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Pell
Turn your "text-to-self" chat into a searchable brain.
Like a lot of you, my WhatsApp chat history with myself was a total digital junkyard. I’d text myself a gate code, a quick voice note idea, or a photo of where I parked my car, only for them to completely vanish into the scroll abyss.
Traditional note-taking apps have too much friction when you're on the move, but standard chat apps have zero discoverability.
That’s why we built Pell.
It lets you keep using the exact text-to-self habit you already have, but gives that chat a searchable brain. You dump in raw text, voice notes, or photos, Pell quietly drops a thumbs-up to let you know it's saved, and days later you just ask for it back verbatim.
A few quick things you'll love: - Zero friction: No apps to download, no accounts to create. It lives right in WhatsApp. - Quiet by design: It reacts with a thumbs-up. No AI-hallucinated conversational fluff or 3-paragraph essays when you’re just trying to log a note. - Full voice note support: Personally, I use this feature the most. I love just dumping random voice notes into the chat while I'm walking, and later on, I can literally just send Pell a quick voice note back asking it to find those buried messages for me.
It’s completely free to try right now (and works in any language). I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any wild use cases you find for it.
since it extracts the key info from photos and voice notes rather than keeping the raw media, what happens with something like that parked-car photo example, do you still get the actual image back, or just a text description of it? and for retrieval, if I ask for something ambiguous like "the gate code" and I've texted myself two different gate codes at different times, does it show me both candidates or just confidently hand back its single best guess? a wrong-but-confident answer seems worse than no answer for something like that.
Finally a notes system I don't have to organize. I just texted it a reminder and asked it back two days later, and it pulled up exactly what I needed.
Finally tried Pell and the search is way better than I expected. Asked it about a recipe my friend sent weeks ago and it pulled it up instantly without me scrolling through old chats.
the idea of just texting myself notes but having them actually be searchable is so simple it's almost embarrassing no one did this sooner. love how clean the experience sounds
how does it handle stuff like voice notes or images you save in the chat, or is it strictly text-only for what it can search through?
finally someone figured out notes need to be searchable. searched for "dentist appointment" from months ago and it pulled up the exact thing i forgot about.
How long does it keep the memory for, and does it use my messages to train anything?
been using a mess of screenshots and voice notes to myself for ages so this hits close to home. one thing that would push it further for me is grouping memories by topic instead of just a flat search list, so i can ask things like "what was that restaurant you told me about" and get a clean thread instead of twenty random hits to scroll through.
About Pell on Product Hunt
“Turn your "text-to-self" chat into a searchable brain.”
Pell was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 19 upvotes and 23 comments, placing #23 on the daily leaderboard. You already text yourself notes. Pell is the same, except it actually finds them when you ask. A WhatsApp contact that remembers everything.
Pell was featured in Messaging (51.9k followers), Notes (8.3k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (473.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 124.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Pell?
Pell was hunted by Faaz Abidi. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Faaz Abidi
Hi all,
Like a lot of you, my WhatsApp chat history with myself was a total digital junkyard. I’d text myself a gate code, a quick voice note idea, or a photo of where I parked my car, only for them to completely vanish into the scroll abyss.
Traditional note-taking apps have too much friction when you're on the move, but standard chat apps have zero discoverability.
That’s why we built Pell.
It lets you keep using the exact text-to-self habit you already have, but gives that chat a searchable brain. You dump in raw text, voice notes, or photos, Pell quietly drops a thumbs-up to let you know it's saved, and days later you just ask for it back verbatim.
A few quick things you'll love:
- Zero friction: No apps to download, no accounts to create. It lives right in WhatsApp.
- Quiet by design: It reacts with a thumbs-up. No AI-hallucinated conversational fluff or 3-paragraph essays when you’re just trying to log a note.
- Full voice note support: Personally, I use this feature the most. I love just dumping random voice notes into the chat while I'm walking, and later on, I can literally just send Pell a quick voice note back asking it to find those buried messages for me.
It’s completely free to try right now (and works in any language). I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any wild use cases you find for it.