Trailback for Mac & Windows
Search your computer the way you remember it
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Details
- External ID
- 1274620
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Trailback for Mac & Windows
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 4
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.93
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Privacy
Description
Lost a file, page or screenshot? Describe it and Trailback finds it, even if you forgot the name, folder or browser. 100% offline. Mac and Windows.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local semantic search for your computer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While an electron/desktop shell is simple, running continuous background screen/file indexing, local OCR, local embedding models, and efficient semantic search entirely offline across OSes is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a native background daemon (Rust/Swift/C++) capturing display buffers, extracting text via OS OCR APIs (Apple Vision / Windows Media OCR), generating embeddings via ONNX/llama.cpp, and storing vectors in a fast local vector DB (like sqlite-vec or LanceDB) with minimal battery/CPU overhead.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 272 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 273 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.
- Search On Mac · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- LocatorZero · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Where Was I? · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- recoveryoursite.com · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Screen Index · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Rewisp · ph · 2026-07-19 · 172 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- WindowReturn · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Nix · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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