Chapter Ninety-Nine: Building a Website
Xiong Dawei listened to Rococo's idea of the so-called 'original comic creation platform', but his brows couldn't help but tighten.
He didn't care about the difficulty of building this original comic creation platform. Even those things on the technical level, he didn't even think about them. He is now only aiming at the current sluggishness of China's comic industry, which makes him feel that it is not a good choice for Rococo to invest in such a website.
"I said, brother, are you really thinking about what to do?"
"I may be able to understand your thoughts, traditional comic publishing is not good, then use the Internet to solve it, this is a good idea, but how to say it."
Even if you're the god of operations, you can't mess around.
Xiong Dawei believes that the reason why Chinese comics are not good is not that the platform is not good in the final analysis, but that in the context of such an era, there are no excellent comic works in China.
Of course! Xiong Dawei can also think that this is a kind of investment in Rococo. It's just that what's the point of a website if it can't make a clear profit.
If Rococo had to do this, I'm afraid it would ......
Anyway, if it were an investor, Xiong Dawei would not be interested in such a project for the time being.
Xiong Dawei communicated his thoughts with Rococo, and they were all very practical problems, in Xiong Dawei's opinion.
For example:
First, now the people who have time to read comics are basically college students, and only college students have the conditions (computers) and have time to read webtoons, and now they only count the number of ordinary college graduates in the country from 04 to 07, a total of 12 million, so in terms of consumer groups, it is destined that Rococo cannot have too much market;
Second, the question of whether the work is interesting or not, today's college students are used to watching Japanese comics. So Chinese comics, do not meet everyone's taste? Anyway, if it's a four-panel comic like the one on "Bosom Friend", he can't be interested in reading it. Didn't you see that the messages in the book are all in the sixth grade, junior high school, and high school? It's because these children haven't seen much of the world and are easy to fool;
Third, it is the question of whether the strength of Rococo is strong. Opening a website is not just about opening it, but also about hiring someone to maintain it, and letting the author stay. It takes money to hire someone to maintain it, and if you want to keep the author, you also need money, otherwise the author can't help you paint for free, you have to pay some rent, water, electricity, food and drink.
Xiong Dawei listed his concerns little by little, and finally came to sum up: It is not a good time to do this.
And in fact, Rococo also takes these into account, after all, it's only 08 years now, and many things, whether it's hardware or software, are quite immature. But how to put it, there is only one reason why Rococo must do this - that is, she wants to be the leader of this industry. If the conditions are ripe and everyone can do it, then what's the point of Rococo putting one foot into it?
Moreover, those who take the lead tend to have a better chance of success.
Faced with several major questions thrown by his little brother, Rococo soon chose to ignore it and typed: "Although you say so, I still want to do it!" It was decided so happily and the cooperation is pleasant! ”
"What is the pleasure of cooperation?"
"Of course, we built this website together, and it was a pleasure to work together. I don't know how to design a website, I don't even know what the server is or what it looks like, of course you have to do all these things. You will take it as if you have invested in your technology, and when the time comes, I will not forget you. ”
“……”
Xiong Dawei found that he was pitted, and he couldn't cry or laugh at his computer, he shouldn't have turned on the computer today!
And Rococo urged Xiong Dawei, and Xiong Dawei could only urge his partner Lao Zhou.
In fact, things at the technical level are really not difficult problems, but the difficult ones are author resources and reader resources.
"Old Zhou?"
"What's wrong?"
"Are you free?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"There's a private job."
Lao Zhou hadn't heard this sentence from Xiong Dawei for many years, and Xiong Dawei only said this when the money was not enough in the past.
Then, the old Monday listened to a server, and then a website. It's not easy, they worked with their teachers when they were still in college.
"It's almost the same layout as an adult pirated comic website, right?"
"Hmm...... Anyway, what he (Rococo) said was to keep it simple. ”
In about two weeks, the website came out, concise and elegant. I have already shown the model to Rococo, and Rococo also thinks it is good. As for the server, after receiving the payment from Rococo, Xiong Dawei also bought the server for hosting as soon as possible, and by the way, he did a good job of registration and filing to prevent it from being seized by relevant departments.
But now the website is there, but there is no work on it!
And then......
Rococo went to find his teacher Zhao Lifeng, Zhao Lifeng had painted a lot of eunuch works before, although they were all works that people didn't look up to, but it was also excellent to take them to fill the scene.
And at the same time......
Doesn't the website need to be managed? Then Liu Feiyan will be the big boss, Zhao Lifeng will be the administrator, and then if there is something that needs to be optimized, Rococo will go to Xiong Dawei again, and Xiong Dawei will go to Lao Zhou, and Lao Zhou will act as a technician.
At this point, the "Meng Meng Da Original Comics Factory" has a rough prototype.
And in this process, Lao Zhou also only thought it was really 'private work', and then learned that the boss behind the website was opened by Luoshen, who is known as the "God of Operation".
All of a sudden, Lao Zhou also became interested, of course Lao Zhou also knew that the current domestic comic industry was not developing very well, but how to say it, after all, Luo Shen is the "god of operation", in case of death, it can be lived, so what to do?
Looking forward to it......
"That's it...... How can I make money on this site? Lao Zhou asked Xiong Dawei.
"Have you read a web novel?" Xiong Dawei replied.
"Oh! Is it charged by the chapter? "Old Zhou.
"That's it, anyway, I'm not very optimistic about the future of this site. And now many people in our country don't even have the habit of reading comics, let alone let people pay. "David Xiong.
"In fact, you can also make advertising money, if you really can't." What Lao Zhou means is that that's how those pirated websites survived.
In the office, the two discussed, and suddenly, Xiong Dawei received another email, through the prompt of the email title, Xiong Dawei knew that it must be his brother looking for him again, but what the hell is this "project development design book about adding Happy Farm on my cute website"?