刘小排

刘小排 Overview

Liu Xiaopai (刘小排) is a Chinese AI-product founder known for applying coding agents to commercial software development.^[1] He spent ten years as a product director at Cheetah Mobile and left on December 31, 2024, to build his own business.^[1] In a September 2025 interview, he described a self-funded company with approximately six or seven people, rather than a permanently solo operation.^[1] His career also includes independent projects developed before leaving employment; he identifies as both a product manager and a programmer.^[1]

What 刘小排 Built

Raphael AI is an AI image generator and editor with a browser-based basic mode, optional accounts, and paid access to faster or more advanced generation.^[2] Liu's own profile identifies him as Raphael AI's founder.^[3]

AnyVoice offers voice cloning from a short audio sample, text-to-speech and voice-design functions.^[4] It advertises a free allowance and a subscription for expanded usage and commercial rights.^[4]

Fast3D generates 3D assets from images or text and offers common 3D export formats.^[5] Its official changelog dates version 1.0 to July 1, 2025, when the service launched with free, login-free access.^[5]

Ralph Desktop is an MIT-licensed desktop controller for AI coding agents, combining conversational requirement gathering with repeated execution, progress monitoring and task recovery.^[6] Public release records show builds available by January 2026.^[7]

Raphael Publish is an open-source Markdown formatting and publishing editor aimed at WeChat article creators.^[8] It includes rich-text conversion, multiple visual themes, and HTML/PDF export.^[8]

BuilderPulse is a public collection of source-linked opportunity briefs for independent software builders, based on signals from developer and technology communities.^[9] Its public report archive uses a noncommercial content license; that should not be confused with an open-source software license.^[9]

How 刘小排 Builds

Liu said Cursor had been his main coding environment before he began shifting toward Claude Code in May 2025; he had also tried Augment Code.^[1] In a June 2025 article, he described using Cursor and Claude Code together and running several agent sessions, while warning beginners about simultaneous edits to the same files.^[10]

His use of coding agents extends into research and model engineering.^[1] For Fast3D, he described asking Claude Code to provision rented GPUs, deploy candidate open models, run benchmark datasets and help evaluate algorithmic improvements.^[1] He also publicly described developing a small real-time salary calculator with TRAE during a product demonstration in March 2025.^[3]

In June 2026, he described giving Codex CLI long-running tasks with explicit acceptance criteria and repeated automated evaluation.^[11] Ralph Desktop turns a related idea into a graphical workflow: an agent helps clarify an initial request, iterates toward completion, and can be paused or resumed.^[6]

Business Model

The portfolio mixes free acquisition with paid upgrades.^[2][4] Raphael AI provides basic guest generation alongside paid priority features, while AnyVoice offers a free tier and a subscription with commercial usage rights.^[2][4] Fast3D originally emphasized free and login-free generation, although its site also links to a pricing section.^[5]

Liu has said that some of his commercially important products remain unnamed because he does not want them copied.^[1] A March 2025 interview reproduced approximate portfolio income statements and daily product ranges, but not exact monthly product-level amounts suitable for verified revenue rows here.^[12] Therefore, no structured revenue figures are attributed to individual products.^[12]

Timeline

Lessons

His earlier product-development advice also stresses identifying underserved demand, showing an MVP to prospective users, measuring behavior, and abandoning ideas when validation fails.^[12] The Fast3D case illustrates a complementary principle: use agents to automate reproducible experiments, but retain human judgment when choosing and refining the underlying approach.^[1]

Further Reading

Claude Code in the AI IDE List directory, Cursor in the AI IDE List directory, Augment Code in the AI IDE List directory, TRAE in the AI IDE List directory, and Codex CLI in the AI IDE List directory.