AP student · Fuzhou, China
I'm Venus Chen, a high-school student from Fuzhou.
I've built an AP Economics study product and an IELTS Speaking tool; served as president of my school's business club and dragged my classmates out to sell flowers off campus for the first time; and rehearsed and performed with my own band.
I can't really write code in the traditional sense, but I love vibe coding — not because I want to become a programmer, but because I can't stand watching a good idea die in my head.
So I keep asking: if this thing actually got built, would anyone want to use it?
Sometimes the answer is "yes." Sometimes it's "absolutely not." I kind of love both answers.
02 — Business Club · 纳思商业模拟社
I'm not a fan of talking business only inside a classroom. Over the past thirteen months we've run three stalls: two Qixi flower sales and a tarot booth at the sports-meet flea market. Every time we started with sourcing and pricing, and ended with costing, a written retrospective, and profit-sharing under an agreement written up front. I want the club's "business" to live somewhere beyond PowerPoint.
I run a year-long elective under the club's name — 40 minutes a week, taught by me, with 50+ students enrolled. I didn't want it to be "listen to me lecture about business." I want every team to live through the birth of a product firsthand: find the problem → find the users → build the product → figure out the business model → bring in AI → ship it → get real people to test it → keep iterating. Each group has three roles — Explorer, Builder, Product Owner: someone hunts problems and users, someone builds the thing, someone keeps the whole product moving — and it all ends with a Demo Day where they actually show what they made.
The funny thing is, the course design isn't what made me happiest. Before class started I asked everyone: "what do you most want to learn?" The notes came back: economics, AI coding, monopoly simulations — and one said "I want to learn all of it." Since then the classroom has been full almost every week. It was the first time I realized that teaching people to build is itself a product: you have to hear what they actually want before deciding what to teach.
From Qixi 2025 to the 2026 sports meet, the club ran three stalls in total: two flower sales and one tarot-reading booth. Before each stall we worked out costs, sourcing, pricing and a profit target; afterwards we reconciled every income and expense line, wrote the retrospective, and split profits under a written agreement.
At the first flower sale, what I cared about most was "can we sell it all?" By the later stalls, I cared about something else more: can a teenager actually learn how business works from running a street stall?
Fresh flowers, handmade bracelets, and a polaroid corner. The margin was modest, but we ran the full loop — sourcing, pricing, selling, and splitting the take under a written agreement.
Seven people split into departments — procurement, promotion, sales, finance — under a written profit-sharing plan. Compared with our first stall a year earlier, the scale, the division of labor, and the mechanics were all a level more complete.
What actually sold: single stems and flowers customers assembled on the spot. What didn't: pre-designed bouquets, our mini-games, and the polaroid add-on. The plan survived contact with the street for about an hour.
For the third stall we changed the product: tarot readings at the flea market. Nearly zero cost, and pricing works completely differently when what you sell is an experience, not a bouquet.
"Business isn't one sale that works. It's turning every miss into next time's playbook."
03 — Music
我在学校组建的乐队。2025 年 9 月第一次登台，九个月里完成了三场校内演出——从新生文艺汇演，到跨年元旦晚会，再到夏季音乐会。
04 — Vibe Coding Products
我不太会传统意义上的编程，但我很喜欢做产品。我会从一个自己遇到的问题开始，找用户、拆需求、设计流程，再用 vibe coding 把它变成一个真的能打开的网站。到现在，我已经把几款想法真正上线过。有人用过，也有人完全不用；有的还在继续，有的已经暂停。我越来越在意的不是“我做了几个产品”，而是：做出来以后，真实的人到底怎么反应。
给 AP Micro 学生做的英文刷题与全真机考模考。
我刚考完 AP Micro，拿到了 5 分。备考的时候，我发现自己真正卡住的往往不是经济学知识，而是读懂英文题目、判断题目到底在问什么。所以我做了 EasyEcon：不是把题目翻译成中文，而是在保留英文原题的情况下，给中国学生更多中文语境下的理解帮助。我自己做题库、设计产品流程和模考体验，再用 vibe coding 把它做出来。模考参考 College Board Bluebook 的考试体验，包括限时 MCQ 和 FRQ，目前已经收录 2025 真题。后来我拿着一页纸的产品介绍去找国际部主任。主任看完后同意让十年级约 40 名学生在本学期试用。现在我最想知道的已经不是“能不能做出来”，而是：他们会不会愿意真的做完一次模考，然后再回来做第二次。
我们想解决的不是“不会说英语”，而是“真正遇到事情时，不知道该怎么说”。
在四人团队里，我负责产品方向和用户场景，也负责路演叙事和视觉物料。我们没有把它做成又一个背单词或 AI 聊天工具，而是把场景放进便利店面试、业务办理等高压力的真实交流里：你面对的不是一道题，而是一个真的会追问你的“人”。线上可以直接用 App；线下面试则可以搭配 AR 眼镜获得实时翻译和回答思路——硬件不是必须的。AdventureX 2026 有约 8,975 人申请、800 人到现场。我们的 KiboTalk 最后获得蚂蚁集团灵光赛道「最真诚奖」，团队获得 ¥2,000 奖金。这也是我第一次特别清楚地意识到：一个产品讲得再漂亮，如果没有一个真实的人和一个真实的场景，它还是只是 PPT。
我的第一款产品：一个 AI IELTS Speaking 模考与评分工具。
2025 年 9 月，我刚开始学 vibe coding，就想做一个自己真正会用的东西。我当时对 IELTS Speaking 最不满意的一点是：不同平台给出的评分和真实考试体验差得太远。所以我做了 PromptSpeak，希望把完整的 Part 1 / 2 / 3 模考和评分放进一个更接近真实考试的流程里。它真的上线了，也真的有人用——大约 32 人。但后来我发现，“能做出来”和“值得继续做”是两回事。获客成本太高，竞品又已经很强。继续投入并不会自动让它成为一个好生意，所以我选择暂停。这是我第一次真正从自己的产品里体会到：一个产品可以做得不错，却仍然不是一个值得继续做的产品。
一个被学妹真的拿去背单词的英语猜词游戏。
我做完以后，本来只是把链接发给一位学妹。她后来真的拿去背了一段时间，告诉我：“比死背省力。”她还提出了一个很具体的需求：自定义词库最好能显示中文释义。这可能是我收到过最小的一条产品反馈，却也是让我最开心的一条。因为那一刻，我第一次很具体地感受到：我做的东西不再只是“我的作品”，而开始变成别人的工具。
一个我做着玩的小游戏：把泉州非遗塞进竖屏像素跑酷里。
这是我第一次尝试做游戏。没有商业计划，也没有融资故事——就是觉得如果泉州的东西能变成一个可以边跑边玩的游戏，会不会挺有意思？最后我把它和小红书小工具包一起发布，也第一次尝试按照内容平台，而不是应用商店的逻辑去设计一个产品。
