When Zou Sheng was scolded by Shi Guanghu, Gu Mojie still had the leisure to invite his cousin Zhou Lixin for a drink.

After getting Jeff Hinton's money, Gu Mojie was briefly confused, feeling that after the "Hatsune Input Method" was completed, he didn't know which software field the company should develop next.

If it was a year ago, Gu Mojie suddenly had such a lot of money, his idea was naturally very simple: he should continue to be guided by the three major software that comes with the Hatsune Niang system, and look for "input method", "audio master", "graphics master", which of these things can be ported to today's era at a relatively low cost.

In other words, Gu Mojie's ideological realm at that time was actually still at the level of a programmer, and did not rise to the level of an Internet company boss. Before he chose to make a certain software, the first question that came to his mind was not "what will be the hottest in the future", but "what can I do with my current technology and capital".

The reason why the first chess piece was selected as the "Hatsune Input Method" was, on the one hand, because Gu Mojie tried to witness the opening of the cloud computing era; In the field of "self-learning and self-evolution" type of software, we will plant the first nail and consolidate our historical position in the future.

On the other hand, he is also limited by conditions, and he can only do so half-pushing, half-on-the-spot. Because in the several software that comes with Hatsune Niang,Only the input method is what he can do at that time.。

Hatsune Niang pushed, and he did. Fortunately, Gu Mojie was a programmer in his last life, and he was used to being assigned tasks by the leader, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Until this moment, Gu Mojie had spare money in hand - a total of more than 20 million cash flow, he felt that he could finally be willful. Get out of the shackles of "what can I do" and really think about "what do I want to do".

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My own brothers, naturally there is no need to be polite. On the weekend after the money arrived, Gu Mojie was free, so he went to Zhou Lixin's house and had a long talk with Zhou Lixin. As for eating and drinking. The takeaway that Gu Mojie ordered was also quite a bit of a partner drinking and deed.

Gu Mojie's aunt and uncle still run the factory, and they are not at home on weekends, so no one comes to disturb Gu Mojie and Zhou Lixin's chat.

It has been a year since Ahri Group's Taobao was launched, and Zhou Lixin has also been working in Ahri Group for a year. With Gu Mojie helping him with some funds as backing support, Zhou Lixin naturally made a little generous when he made friends in the company. In addition, he is already doing practical things, and his skills are excellent, and his knowledge growth in a year is not even under Gu Mojie. Supervisors were also promoted.

Large companies have the benefits of large companies, and although each individual is not exposed to a wide range of businesses, it can broaden people's horizons. Over the past year, Zhou Lixin Ahri and Gu Mojie have taken care of both ends, and although that strange experience is a little hard and tiring, it makes people have a lot of sharpness and cultivate some foresight.

Gu Mojie and Zhou Lixin ate and drank casually, and Gu Mojie tore open a roast goose. handed the wings to Zhou Lixin and picked up the conversation:

"Brother. The Canadians have also arrived with more than 10 million dollars. The next development direction should also be set and let the programmers get busy first. What I mean by this is to start with the fields of intelligent search music player or simple version of P-map software, pick one to do, and then get a fist product for the company. I don't have enough money for these things. Can't do it. What do you think? ”

Zhou Lixin took a goose leg to the point that only one stick bone remained, chewed for a long time, didn't keep up with his cousin's train of thought, and just persuaded a little impatiently: "Your business jump is too big, do the input method for a while." Want a music player in a while? P-Chart Software? Where is this? ”

Gu Mojie also drank a little wine before he said so. If you were sober, you wouldn't be so rash. If you want to say why he chose the topic like this, it is nothing more than inertia: because the Hatsune Niang system comes with those three software, copying those three software is the most cost-effective.

Of course, this reason can never be said, even to my cousin.

As soon as Zhou Lixin said, Gu Mojie himself felt that it was a little too imaginative, and quickly admitted his mistake: "I also have resources at hand, and some technical accumulation, I don't think it's a pity - don't ask me where I got the technical accumulation, just as I recruited a few programmers who jumped from P-map software or player software companies, and they stole a lot of source code from my peers when they came." ”

Zhou Lixin took a sip of low-alcohol fruit wine, and didn't see Gu Mojie, patted him on the shoulder and said:

"You can't say what you can do, just do it, you have to make trade-offs. Even if there are resources, if they are wasted, they are wasted, so what! Is there a good profit model for music players? If you just want to earn users and increase the appearance rate of your other products, isn't it enough to have an input method? What you need to do now is to increase user stickiness.

