We built a local-first Android agent. Then Meta launched Muse
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- Product
- We built a local-first Android agent. Then Meta launched Muse
- Website domain
- creepy.im
- Launched
- Sept. 12, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12998405103668262
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for ai agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local-first android ai agent
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The conversational Android UI and deep link dispatching are easy to build, but packaging an accurate, fast 2B model that runs entirely on-device and is fine-tuned on fragmented Android settings trees requires specialized ML engineering.
What it would actually take: Building a real on-device troubleshooting agent requires integrating on-device runtimes such as MediaPipe GenAI, ONNX Runtime Mobile, or llama.cpp within an Android service. The hard engineering problem is creating a curated dataset mapping natural language troubleshooting requests to exact Android Settings Intent actions, extras, and fragmented OEM hierarchies (Samsung OneUI, Xiaomi MIUI, Pixel), followed by parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA) and aggressive 4-bit quantization to ensure the model runs smoothly without thermal throttling.
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Competitors
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Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
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Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.