Chunxiang Zhao
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Chunxiang Zhao is a Chinese AI product builder best known as the solo founder of 胃之书 (Wèi zhī Shū / "Stomach Book"), an LLM-powered food journaling app that broke into the top 3 on Apple's paid charts in 2024 . A liberal arts major by background, he built the app largely alone and gained early traction through Xiaohongshu, where his marketing approach stood out among China's new generation of AI entrepreneurs . In mid-2024 he launched a second AI product, Laplace, again with Xiaohongshu as his primary distribution channel . Zhao has been profiled as part of the "super-individual" phenomenon in China's AI scene—founders who ship products, generate revenue, and handle marketing without traditional teams . By late 2025 he was also speaking publicly about vibe coding and the "wild west" era of AI-assisted development .
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20 Stories That Capture a Year of Living With AI | 2025 Annual Memory
2025: The Days We Spent With Doubao
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What AI Entrepreneurs See and Think at the Crossing
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A new startup niche.
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In 2025, we've noticed an intriguing phenomenon: Xiaohongshu is becoming the "minimum viable testing ground" for AI entrepreneurship.
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Let's preserve the AI innovations that brought us excitement and encouragement in 2024.
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"Entrepreneurs understand entrepreneurs best" — at the Crossing of a golden era, meeting, exchanging ideas, and making decisions.
The golden age, the critical moment, the Crossing.
Will You Really Fall Behind the AI World If You Don't Use Xiaohongshu?
Xiaohongshu has opened the world's first AI-powered convenience store.
"Laplace" Developer Chunxiang Zhao: Create Like You're Writing a Novel — Create as in Creation, Not as in Startups
Face what you don't understand until you understand it.
A Conversation with Chunxiang Zhao: How a Liberal Arts Major Built a Top-3 AI App
An AI app founder who doesn't want to make movies isn't a good writer.
He Got Cocky, Fell Apart, Had an Epiphany, Then Built an AI App That Hit #3 on the Paid Charts | A Conversation with Chunxiang Zhao, Founder of *Stomach Book*
