From Nobody to Category Leader: How We Accidentally Started the PhoneUse Race

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Hey everyone,

Back in April, I shared an early demo of DroidRun a side project we built to let AI agents interact with Android phones like real users.

Originally, it was just a tool to automate app usage and collect structured market intelligence. No UI. No docs. No product. Just a working prototype.

Then things escalated. We posted a short demo. It went viral. Within 48 hours, we hit 2,000+ GitHub stars. Shortly after, we closed our first funding round.

Other teams started entering the space. A few copied our approach. A Chinese university lab briefly overtook us on benchmarks.But we kept building and open-sourced everything.

We launched DroidRun on Product Hunt in July and to our surprise, we became Product of the Day.

It was a huge moment that confirmed this new category PhoneUse agents was real.
Since then, we’ve been focused on turning a prototype into a framework and building an actual ecosystem around it.

Now, we’re looking for people who want to help shape what comes next:

Agent/LLM developers
Growth hackers & community people
Open-source contributors
Moderators for our new subreddit
This category is moving fast, and it’s still early. If you’re curious, skeptical, or just want to build — come join us.

www.droidrun.ai

We’re still just getting started.

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