Positioning
Liu Xiaopai is an AI product builder and founder of Raphael AI. His Jike profile shares product and AI coding experiences, while his GitHub profile presents open-source development work. The two accounts corroborate each other: his Jike bio reads “Raphael AI 创始人” (Raphael AI founder), and the blog field of his GitHub profile points to raphael.app.
Career and representative work
Raphael AI: a free AI image generation product at raphael.app. According to his pinned Jike post, it was the first product he released after starting his company, grew from zero to over one million monthly active users within a month, and was run by him alone (his own account, not an independent audit).
Open source: his GitHub shows projects including Ralph Desktop (a visual controller for AI coding agents that helps brainstorm requirements and execute tasks through persistent iteration) and Raphael Publish (a Markdown typesetting engine for WeChat official accounts).
Mention in the show
Liu Xiaopai does not appear in the episode quoted on this page. In episode 007’s chapter “不用守着电脑：边做边改，只说自己要什么” (No need to watch the computer: steer as you go, ask only for outcomes), Orange relays a suggestion about “asking AI for a tenfold goal” with an example: instead of asking to cut ten seconds to five, ask for 0.2 seconds, because “他可能会给你更好的方案” (it may come back with a better approach); Yang Pan supplies the name “刘小排” (Liu Xiaopai) in the conversation (see the lines, here and here in the Chinese transcript). The “tenfold goal” advice is the hosts’ retelling of Liu Xiaopai’s public statements, not a statement by him on the show.
Common confusions
- Liu Xiaopai vs. Raphael AI: this entry is the person; Raphael AI is the image generation product he founded, and the two are not interchangeable.
- raphael.app vs. other AI tools named Raphael: the product referenced here is the service at the domain raphael.app.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Liu Xiaopai?
An AI product builder and founder of Raphael AI who shares product and AI coding work publicly on Jike and GitHub; see his GitHub profile.
What is Raphael AI?
A free AI image generation product at raphael.app which, per its own page, offers free image generation without login; see the official site.
Did Liu Xiaopai participate in episode 007?
No. He is mentioned in the conversation; the participants are Guizang, Xiangyang Qiaomu, Yang Pan and Orange.