(ECNS) -- A 13-year-old girl from Shanghai with little programming experience earned more than 18,000 yuan ($2,680) in net income from an AI-powered study tool, placing third at a 48-hour sales competition in Hangzhou.
The Markethon, held from Friday to Sunday, brought together more than 50 teams. Instead of being judged by a panel, the participating AI products were ranked based on their actual sales performance.
Zhu Shuhan’s tool, “Zaichang”, leverages an uploaded photo of a parent to generate a virtual study companion. When the camera detects the child using a phone or stepping away from their desk, the virtual parent will issue a voice reminder. The tool also produces a focus-tracking report upon completion of each study session.
Zhu first encountered AI about a year ago and said she knows little about programming. She developed the tool's core functions in three to four days by describing her ideas to a large language model, which helped organize the logic and generate code.
The product received nearly 90 orders during the competition. Most were sold through livestreams and short videos promoted by Zhu’s mother, a Douyin livestreamer.
(By Intern Yang Hongran, Zhang Dongfang)
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