Every Chinese solo developer hits this wall eventually: Apple and Google Play want a D-U-N-S number for your company, and the official channels are scattered between two providers and one email address that bounces. Here is the path we actually took, with dates.

The one-person company went from niche term to national economic category in two years. Real registration numbers, the new July 2026 definition, and my own two-computer setup as one data point inside the boom.