A starting point involving six developers
Changjiang Daily's February 2026 account described Lu and five partners founding Yunzhong Xingchen in Wuhan and using AI for lightweight applications. This is a historical six-person team, not an always-solo business.
Editorial analysis: a prototype shifts the problem toward operation
Prototypes test understanding of functions; continuing products need accounts, permissions, recovery, feedback and updates. Counting new apps can understate support, deployment and data upkeep. A better unit is one user's ability to finish a task independently, with clear responsibility after failure.
Before launch, rehearse a real task from entry and submission through results, error discovery and feedback, including deletion or export. Define trial scope, retain errors and provide manual handling before expanding features or users.
Check whether collaboration grows with capability
Six people's skills can complement each other, but handovers and support still need ownership. We infer neither current staffing nor income; the question is whether AI coding speed and maintenance capacity improve together. Further reading: regression samples after AI development.