away.
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@seomaxtech@rabnoor_s There is not! You need the keys that live in the macos keychain in order to read any data!
Hey! I run an append-only log and a wiki as my company's external memory, daily. Does this go beyond what you did and also capture what you decided and why?
Juggling different tasks and trying to understand what useful stuff I got done today sounds familiar... I'd definitely try it if I had Mac. Looks promising! Good luck on your launch, Ben!
@biw Congratulations on the launch! Love your branding, kudos to the team.
@porush_puri Thank you!
@biw the gap between doing the work and being able to explain what you did later is bigger than most tools account for. Encrypting locally is a smart call given how sensitive that context usually is. Curious how it handles context across tools, not just within one app, since most real work spans several. Nice launch, following to see where you take it.
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Curious to see how well it keeps track when you're bouncing between tabs, email, CRM, and AI tools all day :-)
Would love your feedback @henry_habib!
Love the product, worried that companies might use this to track employees! :/
@seomaxtech This is the right worry and the answer has to be architectural, not a promise. Local and encrypted on the machine is the only version that survives a policy change or an acquisition, because a promise not to build the admin view is worth exactly as much as whoever owns the company next. The test I would apply to any tool in this shape: is there an export or admin path at all, for anyone, under any plan? If one exists it will eventually be turned on, because someone will ask and there will be a reason. If it genuinely cannot exist without the user's key, the concern mostly goes away.
@seomaxtech @rabnoor_s There is not! You need the keys that live in the macos keychain in order to read any data!
@rabnoor_s @biw Ah, got it!
Hey! I run an append-only log and a wiki as my company's external memory, daily. Does this go beyond what you did and also capture what you decided and why?
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Juggling different tasks and trying to understand what useful stuff I got done today sounds familiar... I'd definitely try it if I had Mac. Looks promising! Good luck on your launch, Ben!
Thank you@margarita_s88!