Come Rebuild Apps with Agents

"This Time, Even I Could Do It"

One question: vibe coding has been hyped for this long, and the slogan "everyone is a product manager" has been shouted for all these years — so why do all the apps on the market still look exactly as dead as before?

The so-called major updates are honestly laughable. Moments can now post "visible only to yourself." Comment sections can now post images. The AI stuff is even worse — either stick a chatbot in the search bar, or hide some AI pet in a corner that rivals Honor of Kings' Lingbao.

After seeing all this, I genuinely feel I could do this crappy product manager job myself.

Let me be blunt: old apps are overdue for a revolution.

So this time, we've decided to give everyone a chance to cosplay as an actual big-tech employee and become a product manager on the spot: On September 22, FuneralAI will co-host the "You Build the Hit MVP" hackathon with Qwen Office.

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What You Build Is Up to You

As long as it's legal, we have zero restrictions.

You'll become an AI Nietzsche, revaluing all applications. Social, payments, entertainment, education, whatever — if you don't like how it works, smash it to pieces and rebuild it immediately. Make a brand-new app for everyone to use.

That's right. How people should chat, how stuff should be bought, how sugar daddies should be hooked — you redefine all of it.

You could make a Tinder full of digital humans, a Taobao that only lets you add to cart but never check out, a payment app that generates random amounts... as long as it's got some juice, it works.

Of course, remaking existing apps isn't the only path: if you want nothing to do with anything on the market, you can absolutely build from scratch an app nobody has ever thought of.

If you believe you can knock out all these boomer products on the market and become the next hit MVP, then hurry up and send us your idea 🤭

If you already have an idea, scan the QR code below to sign up ⬇️

Date: September 22

Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Details shared after registration approval.

Registration closes September 17. Spots are first come, first served, until full. Registering through Substack gives you a certain priority advantage.

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Win a Mac mini While You're At It

Note that the entire competition must be done using Qwen Office.

You don't need to write a single line of code, or know anything about marketing, tech, or operations. All you need is one idea, one spark of inspiration, one sentence — then let AI turn your idea into reality, an app anyone can see and use.

Oh, and we'll also give every participant a free Qwen Office membership, so even if you want to hand-craft a world model, it won't cost you a dime 😚

Unlike our previous events, participants this time get much more time: from now until September 21, you can stay up all night at home hacking away for as long as you want.

But don't just focus on building the product — on September 22, participants need to come to Hangzhou with us for an offline roadshow, presenting your remade app to all kinds of audiences.

So things like slide decks and promo videos — if you want to grab maximum attention during your presentation, you can whip those up in advance with Qwen Office too.

There are generous prizes again. Once more, we've prepared a Mac mini as the grand prize, plus an Apple Watch, an Insta360 camera, a Bambu Lab printer, and a DJI Action 5 Pro. The odds of winning are extremely high.

On top of that, the organizers will give every participant small gifts, including points cards and brand merch.

Nobody goes home empty-handed 🤓

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Contestant and Judge

One last thing: participants who come to the event won't just show off their app, collect their prize, and go home for dinner.

Our "You Build the Hit MVP" hackathon is actually one segment of Qwen Office's "Yunqi Mini-Games." At that day's event, besides Xianyu, various KOLs will serve as hosts, running their own mini-competitions.

Each mini-competition has a different theme, so the products built by contestants in each division will naturally be all over the map. So besides presenting your own app, you can wander around the venue and socialize, or critique and roast other people's work.

This time you're both a contestant and a referee — mutual destruction at the grassroots level, let's go 🤫

In short: scan the QR code below to sign up now, then bring your work to Hangzhou. Whether you're a mule or a horse, time to show what you've got ⬇️

See you there 🥵

(Cover image generated by ChatGPT; the article itself is 100% human-written)

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