I'm Rovshen — the solo founder behind Qiao. I'm putting this on the public site so the people downloading the app know exactly where it's heading and why.
I'm building Qiao because I'm the one moving to China to study. Every checklist item, every reminder, every phrase in the phrasebook is something I either needed myself or watched a friend stumble through. The calm, AI-personalised onboarding I wished existed when I was reading my admission letter — that's the app I'm shipping.
The plan isn't to stay a "China app" forever. The same problem — landing in a new country, no friends, twenty browser tabs open, deadlines you don't know about yet — exists in every relocation. So Qiao expands country by country, and only after we've earned the right to be there. Below is the path, in three phases I'll commit to in public.
One country at a time, no shortcuts. Each phase ships only when the previous one is genuinely useful — not just live.
Phase 1 · Now → 2026
Phase 2 · 2026 → 2027
Phase 3 · 2027 → 2028+
A worldwide adaptation platform that goes deeper than a checklist — admissions, community, and AI plans for any country.
We become the calmest place to apply to a foreign university. Pick a destination country, pick your level, and Qiao walks you through documents, deadlines, scholarships, language requirements and the actual application — then keeps walking with you on arrival. Think of it as the admission funnel that already cared about you before you booked the flight.
Newcomers helping newcomers. A trilingual community — local chats per university and per city, verified mentors who landed last year, and a curated wall where the questions everyone is too shy to ask in WeChat groups get straight answers. Built into the app, not bolted on through a Telegram link.
The same engine that writes your China plan should write your Germany, Korea, Japan or Brazil plan. Country-aware prompts, locale-aware phrase pools, and a world map that says "yes, we've got you here too" — wherever you're heading next.
100+ native-audio phrases for every language a Qiao newcomer arrives in — German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic. Same five-level ladder, same ten categories, same calm pace.
Your streaks, your achievements and your adaptation level follow you from country to country. China alumnus moving to Spain? Your "city scholar" badge stays. New reminders, new phrasebook, same calm Qiao.
Qiao stays small on purpose. We won't become a social network, a marketplace or a dating app. The mission is one sentence: make landing in a new country quiet instead of chaotic. Everything we ship answers to that.
Qiao isn't a market study. It's the app I'm shipping for myself in parallel with thousands of other people landing in China this year.
I'm a young founder going to study in China. The reason this is being built solo, transparently, and on a public roadmap is simple: I'm both the user and the developer. Every annoying gap in the first six months becomes a feature. Every time the app saves me an hour, I know it'll save the next student two.
Once China feels finished — not "live", finished — I move to Europe with the same playbook: one country at a time, real arrivals, real feedback. The United States is the prize at the end of that road, and I'd rather earn it than rush it.
If you're a student, a tourist, a business traveller or a new resident — Qiao is already for you, today, in China. If you're an admissions office, a university or a partner who can help us land in a new country sooner, write to me directly at support@qiaoguide.com.
I post launch updates and country-launch news on the official Telegram channel.
