Ian Mendiola

eng google. previously founder super abstractions (acq), head of product & eng social capital, eng dropbox, founder umano (acq)

[Jean-Denis Greze 💡 @jgreze]

Today, we’re launching @TownAI: the AI assistant that learns you.

We’re coming out of beta with a $55M Series A led by @ARampell at @a16z, with participation from @KirstenGreen at @forerunnervc and continued support from @firstround, @altcap, and @conviction.

Right now, getting real value from AI means prompting, configuring, building workflows, managing agents.

We think that’s backwards.

The future of AI is a companion that already knows you and how you work. Town connects across your inbox, calendar, Slack, docs, messages, and workflows to understand what you need, then starts doing the work with you.

Drafting. Scheduling. Project tracking. Follow-ups. Context gathering. Multi-step tasks. And it only acts when you say so.

All adapting to your voice, priorities, routines, and relationships over time.

Your Townie is the AI assistant you actually need.

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@jgreze @TownAI @arampell @a16z @kirstengreen @ForerunnerVC @firstround @altcap @conviction Congrats, JDG and Tony!

[Yuna Akazawa @itsakayunz]

We built Palette AI to help design teams ship faster without sacrificing quality.

It reviews your UI and gives expert feedback in seconds — accessibility, heuristics, brand consistency & more.

Live now on @ProductHunt 🚀 https://t.co/tSwpRof81E

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@fnthawar @reactnative I’ve talked to a couple of senior mobile devs at big consumer companies and when I said I was going to use RN to build a messaging app they recommended I write the views natively because of perf / RN’s poor cell recycling. Would you recommend the same thing?

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@ameetshah Next week. I won’t forget!

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@frazras @drewcoffman @umanoapp Appreciate the shoutout 😍

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@smalter 😅

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@garychou i love my local bodega

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@smalter @PryHQ best angel investor

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@andruyeung @NYCTechWeek Invite please 👋

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@illscience with another 🔥 post

[Anish Acharya @illscience]

1/n 🎯New post from @matt_haf and I about the rise of active trading + why it's here to stay, inc catalysts and the 🔑 approaches:

- Distributed hedge funds
- Individuals as the largest asset managers
- Low code trading IDEs
- Bottoms up communities

https://t.co/UPFyfHrIIm

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@JSaulsky @DojiApp @joezeng6 Added!

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@nikitabier @DojiApp Thanks, @nikitabier! To the moon! 🚀

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@swilera Magic is definitely one of our secret ingredients. Works similar to copy trade features like @eToro and use the fund/ETF concept as a simple abstraction around it.

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@nikitabier Wtf just happened

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@boomereng 🙏 — really hope you get a chance to try it. Your feedback would be 🔥

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@tokudu @DojiApp You'd put your 401K in https://t.co/kQMyPx1rMa

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@sarah_cone Thank you! I'd invest🚀

[Ian Mendiola @ianmendiola]

@nikitabier We've all been there! Built this in 2008 (C# app). Winamp but instead of downloading songs, they play directly from the internet ...