Built with agentsSelf-reported
Ex-Cheetah product lead ships overseas AI tools with Claude Code
In 2025 his apps reached about ¥10 million in annual revenue; the flagship Raphael AI is free with no sign-up, has about 2 million monthly users and no paid ads
- Agents and tools
- Claude Code, Cursor
- How it earns
- Subscriptions, Ads
- Where customers come from
- Word of mouth
- Team
- Started solo with AI, hired the first employee after three months; now 4 colleagues plus a technical partner
- People
- 刘小排
- Added
- 28 October 2026
How it works
- A background program scans the world for little-known products with strong cash flow to find needs worth entering
- Turns ideas into products quickly with Claude Code and Cursor, keeping Claude Code running tasks around the clock
- The flagship AI image tool is free with no sign-up; money comes from paid plans that remove watermarks and skip the queue, plus a little advertising
- Runs a dozen or so products at once, kills the weak ones fast, and hands operations to colleagues
Could we copy it?
Partly copyable Building a similar AI tool is easy. Picking the right need, growing overseas and absorbing heavy model and token costs are hard. He admits these wrapper products are easy to copy, and his top product's revenue is now declining.
Sources
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