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Product Hunt Martin Midori
A new desktop project planner just launched for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It uses a local AI by default, with no account, cloud, or subscription.
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Shadow Planner is trying to make project management feel less like renting software and more like owning a tool. It launched today as a desktop planner for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with the usual serious-project features: Gantt charts, dependencies, resource utilisation, and what-if scenarios.
The twist is the AI assistant. It “knows your plan,” and by default it runs on a local Ollama model. That keeps the work on the machine instead of pushing it into some remote service, which is the kind of detail that will matter to people who are tired of every app turning into a login prompt with a monthly bill attached.
The pricing is equally blunt: no account, no cloud, no subscription. Just €4.99 once. That puts Shadow Planner in a very different bucket from the modern SaaS crowd, and it’s clearly aiming at users who want project planning software without the usual recurring-fee ritual.
Product Hunt lists it as a productivity and task management launch, and the pitch is simple enough to fit in one sentence: a local-first project planner with an AI assistant bolted on, not the other way around. That's a neat reversal, and a welcome one.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right instinct: put the plan on the machine, not in somebody else’s billing system. The market has had enough “AI-powered” project tools that mostly seem powered by a subscription page. Local-first software is starting to look less like a niche and more like common sense.
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