May in Shenzhen, Let's Rock and Roll | AI Nao Hunting Night, Night Three

AI闹·May 21, 2026·0·0

By the third night of the hunt, I started getting some earnest, bizarre feedback.

Hunt Night, Stop Three: AI Nao Hits Shenzhen

🕙 Saturday, May 30, 8:00 PM 📌 Shenzhen, Diao Hai Tavern (Nanshan Book City location) ✅ Secret code: "Let's Nao"**

Three Hunt Nights in, and we've been getting some earnest, wonderfully bizarre feedback.

Someone thought this was a pitch event and offered us a lecture hall, free of charge;

Someone thought it was a seminar and asked if we'd be sharing slides and a deck;

Someone thought it was a nightclub and suggested we add a swimsuit show;

A stand-up comedy director even reached out, hoping to scout talent;

Not entirely wrong. Not quite right either.

"Hunt Night" is an original format invented by AI Nao.

It's also what the name "AI Nao" is meant to convey: beyond the solemn narratives and grand rhetoric of startup culture, we're trying to create something more improvised, more unpredictable.

You could also think of it as "Product Hunt, but offline."

Except we've moved the leaderboard from the screen to the tavern, replaced the upvote button with golden spoons, and turned product pitches into eight minutes on stage. The comment section becomes live, in-person interrogation.

Once a month.

Two roles at Hunt Night.

😊 Creator

Eight minutes to explain what you're building, why you're building it, and why the world might need it.

Then, face the gauntlet from the Hunters.

🧘 Hunter

On entry, you receive three golden spoons — your votes. Cast them for the product that moves you most, the wildest idea, the person with the most hustle, or simply someone you'd want to grab a drink with after.

The golden spoons crown the night's champion.

Past two events have drawn 300+ participants.

Someone landed their first investment here.

Someone recruited a co-founder.

Someone listened, then quit their job to start a company.

Someone else ran into a college sweetheart they hadn't seen in years.

That last one we genuinely didn't see coming, but since it happened, we're provisionally counting it as a feature.

Past event recaps:

The World Belongs to the Weird: 7 Unserious Projects and 3 Global Debuts | AI Nao Hunt Night, Shanghai

We Locked 6 Founders and 130 Hunters in a Tavern | AI Nao Hunt Night, the First Night

Shenzhen: 8 Creator slots open

4 locked in

4 remaining for self-nomination

The four confirmed:

👧 Formerly the only female paparazzo in Chinese entertainment, a viral-hit machine. Switched to AI hardware three months ago and racked up nine-figure GMV. Now on a mission to teach Chinese people how to brush their teeth.

🐶 Former pet insurance analyst who processed massive volumes of cat and dog physiological data, then casually retooled himself into a full-stack hardware engineer. Now researching the inner lives of kittens and puppies.

💔 An AI product manager with a broken heart. Used three failed relationships spanning 17 years to validate that "long-term commitment" is harder than Elon Musk building rockets. Built a social app — something like masked dating.

👦 Gen Z: Building an AI-powered Telegram+X. Another young gun gunning for Allen Zhang. Jackson Wang is their most famous client. Fingerstyle guitar enthusiast.

Four slots left.

Move fast. Bring your product, idea, half-baked prototype, ambition, obsession.