Original Editor: Aeneas KingHZ
Original Source: Xinzhiyuan
Introduction: A senior undergraduate student, ten days of Vibe Coding, secured 30 million in investment in three months, turning his graduation project into a company! As the domestic open-source project MiroFish topped the GitHub trending list, the era of the 'super individual' creating global hits single-handedly has truly arrived.
Waking up to find the domestic open-source AI project MiroFish at the top of the GitHub trending list!
Unexpectedly, the force behind MiroFish, which surpassed open-source projects from organizations like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft, is a domestic senior undergraduate student who secured 30 million in investment in just three months.
With one AI open-source project, he directly turned his graduation project into a startup company and became its CEO?
This isn't a myth; it's a story真实地 happening domestically in this AI era.
Even more神奇的是, his previous project, BettaFish, also once topped the global GitHub trending list.
Both projects not only reached the number one spot but were also vibe coded by this post-00s kid brother in just 10 days.
Link:https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UyYVjlBCvQRJI6B_MmZbsA?scene=1&click_id=22
When we delve into the details, we discover the significance of the era behind it: The era of the super individual has truly arrived!
When AI tools, open-source communities, and the power of young developers converge, one person becomes an innovation army.
In the future, there will be more super individuals, creating more entrepreneurial myths of the AI era.
The Three Months of a Senior Undergraduate: From GitHub Fame to 30 Million Investment
The beginning of the story seems quite ordinary.
In the summer of 2025, senior student BaiFu was still anxious about internships.
At that time, his further education plans were settled, so he wanted to finish his graduation project early to free up time to look for an internship.
He didn't choose to handwrite tens of thousands of lines of code from scratch. Instead, he opened tools like Claude Code and began the then very popular development method—Vibe Coding.
Within ten days, he integrated his university years of accumulation into an open-source project called BettaFish.
This is an AI public opinion analysis tool that can automatically scrape online public opinion information and generate structured analysis reports.
"Wei Yu" helps everyone break information cocoons, restore the original picture of public opinion, predict future trends, and assist decision-making
Users only need to提出分析需求 like chatting, and the agent begins fully automatic analysis of 30+ mainstream social media platforms domestically and internationally and millions of public comments.
Technically, it combines automated data scraping, large model analysis, and automatic report generation, ultimately outputting a dozens-page public opinion analysis document.
For many enterprises, such work typically requires an entire team to complete, while BettaFish attempts to automate this process using AI.
However, when BettaFish was first completed, it wasn't met with high expectations. Even BaiFu's PhD senior directly criticized it after seeing it: "This is not a qualified graduation project; you need to put more thought into revising it."
After 1000 Stars, a Miracle Occurred
After the project went online, there was indeed not much movement.
BaiFu, like many independent developers, tried various forms of promotion, such as submitting articles to open-source weeklies and public accounts, posting videos on Bilibili, posting in technical communities, etc., but the效果并不明显.
After much effort in promotion, the project finally reached 1k stars. Unexpectedly, this became the first traffic turning point for BettaFish.
BaiFu was already very satisfied with this, so he wrote a summary article and posted it on Xiaohongshu, titled "What Can a 1K+ Star Open Source Project Bring to a College Student?".
Who would have thought that a week after the article was published, a miracle occurred!
The article was转发、推荐 by several big Vs in the tech community.
Subsequently, BettaFish's GitHub page began to see a significant traffic explosion, with Stars growing at an astonishing rate—5K, 10K, 20K, 30K......
In just a few days, the project gained over 20,000 new Stars!
As a result, BettaFish quickly rose to number one on the GitHub global trending list and became one of the most discussed open-source projects in the domestic AI development circle at the time.
After this project went viral, a flood of emails began pouring into BaiFu's inbox, such as internship invitations from big tech companies, technical collaboration invites, and even olive branches from investment institutions.
Later, the number of project users increased, and related demands exploded! The surge of a large number of users brought him tremendous pressure.
