A 22-year-old college student in Shenzhen used a redmi phone worth 900 yuan and earned $14,700 in just one month.

His parents still think to this day that he’s seriously preparing for exams.

Every half hour, the phone automatically opens six Chinese news apps, browses headlines, takes screenshots, and sends the summaries to Claude for analysis.
After comparing with Polymarket market trends, the AI gives betting advice.

The whole process is zero-code. The core tool is the open-source project PhoneDriver—which lets the AI “watch the screen” like a human and operate autonomously; you just need to describe the task in plain language.
The key is the time gap: from when Chinese news is published to when English traders react, it usually takes 20 to 50 minutes.
Information appears first on headlines, then Polymarket markets reprice it.

Of the six apps, three have anti-scraping, but PhoneDriver doesn’t parse data—it only looks at pixels. In normal use, it’s just fast and doesn’t rest.