Launching today
Genie Mentions
AI that gets you *and* the people in your life, together
59 followers
AI that gets you *and* the people in your life, together
59 followers
Genie was built on the belief that to truly "get" you, a meaningful social product must also "get" the people in your life. Introducing Genie Mentions: the first AI that treats your circle as part of who you are. Your taste. Your friends' taste. What you're all into. Genie keeps track to update you on big moves your friends are making, trips they’re taking, dreams they’re conjuring. If you want AI for work, ChatGPT awaits you; if you want to know what's going on in your world, tag Genie in.
Genie Mentions
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Noa, co-founder of Genie.
My path here has been a bit unusual. I dropped out of high school at 16 and moved to the Bay Area after my work gained traction with companies like Google, Facebook, IDEO, and others. At 19, I exited a startup and later became the founding designer at Turing. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to work as a technical artist with brands such as Puma, Microsoft, and OpenStore.
You can find courses I’ve created online where I teach design and coding, along with tutorials on YouTube that have reached hundreds of thousands of people. My obsession has always been the same: learning and understanding the most exciting technologies shaping the future.
That obsession is what led us to build Genie, and, by extension, products like Mentions (launching on PH today!) and GenUI (stay tuned!)
As we explored the AI landscape, we realized how influential products like OpenClaw have become. At the same time, we noticed that most people struggle to set them up, and that agents often break down without persistent memory, context, and continuity.
We thought there was an opportunity to solve those problems directly: persistent memory, social behavior, social cron jobs, and on-device models that improve speed while reducing token usage. The goal isn’t just to make AI more capable, it’s to help create the kind of product culture Brian Chesky often talks about when discussing Airbnb.
Apps are becoming agents, and the way we interact with software is fundamentally changing. it only makes sense that being able to reference your friends inside a prompt, access shared context, and weave together agentic workflows could unlock an entirely new social layer of computing.
So what does all of that mean for the actual product? Well, Genie acts a bit like that mutual friend everyone has: the person who understands both sides, makes connections, and brings people closer together.
That becomes incredibly powerful when you consider what it enables: more personalized interfaces, awareness of how people actually think, and a deeper understanding of how AI fits into everyday social life, not just professional workflows.
A few things I’d love to hear from everyone:
• What’s the most useful thing ChatGPT can’t do because it doesn’t know your friends?
• If AI knew both you and your friends really well, what’s the first thing you’d ask it?
Genie Mentions
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I’m John, also Genie co-founder.
I haven’t had the fortune of being on a PH Launch Team since @Nokia Z Launcher (with other fun gigs after that like being the first PM hire at @Bumble , then a PM at @facebook , then @Citizen ), but it’s good to be back!
AI has gotten immensely powerful as it became more personal. And yet to us it felt like it was missing a key component of who we are.
We don’t live in an isolated bubble. Our friends, our family, our spouses, our housemates…they help shape what we do and even who we are. But all my other AIs know about them are stale comments I made about them from weeks or even months ago.
The neat thing about Mentions is that it’s an AI that is designed to be multiplayer from the ground up - to have separate private and public-facing memories and models designed to make use of them. This hasn’t been easy (there’s a reason everyone else defaults to just trying to make a “single-player” experience work well), but as you and people in your circle use it, you can start to see why it was worth the effort. When Mentions knows those around you who help define your life, it feels immensely more useful, more surprising, and more fun than AIs that were designed to exist in a social silo.
There are a lot of ways AI can be made better where we think we can make some meaningful contributions despite our tiny size. Making your AI socially aware is one of them, and we’d love to hear what you think of it. We’d also love for you to give us a follow so you can be among the first to see the next things we have coming.