Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-16
Nemis Wants to Be the Assistant That Stays on Your Mac
A local-first Mac assistant that reads your mail and calendar, remembers your contacts and commitments, and lets you ask questions from an optional iPhone app.
Why it surfacedNemis makes unusually concrete privacy promises: no account, no Nemis server holding your data, encrypted Mac storage, and an approval step before it sends mail, changes shared information, or runs a connected tool. It is also candid about the limits—cloud models still send questions to their respective providers—and is currently free during early access.
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The 240-Material Organ
August 16’s newborn domains include a 240-material perfume organ, a repeatedly saved JPEG cat, a ski tracker designed by a 15-year-old, and a searchable page claiming to contain 148,303 prescription records.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-16 Domain Arrivals issue.