Meta's personal AI agent app for ordinary phone users that, with your approval, handles email, books dinners, tracks budgets and finds deals.
First released in the US on 2026-09-08 and in Japan on 2026-10-22, it is now #1 on Japan's free chart (all and productivity) and #3 overall / #1 productivity in the US.
- Who can ride it
- Guide and how-to sites, prompt-template galleries, and Japanese-language AI tips sites.
- What to build
- Write a plain-language guide in Japanese and English on setting Muse up for email, reservations, budgets and deal finding.
- Build a gallery of ready-to-copy requests for Muse ("find a cheaper plan", "book dinner for 4", "check my subscriptions") that people can tap and copy.
- Make a short checklist page on what Muse asks you to approve, so new users know what it can and cannot do.
- Risks
- Meta may change features quickly, so guides go out of date.
- Many sites will write the same basic guide; you need to be fast.
Apple Intelligence has finally gone live on mainland-China iPhones, and Apple fans are posting screenshots and comparing what they get.
The V2EX post "国行 AI 真的来了" got 59 replies in 16 hours.
- Who can ride it
- Chinese-language how-to sites and iPhone tips sites that can explain the launch step by step.
- What to build
- Publish a Chinese guide on how to check whether your China-model iPhone gets Apple Intelligence and how to turn it on.
- Make a one-page FAQ collecting the questions people ask in these threads, with clear answers and screenshots.
- Write a 'first 10 things to try' list with example inputs for each feature.
- Risks
- Rollout may differ by model and region, so check facts before you publish.
- Big tech media will cover it too; go deep on how-to, not news.
A rundown of what China-model Apple Intelligence can do, with answers provided by Qwen: writing tools, photo clean-up, natural-language photo search, memory movies, visual intelligence, live translation and call/recording summaries.
The V2EX post listing these features got 13 replies in 10 hours, right after the launch thread above.
- Who can ride it
- Feature-by-feature tutorial sites and prompt/template sites for writing tools.
- What to build
- Make one short tutorial page per feature (photo clean-up, photo search, memory movies, live translation) with before/after examples.
- Build a template library of inputs for the writing tools: proofreading, rewriting, summaries and drafting.
- Write a page of photo-search and memory-movie prompts people can copy ("cat photos from last summer", "trip to the sea").
- Risks
- The feature list may change as Apple and Qwen update it.
A Japanese fan app that gathers your favourite idol, VTuber, K-POP star, voice actor or anime character's official YouTube, X and website updates in one feed, with ticket and merch deadline alerts.
First released 2026-10-13, it is now #6 on Japan's free chart and #1 in lifestyle; it covers about 50,000 candidate 'oshi'.
- Who can ride it
- Fan-activity (推し活) asset sites: AI sticker and wallpaper makers, fan-board and banner generators.
- What to build
- Add a 推し活 mode to the sticker maker: pick your oshi's colour and generate original stickers, wallpapers and fan-board text designs.
- Build a free 'oshi deadline calendar' template page fans can print or save for ticket and merch dates.
- Write a Japanese guide on making original fan goods with AI without using official photos.
- Risks
- Copyright and likeness: do not generate or host official idol photos or logos.
TikTok's official short-drama app, where phone users watch vertical mini-series.
First released 2025-12-23, it is #8 on the US free chart and #2 in entertainment.
- Who can ride it
- Production tools for short-drama creators: script, storyboard and poster generators.
- What to build
- Build an AI tool that turns a story idea into a vertical short-drama episode outline with hooks and cliffhangers.
- Make an AI poster and thumbnail generator sized for vertical short dramas, with genre presets (romance, revenge, CEO).
- Write a guide for creators on structuring 1-minute episodes, using examples from popular genres.
- Risks
- Short-drama trends can fade quickly.
- Do not use TikTok or PineDrama logos in your assets.
A Chinese-language static gallery of 1,439 pose sets (2,878 images) used by people who draw or make AI images.
The repo has 5,874 stars and 1,500 forks within 191 hours, with a live site at ai-pose-gallery.anhao.app.
- Who can ride it
- AI image and sticker generators, pose and reference galleries.
- What to build
- Add pose presets to the sticker maker so users pick a pose and get a character sticker in that pose.
- Build an English and Japanese pose gallery with search by action (sitting, running, pointing) and copy-ready prompts.
- Write a guide on using pose references to get consistent AI characters.
- Risks
- Check the image licence before reusing any pictures from the gallery.
An article comparing the features and prices of 7 Japanese house makers, plus local-builder costs and 10 years of cost changes, for people planning to build a home.
It got 307 Hatena bookmarks in 25 hours.
- Who can ride it
- Home-building cost calculators and comparison sites in Japanese.
- What to build
- Build a simple cost estimator where users enter floor size and budget and see which kind of builder fits.
- Make a comparison table page of house makers by structure, equipment and inspection scope, with sources linked.
- Write a checklist of questions to ask a house maker before signing.
- Risks
- Prices change; cite sources and dates, and do not make up figures.
An app for watching roughly one-minute vertical short dramas, mostly adapted from novels (romance, CEO, revenge), used by ordinary phone users.
It is #10 on Japan's free chart and #1 in entertainment, and #44 in US entertainment (first released 2023-06-12).
- Who can ride it
- Tools for short-drama creators and novel writers who want to adapt stories.
- What to build
- Build an AI tool that turns a novel chapter into a short-drama script split into one-minute episodes.
- Make an AI cover generator with genre presets that match these apps (romance, CEO, billionaire, revenge).
- Write a Japanese guide for creators on adapting web novels into vertical short dramas.
- Risks
- The app itself is not new; the wave is the genre, not GoodShort.
- Trend may fade.