I’m Noah, co-founder of Genie.
My path here has been a bit unusual. After being promoted for my work at Google, Facebook, IDEO, and other companies, I dropped out of high school at age 16 and moved to the Bay Area. At 19, I left a startup and later became a founding designer at Turing. Since then, I have had the opportunity to work as a technical artist with brands like PUMA, Microsoft, and Openstore.
You can find courses I’ve created online where I teach design and coding, as well as tutorials on YouTube that have reached hundreds of thousands of people. My passion has always remained the same: learning and understanding the most exciting technologies that will shape the future.
That passion is what led us to create Genie, and, by extension, products like Mentions (launching on PH today!) and ZenUI (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 agents often break down without consistent memory, context, and consistency.
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, but to help create the kind of product culture that Brian Chesky often talks about when discussing Airbnb.
Apps are becoming agents, and the way we interact with software is fundamentally changing. This just means that being able to refer to your friends inside a gesture, access shared context, and tie together agentic workflows can unlock an entirely new social layer of computing.
So what does all this mean for the actual product? Well, the Genie works a bit like that mutual friend that everyone has: the person who understands both parties, builds relationships and brings people closer.
This becomes incredibly powerful when you consider what it enables: more personalized interfaces, awareness of how people really think, and a deeper understanding of how AI fits into not just professional workflows but everyday social life.
Some things I would love to hear from everyone:
• What’s the most useful thing that ChatGPT can’t do because it doesn’t know your friends?
•If an AI knew both you and your friends really well, what would be the first thing you would ask it?
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