A post-2000 kid programmed with AI for 10 days, and CHEN Tianqiao invested 30 million in 24 hours! Became the CEO with a senior-year assignment.

Editor: Aeneas KingHZ

Waking up one day, the domestic open - source AI project MiroFish has topped the GitHub trending list!

The domestic open - source AI project MiroFish has topped the GitHub trending list

Surprisingly, MiroFish, which has outperformed the open - source projects of institutions like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, is developed by a senior undergraduate student in China. In just three months, he has secured 30 million in investment.

By relying on an AI open - source project, has he directly transformed his graduation project into a startup and become the company's CEO?

This is not a myth but a real story that has happened in China in this AI era.

Even more amazingly, his previous project, BettaFish, also once topped the global GitHub trending list.

Both of these projects have topped the list, and they were both developed by this post - 2000s young man through "vibe coding" within 10 days.

When we look into the details, we'll find the significance of the times behind it: The era of super individuals has truly arrived!

When the power of AI tools, open - source communities, and young developers is combined, one person can be an innovation legion.

In the future, there will be more super individuals creating more startup myths in the AI era.

Three months for a senior undergraduate student: from going viral on GitHub to 30 million in investment

The story begins quite ordinarily.

In the summer of 2025, senior undergraduate student BaiFu was still anxious about internships.

At that time, his further - study destination was settled, so he wanted to finish his graduation project in advance so that he could spare time to look for an internship.

Instead of writing tens of thousands of lines of code from scratch, he opened tools like Claude Code and started the then - popular development method - Vibe Coding.

Within ten days, he integrated his years of college accumulation into an open - source project named BettaFish.

This is an AI public opinion analysis tool that can automatically capture online public opinion information and generate structured analysis reports.

BettaFish

"Micro - Opinion" helps people break through the information cocoon, restore the original appearance of public opinion, predict future trends, and assist in decision - making

Users only need to put forward analysis requirements like having a chat, and the intelligent agent will start fully automatic analysis of more than 30 mainstream social media platforms at home and abroad and millions of public comments.

Technically, it combines automated data capture, large - model analysis, and automatic report generation, and can finally output a public opinion analysis document of dozens of pages.

BettaFish

For many enterprises, such work usually requires an entire team to complete, while BettaFish attempts to automate this process with AI.

However, when BettaFish was just completed, it wasn't given much hope. Even BaiFu's doctoral senior criticized it directly after seeing it: "This is not a qualified graduation project. You need to spend more time revising it."

After 1000 stars, a miracle occurs

After the project was launched, there wasn't much of a stir.

Like many independent developers, BaiFu tried various forms of promotion, such as submitting articles to open - source weekly newsletters and official accounts, posting videos on Bilibili, and posting on technical communities, but the results were not obvious.

After hard promotion, the project finally reached 1k stars. Unexpectedly, this became the first traffic turning point for BettaFish.

Regarding this, BaiFu was already very satisfied, so he wrote a summary article and posted it on Xiaohongshu, titled "What can an open - source project with 1K+ stars bring to a college student?"

Who could have thought that a miracle would occur a week after the article was published!

The article was reposted and recommended by many big V - users in the technical community.

Subsequently, the GitHub page of BettaFish began to experience an obvious traffic explosion, and the number of stars increased at an amazing speed - 5K, 10K, 20K, 30K...

In just a few days, the project added more than 20,000 new stars!

As a result, BettaFish quickly topped the global GitHub trending list and became one of the most discussed open - source projects in the domestic AI development circle at that time.

BettaFish quickly topped the global GitHub trending list

After the project became popular, a large number of emails began to flood into BaiFu's inbox, such as internship invitations from big companies, technical cooperation invitations, and even olive branches from investment institutions.

After that, the number of users of the project increased, and the relevant demands exploded! The surge in a large number of users brought him great pressure.

The significant phone call

After hesitating and being in a daze for a long time, Baifu decided to go all - in on entrepreneurship. At this time, a phone call changed the course of events.

Chen Tianqiao, the founder of Shanda Group, showed great interest after seeing BettaFish and hoped to have further communication with him.

At that time, BaiFu's inbox was full, and he hardly had time to reply. However, the Shanda team kept contacting him persistently. Finally, he was touched by their enthusiasm and agreed to have a chat.

In the subsequent conversation, BaiFu was impressed. He truly felt that Shanda was more serious about "embracing super individuals" than any other company.

Chen Tianqiao said bluntly that the technical level of BettaFish is not particularly outstanding.

However, the complete planning of the entire process from data collection, analysis to prediction shown by BaiFu in the project, as well as the ability to "see and define real and valuable problems and try to solve them in a new AI - based way" are exactly what Shanda values.

After hanging up the phone, BaiFu didn't hesitate at all. He packed his bags and went to Shanghai alone to start cooperation with Shanda.

The birth of MiroFish: developing the second project in ten days

With the support and full freedom given by Shanda, BaiFu began to implement a new idea.

If BettaFish solves the problem of analyzing the past, then the new project aims to predict the future.

The core idea of this project named MiroFish is to build a digital sand table that simulates the real world.

MiroFish

In essence, MiroFish is an AI prediction engine driven by multi - agent technology.

It can extract seed information from the real world, such as breaking news, policy drafts, and financial signals, and automatically build a high - fidelity parallel digital world.

Within this space, there are thousands of intelligent agents, constructing a "parallel universe".

MiroFish

Each intelligent agent has an independent personality, long - term memory, and behavioral logic, and can interact freely and undergo social evolution.

This time, BaiFu chose Vibe Coding again, and it was still incredibly fast -

The development of MiroFish was completed in just ten days.

That night, BaiFu watched the running program and excitedly recorded a rough demo, which he directly submitted to Chen Tianqiao.

Within 24 hours of submitting the video, the two had a second conversation, and Chen Tianqiao immediately decided: The group will invest 30 million to fully support the in - depth incubation of MiroFish!

Overnight, BaiFu changed from an intern at Shanda to the CEO of an AI startup.

MiroFish has gone further than BettaFish:

The end of BettaFish's analysis becomes the starting point of MiroFish's prediction.

MiroFish

MiroFish

MiroFish

MiroFish

From raw data to intelligent decision - making, a real closed - loop begins to form.

The goal of the MiroFish team is clear: to build an AI prediction system that can simulate the real world, from financial markets to social events, from business decisions to creative experiments, and let the future evolve in the digital world in advance.

All prediction tasks that can be monetized in reality are the target scenarios of MiroFish.

MiroFish

The target application scenarios of MiroFish: financial decision - making support, policy and public opinion prediction, public relations crisis simulation, marketing strategy testing, story and fiction deduction, academic research support

Currently, this project has 5.7K stars on Github 🌟. The experience website is as follows 👇:

MiroFish

Two consecutive open - source projects have topped the GitHub trending list, and both were completed in ten days.

BaiFu has successfully proven that "Vibe coding has infinite potential", and he himself is a Chinese sample of super individuals!

MiroFish

Not just in Silicon Valley, one - person companies are becoming the mainstream

The reason why both of these projects could be completed in ten days is largely due to the brand - new development model of Vibe Coding.

It's obvious that AI is changing the boundaries of individual productivity.

In the past, a complete product required a large number of positions to complete. But now, with the help of AI tools, one person can be a team.

The former can create a 100 - point product in 10 days, while the latter can create