Use screenshots to remember things with Pool

The average person has thousands of screenshots on their phone: recipes, purchases, vacation inspirations, event tickets… and they rarely look at them again. So Maxime Junique and Piet Terheyden from Spinoff Studio created an app called Pool to solve this problem.

Released on June 11th, Pool auto-organizes your screenshots into AI-powered ‘pools’, retrieves the original URLs associated with your screenshots, and provides you with an AI assistant to find what you need using natural language. Plus, they added a nice touch where screenshots become less relevant over time (e.g., after an event has occurred). In other words, they treat your screenshots as memories rather than clutter. They had originally thought of this idea 3 years ago but decided to wait until AI technology improved. They raised more than $2M from investors to reboot their project. As Maxime puts it: “Who is going after this really, deeply emotional dataset that we all have?”

1The builder's takeaway: boring mess + AI = useful tool

This is a great example of how to find promising AI product ideas. The problem they’re solving is relatively small (screenshot organization), but it’s incredibly common and painful. Instead of trying to build a massive platform, they’re taking a more methodical approach by organizing and searching through information. And guess what? You can do the same thing!

Sure, you probably won’t be able to recreate Pool overnight. But imagine if there was an app that asked AI to analyze and label all of your exported screenshots folders, then displayed them on a searchable webpage like “stuff I want to remember later”? With Claude Code, that could be done in a weekend. Best part? It would run locally on your computer without any server interaction. People do crazier stuff on a Tuesday night.

In any case, remember that some of the most exciting AI product ideas for 2026 will come from seemingly mundane aspects of our lives. Like screenshots. What else?