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A Conversation with Kunpeng: Interactive Movie Games With Real Actors Suddenly Took Off — The Dream He'd Chased for Ten Years Finally Got Noticed

A Conversation with Kunpeng: Interactive Movie Games With Real Actors Suddenly Took Off — The Dream He'd Chased for Ten Years Finally Got Noticed

真格基金·
Vol.17 48-Hour Xiaohongshu Hackathon Hit: How an AI-Native Product That Broke the "Retention Curse" Was Built --- Two weekends ago, I participated in a 48-hour hackathon hosted by Xiaohongshu. Our team of four built an AI-native product from scratch — no code, no design background between us — and ended up winning the "Most Popular" award. The product? A voice diary app called **"Echo"** that uses AI to turn fragmented daily moments into serialized, episodic "life podcasts." Think *This American Life*, but starring you. What surprised me wasn't that we won. It was that people kept using it *after* the demo. Here's the dirty secret of AI hackathons: most projects die the moment judges stop clapping. The "retention curse" is real — users try your GPT wrapper once, say "neat," and never return. We broke that pattern. Our daily active user rate among beta testers hit 34% in week one, which for a hackathon product is basically unheard of. How? Three deliberate choices we made against hackathon orthodoxy. **First, we refused to build a chatbot.** The default AI product in 2024 is still "talk to a large language model." We explicitly rejected this. Chat interfaces create *performance anxiety* — users feel pressure to ask the "right

Vol.17 48-Hour Xiaohongshu Hackathon Hit: How an AI-Native Product That Broke the "Retention Curse" Was Built --- Two weekends ago, I participated in a 48-hour hackathon hosted by Xiaohongshu. Our team of four built an AI-native product from scratch — no code, no design background between us — and ended up winning the "Most Popular" award. The product? A voice diary app called **"Echo"** that uses AI to turn fragmented daily moments into serialized, episodic "life podcasts." Think *This American Life*, but starring you. What surprised me wasn't that we won. It was that people kept using it *after* the demo. Here's the dirty secret of AI hackathons: most projects die the moment judges stop clapping. The "retention curse" is real — users try your GPT wrapper once, say "neat," and never return. We broke that pattern. Our daily active user rate among beta testers hit 34% in week one, which for a hackathon product is basically unheard of. How? Three deliberate choices we made against hackathon orthodoxy. **First, we refused to build a chatbot.** The default AI product in 2024 is still "talk to a large language model." We explicitly rejected this. Chat interfaces create *performance anxiety* — users feel pressure to ask the "right

云启资本·
Huazhe Xu: Embodied AI Just Starting Its Race, People Who Won't Wait for an IPO | North Slope Project

Huazhe Xu: Embodied AI Just Starting Its Race, People Who Won't Wait for an IPO | North Slope Project

绿洲资本·
Vol.16 Tsinghua Entrepreneur-Scientist Huazhe Xu: From Intelligent "Hatching" to Home Embodiment, Stubbornly Chasing Originality in the AI Wave

Vol.16 Tsinghua Entrepreneur-Scientist Huazhe Xu: From Intelligent "Hatching" to Home Embodiment, Stubbornly Chasing Originality in the AI Wave

云启资本·
Vol.005 | A Conversation with Gongyuan: And I Choose to Start a New Table

Vol.005 | A Conversation with Gongyuan: And I Choose to Start a New Table

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E12. Gao Yang: A Thinking Reed, A Machine That Acts | Beipo Initiative

E12. Gao Yang: A Thinking Reed, A Machine That Acts | Beipo Initiative

绿洲资本·
Vol.15: The Post-'98 Founder Who Built a $20M Business in Two Years — On Building an AI That Talks Back | A Conversation with Kicker's Founder

Vol.15: The Post-'98 Founder Who Built a $20M Business in Two Years — On Building an AI That Talks Back | A Conversation with Kicker's Founder

云启资本·
Special Edition: The North Face Project

Special Edition: The North Face Project

绿洲资本·
Vol.14 OpenClaw Is Just the Beginning: Are Agents Reinventing the Company? | A Conversation with Happycapy's Founder

Vol.14 OpenClaw Is Just the Beginning: Are Agents Reinventing the Company? | A Conversation with Happycapy's Founder

云启资本·
Dropped Out of Columbia to Build the First General-Purpose Learning Agent

Dropped Out of Columbia to Build the First General-Purpose Learning Agent

真格基金·
Vol. 13 The Smarter AI Social Gets, the More Human We Become Like NPCs? A Conversation with a Former Otome Game Writer and AI Social Entrepreneur on Relationships and AI

Vol. 13 The Smarter AI Social Gets, the More Human We Become Like NPCs? A Conversation with a Former Otome Game Writer and AI Social Entrepreneur on Relationships and AI

云启资本·
E11. Wang Peng: Hunting Life

E11. Wang Peng: Hunting Life

绿洲资本·
Sp.02 | A Conversation with Master Dong: The Untold Stories Behind 20 Years of Chinese Venture Capital

Sp.02 | A Conversation with Master Dong: The Untold Stories Behind 20 Years of Chinese Venture Capital

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Vol.12 Cuflow Yang Bolin: Gen Z Founder Building AI Products — Have Investor Standards Changed? | Y Transformers

Vol.12 Cuflow Yang Bolin: Gen Z Founder Building AI Products — Have Investor Standards Changed? | Y Transformers

云启资本·
Vol.004 | Conversation with Richard Guo: Staying Out of the Fray, But Keeping on Winning

Vol.004 | Conversation with Richard Guo: Staying Out of the Fray, But Keeping on Winning

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E10. Jinjian Zhang: In the Age of AI, Live as Yourself

E10. Jinjian Zhang: In the Age of AI, Live as Yourself

绿洲资本·
Vol.003 | In Conversation with Huang Yungang: From Moving Bricks in Xinjiang to VC — My Folded Life

Vol.003 | In Conversation with Huang Yungang: From Moving Bricks in Xinjiang to VC — My Folded Life

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Sp.01 | Debriefing China's Primary Market in 2025 (Ft. Crossroads)

Sp.01 | Debriefing China's Primary Market in 2025 (Ft. Crossroads)

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E09. Liu Ding: Artificial Intelligence VS Biological Instinct

E09. Liu Ding: Artificial Intelligence VS Biological Instinct

绿洲资本·
Vol.002 | A Conversation with Huadong Wang: Living a Haruki Murakami Life

Vol.002 | A Conversation with Huadong Wang: Living a Haruki Murakami Life

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