The Shanda Phone Call
After犹豫不定、陷入迷茫 for a long time, Baifu decided to go all-in on entrepreneurship. At this time, a phone call changed the course of events.
Chen Tianqiang, founder of the Shanda Group, saw BettaFish and showed great interest, hoping to communicate further with him.
At the time, BaiFu's inbox was overflowing, and he had almost no time to reply, but the Shanda team persevered in contacting him. Eventually, moved by their enthusiasm, he agreed to talk.
During the subsequent conversation, BaiFu was impressed. He genuinely felt that Shanda was more serious about "embracing super individuals" than any other company.
Chen Tianqiang直言不讳地表示 that BettaFish's technical level was not particularly outstanding.
However, the complete planning of the entire process from data collection and analysis to prediction demonstrated in the project, as well as the ability to "see and define real, valuable problems and attempt to solve them in new ways using AI," were exactly what Shanda valued.
After hanging up, BaiFu didn't hesitate for a moment. He packed his bags and went alone to Shanghai to start cooperating with Shanda.
The Birth of MiroFish: Developing a Second Project in Ten Days
With Shanda's support and the great freedom given, BaiFu began working on a new idea.
If BettaFish solved the analysis of the past, the new project aimed to solve the prediction of the future.
This project, named MiroFish,核心思路就是构建一个模拟真实世界的数字沙盘.
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 construct a high-fidelity parallel digital world.
Within this space, thousands of intelligent agents构建了一个「平行宇宙」.
Each agent possesses an independent personality, long-term memory, and behavioral logic, capable of free interaction and social evolution.
This time, BaiFu again chose Vibe Coding,依旧神速——
In just ten days, the development of MiroFish was completed.
That night, BaiFu, looking at the running program, excitedly recorded a rough demo and directly submitted it to Chen Tianqiang.
Within 24 hours of submitting the video, the two held their second conversation. Chen Tianqiang当场拍板: The group will invest 30 million to fully support the deep incubation of MiroFish!
Overnight, BaiFu went from being a Shanda intern to the CEO of an AI startup company.
MiroFish has gone further than BettaFish:
The end point of BettaFish's analysis became the starting point of MiroFish's prediction.
From raw data to intelligent decision-making, a true闭环开始形成.
MiroFish's goal is clear: to build an AI prediction system capable of simulating the real world, from financial markets to social events, from business decisions to creative experiments, allowing the future to evolve early in the digital world.
Any predictive task that can be monetized in reality is a target scenario for MiroFish.
MiroFish's target application scenarios: financial decision support, policy and public opinion prediction, PR crisis simulation, marketing strategy testing, story and fiction deduction, academic research support
Currently, the project has 5.7K stars 🌟 on Github. The体验网站 is as follows👇:
Link:https://666ghj.github.io/mirofish-demo/
Two consecutive open-source projects both topped the GitHub trending list, both in ten days.
BaiFu successfully proved that "Vibe coding has infinite potential," and he himself is a Chinese sample of a super individual!
Not Just Silicon Valley, One-Person Companies Are Becoming Mainstream
The fact that both projects could be completed in ten days is largely due to this new development model called Vibe Coding.
It is evident to all: AI is changing the boundaries of individual productivity.
In the past, a complete product required many roles to complete. Now, one person, with the help of AI tools, can become a team.
The former can make a 100-point product in 10 days, while the latter can make a 70-point product in just 1 day. In the AI era, speed itself is a competitiveness!
This kind of "one-person company" (OPC) super individual has now become mainstream in Silicon Valley.
The most obvious example is the recently hotly discussed Father of Lobster—Peter Steinberger.
This lobster agent OpenClaw, which has taken the world by storm, was created by him alone.
Single-handedly, he created OpenClaw, which彻底颠覆了消费级智能体!
Coincidentally, the paradigm shift represented by OpenClaw恰恰为一个人公司提供了最核心的虚拟员工, making this revolution possible.
A similar example is Boris Cherny, the father of Anthropic's Claude Code.要知道, Claude Code was entirely his side project!
