Baton
Your context, independent of the AI you’re using
Details
- External ID
- 1249649
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Baton
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Developer Tools, GitHub, Development
- Fetched at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
A local-first memory layer for AI-assisted development. Your agent files what a session learned; one hotkey puts a whole project's context on your clipboard.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai-powered learning and skills training
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- portable context manager for ai apps
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Baton is a local utility that gathers session notes, indexes text locally (or via SQLite/vector search), and exposes a global system hotkey to copy aggregated context to the clipboard.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 81 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 82 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- Baton · hn · 2026-04-01 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Segue · hn · 2026-07-28 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- ContextHarbor · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Mobile AI Use · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- slopchan · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Paper · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Agentation · ph · 2026-03-27 · 436 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Onhand · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
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