Ethan Mandel

Ethan Mandel

Building productivity tools!

About

I'm a software engineer and data scientist based in Boston, with a master's in computer engineering and about five years working on ML pipelines and security tooling. MindFlock is a nights-and-weekends project that came out of my own frustration. I'd been running three or four AI coding agents in parallel and found the bottleneck wasn't the models — it was me, juggling terminal windows and manually starting every session. So I built the thing I wanted: my ticket queue starts the sessions, and I just review and merge. I've been using it daily for about a year. I like building tools that remove the boring part of a job rather than the interesting part. When I'm not doing that I'm on a bike, in a boxing gym, on a sailboat, or playing jazz/funk.

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Maker History

  • MindFlock
    MindFlockA private flock of AI agents, started by your ticket queue
    Aug 2026
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    Joined Product HuntAugust 3rd, 2026

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4h ago

MindFlock - A private flock of AI agents, started by your ticket queue

MindFlock — Local, private ticket-to-PR. A ticket assigned to you in Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues, Shortcut or Asana becomes an AI coding session on your own machine — its own git worktree, seeded and already running. No vendor sandbox gets a copy of your repo. You review the diff and merge.
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