Founder OS
A personal, local-first operating system that keeps one founder’s commitments, job search and calendar in one honest picture — running entirely on one Mac.
What it does
Founder OS reads the places where a job search actually lives — email, calendar, reminders, a Notion application tracker, and a local Obsidian vault — and derives a single view of what genuinely needs attention: which conversations are waiting on a reply, which are waiting on someone else, what is scheduled, and what has quietly gone stale.
It is deliberately small and deliberately private. There is no account to create, no server to sign in to, and no other user. It runs as a plugin inside Obsidian on a single computer.
Who it is for
One person: Aadwik Malhotra. Founder OS is a personal project — not a product, not a service, and not something offered to anyone else. This page exists because Google requires an application homepage and a privacy policy before an OAuth application may request access to Gmail and Google Calendar.
What it connects to
- Gmail — read-only (
gmail.readonly). Message headers and preview snippets for a narrow job-search query. Full message bodies are never requested. - Google Calendar — read-only (
calendar.events.readonly). Events in a window around today, so a scheduled interview is visible and a recurring series is understood as a series. - Apple Reminders and Apple Notes — read locally on the same Mac.
- Notion — a personal job-application database, read for aggregate counts.
- A local Obsidian vault and local git repositories — read from disk.
Founder OS requests no write access to Gmail or Google Calendar, and holds no permission to send, modify or delete anything in either.
Where the data goes
Nowhere. Everything is fetched directly from Google to the user’s own machine, processed there, and written to local files. There is no Founder OS server, no database, no analytics, and no third party. Nothing is sold, shared, or transmitted anywhere else.
Privacy
The full detail — exactly what is read, where it is stored, how the Google credential is held in the macOS Keychain, and how to revoke it — is in the Founder OS privacy policy.