Open skill
In progress · open release next
Industry Profit Pool Skill
A reusable research method for finding who pays, where profit stays, who carries risk, and whether an opportunity has structural permission to exist.
Preparing the public release
An independent studio by Faye
Make small things.Build a life around them.
Cuoluo Studio is where small products, open methods, practical tools, and unfinished thoughts grow into a body of work.
Now
Updated · September 2026
Journling is now live: a private learning journal for turning real Chinese or mixed-language writing into natural English and expressions worth keeping.
Made by Cuoluo
Small products, methods, and experiments with a reason to exist.
Each piece starts with a specific problem. Some become products, some remain open methods, and some simply teach the next thing.
AI-native product
0→1 shipped · 1→100 in progress
Journling · 记录吧
Journling is an AI-native English-learning journal for people who understand more English than they can actively express. Write about your real life in Chinese or mixed language; AI turns it into natural English, explains the language in context, and helps you keep expressions that matter to you.
Open product
AI-native product
0→1 shipped · 1→100 in progress
Checkzi Trade
Checkzi is an AI-native trade decision self-check for investors who want to avoid rushed decisions when emotion takes over. Before placing a trade, write down your rationale, position size, and emotion; AI turns that context into a structured decision check that helps you see what is driving you. It does not predict prices, and the decision remains yours.
Open product
Browser extension
Live · continuing to improve
Stand Up Reminder · Time to Walk
Time to Walk is a browser extension for people who spend long hours at a desk and routinely dismiss break reminders. After each focus interval, a fullscreen prompt that is harder to skip gets you out of your chair to move before you return to work.
View in Chrome Web Store
Agent Skills repository
Maintained · original and curated
useful-agent-skills
An actively maintained collection of original and curated Agent Skills for Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and other agent tools.
Browse the GitHub repository
Audio + notes
Ongoing · cases become episodes
Podcast & Working Notes
Industry reviews, product decisions, and the thinking behind the methods—recorded while the work is still moving.
Archive being organized
Cuoluo Stack
Not just which tools, but when and why to use them.
Only tools that have been used, compared, or understood belong here. The useful part is when to use one, why it fits, what it costs, and where it breaks.
Build & ship
Hosting, databases, payments, product analytics, and the small infrastructure choices that keep a one-person company moving.
AI coding & automation
Tools and workflows for turning an idea into working software without pretending the human judgment disappears.
Research & decisions
Methods for understanding industries, companies, products, and choices before spending serious time or money.
Feedback & distribution
Practical ways to hear users, improve discoverability, and distribute work without becoming a full-time growth machine.
Ideas & Aesthetics
Small Things, Made Part of Everyday Life
I write about how I choose problems, turn ideas into products, and build a life around making things consistently.
Why Start Small
A product does not have to be ambitious. A specific problem or a single real use case can still be worth solving well.
Deciding What Is Worth Making
Start with a real need. Ask whether the problem exists, whether the solution works, and whether it deserves more time and effort.
How AI Is Changing Independent Creation
AI makes it faster to turn an idea into a usable product, while the judgment around problems, direction, and trade-offs still stays human.
Making Creation a Daily Practice
Do not wait for the perfect idea or rely on short bursts of motivation. Keep observing, building, publishing, and learning from real feedback.
About Cuoluo
Faye keeps making. Cuoluo Studio gives the work room to grow.
Faye Makes It is the moving, unfinished process: experiments, research, decisions, and the honest record of making things in public.
Cuoluo Studio is the long-term home: a place where differently shaped tools and ideas can accumulate without being forced into one oversized product.