Textlore
Every book, show and place your friends recommended
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Textlore reads your iMessage and WhatsApp history on your Mac. Recs lists every book, show and restaurant friends recommended, in their words. Promises shows what you said you'd do. Plus instant search, PDF export and a photo archive.
PH · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: ebook and reading apps · 190 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Messaging
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI for search, export, and photo archive is vibe-codeable, and iMessage history is readable from the local Mac database. Reliable WhatsApp ingestion on macOS and accurate LLM extraction of recommendations with follow-up tracking add harder pieces.
What it would actually take: A real version would read the iMessage chat.db SQLite store (requiring Full Disk Access) and handle WhatsApp via export or its encrypted local database, which is harder. The core extraction pipeline sends conversation chunks to an LLM that classifies recommendations and commitments, then stores them in a local index with search and PDF export. Robust parsing across message formats, attachments, and privacy-safe local processing is the hard part and needs careful engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 449 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #227 of 450 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 365 days after the earliest competitor.
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