Gladys
Characters who live on your phone and get things done
Details
- External ID
- 1246105
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Gladys
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence
- Fetched at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Gladys is a cast of animated characters who live on your phone. Five things set it apart: They have days. A life that runs whether you open the app or not. They perform. Calls are video, lip-synced animation minted per character. They have hands. A browser that runs as you (she never sees your password), messages, calendar, a desk where she retypes your résumé. The brain runs on the phone. Agent, tools, and memory on-device; never trained on. Make your own. A name, a soul, a voice, a life.
Enrichment
- Theme
- personal and family life organizers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai characters on your phone
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No It requires persistent on-device autonomous agents, real-time lip-synced video rendering pipelines on mobile, and complex OS-level browser automation.
What it would actually take: A real implementation requires custom on-device and edge rendering pipelines for 32/64-bit real-time 3D or 2D animation with audio-driven viseme mapping, coupled with native Android/iOS background daemon management. The autonomous web browsing agent requires sandboxed headless browser automation or accessibility service hooks to perform complex multi-step tasks without exposing user credentials. This demands specialized mobile systems engineering, computer graphics/animation expertise, and advanced agentic execution architectures.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 24 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 25 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 176 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Voice Letter · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Instinct · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.