{"id":664694,"date":"2026-08-31T05:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/664694\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T05:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T05:49:16","slug":"china-teen-with-zero-programming-skills-earns-us2600-in-3-days-selling-ai-study-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/664694\/","title":{"rendered":"China teen with zero programming skills earns US$2,600 in 3 days selling AI study app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A 13-year-old girl in China has earned 18,000 yuan (US$2,600) in just three days from an artificial intelligence (AI) product she developed to assist parents in supervising their children\u2019s study habits.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhu Shuhan, a Grade Two student at a junior secondary school in Shanghai, has no programming background. She began using AI only last year, as reported by the Shanghai Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At a national AI product marketing competition held in Hangzhou from August 21 to August 23, Shuhan secured the third prize of 5,000 yuan, competing against over 50 participants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Competing against over 50 participants, Shuhan secured third prize and a 5,000-yuan cash reward at a national AI product marketing competition held in Hangzhou from August 21 to 23. Photo: ce.cn\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a9ebe18b-288e-405a-8722-aefba59612e3_c48eb65a.jpg\" title=\"Competing against over 50 participants, Shuhan secured third prize and a 5,000-yuan cash reward at a national AI product marketing competition held in Hangzhou from August 21 to 23. Photo: ce.cn\"\/>Competing against over 50 participants, Shuhan secured third prize and a 5,000-yuan cash reward at a national AI product marketing competition held in Hangzhou from August 21 to 23. Photo: ce.cn<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The contest did not include technical judges; instead, winners were selected based on their AI-generated apps\u2019 income during the three-day period.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The app Shuhan created, called Zai Chang (translated as On Site in English), garnered 90 orders, resulting in total sales of 18,000 yuan, which helped her attain third place in the competition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Once a parent uploads a photo of themselves using the app, the system assumes the role of a virtual parent, supervising their child while they complete homework.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Should the camera detect that the child is playing on a mobile device or leaving their seat, the virtual parent displayed on the screen will issue a voice reminder.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Upon completion of the homework, the app generates a \u201cconcentration report.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old girl in China has earned 18,000 yuan (US$2,600) in just three days from an artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[110246,291,2472,289,290,381,5214,18,2422,19,17,14338,825,4467,2973,94495,22152,12299,2792,280803,280801,1002,82,80739,280800,280802],"class_list":["post-664694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-academic","tag-ai","tag-app","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-eire","tag-hangzhou","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-llm","tag-money","tag-parent","tag-parenting","tag-profit","tag-programming","tag-sale","tag-shanghai","tag-shanghai-morning-post","tag-shuhan","tag-study","tag-technology","tag-teen","tag-zai-chang","tag-zhu-shuhan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117188557429474033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}