Otherwise,You make a player again,And last year just when you just got the input method the same,Millions and millions of dollars to burn advertising money? Losing money to make money and expand the number of users? Don't say that you have a family property of 20 or 30 million, even if it is 200 million or 300 million, it is not enough to burn like this. ”

Gu Mojie didn't intend to insist, but just explained, Zhou Lixin said so reasonably, he naturally accepted it immediately, and followed the other party's words.

"Brother, I also feel the situation you said. When I think of developing a new product, I have to spend a lot of advertising money, and I don't feel happy. If there is a thing,You can 'port' the current company's users,It's best to use our input method users,In the future, it will also give priority to the use of other software of the company,That's great。 ”

Zhou Lixin was quite relieved to see that Gu Mojie was still enlightened: "Shine on!" Explain that you are a person who understands. Now that you know, why not work in this direction? ”

"It's not like you can't find a good platform product. I also read it.,If you want to say that user stickiness is the best in China, and the cross-infection of all kinds of users is the strongest,It should be Tengxun's QQ.。 Space, music, mini games, several applications can be bundled to QQ. There is no need for Fuji Xun to spend advertising money to promote new products. ”

QQ in 04 is quite kind, and even the QQ game lobby has not been able to achieve a seckill of the winger, Rao is so, the platform stickiness shown by QQ has also made the bigwigs in the Internet circle greedy. When Gu Mojie and Zhou Lixin talked about the problem of user stickiness, the first thing that came to mind was naturally to use this example as an analogy.

Pity. There is already a QQ, Gu Mojie can only find another way, he and Zhou Lixin found the main indicator of user stickiness, and discussed fiercely for a long time, while discussing and inquiring about the industry dynamics on the Internet.

In the end, Gu Mojie put forward an idea.

"Not as well. Let's make a computer installation assistant similar to the 'optimization master', but it has more functions than the 'optimization master', focusing on the software classification download, driver automatic update, and then put the software we want to do in the future one by one, sell and boast, no matter what software you do in the future, you can save a lot of money on the promotion cost. ”

Gu Mojie's idea is actually a later 360 software housekeeper, driver assistant and the like. Of course, later generations of QQ and Baidu also followed up with this thing. In fact, the function is similar, it is nothing more than a competition for the dominance of the software recommendation position.

Gu Mojie didn't know about the later historical development, but his judgment was still not groundless.

There was no 360 in 04, but there was a "master of optimization" - that is, the predecessor of the later "Master Lu". Lu Jin, the author of these two software, has already launched the "Optimization Master" in 2001. It's just that now this software can only release the computer memory leak and optimize the driver, and the function is relatively simple. Not as fancy as later generations.

The reason why Optimizer has not made software classification download recommendations is because of the birth of Optimizer. The Internet speed in China is generally still very slow, and most netizens are still stuck in the era of buying pirated disks and installing large-scale software. Therefore, the purpose of the definition of Optimizer is mainly for users to use the software to optimize system performance in an offline environment.

Most people in the industry can see this, but they don't think about it deeply. Zhou Lixin can naturally see it. He immediately reminded Gu Mojie:

"Optimizer doesn't do software classification downloads, and his driver search is also based on the local downloaded driver library, which is not an efficient network search. If you want to learn from the optimization master and make more features, you have to make up for the shortcomings of the download tool. Otherwise, it's all empty talk.

Are you going to work with the Internet Express? With Hou Yantang's worth, he may not be able to look down on you in the short term, unless your new software installation is large enough, maybe he will talk to you. But if you can't do the classification download function in the first place, where will the installed base come from? ”

Gu Mojie was silent for a while, as if he was thinking about the problem of downloading tools.

If you want to build your own software circle and platform, this problem cannot be bypassed, either find someone to cooperate with, or write one yourself.

Finally, he made up his mind.

"I think that if you write a download software, it is estimated that you can get it by a few million. It's not that no one in China is robbing the Internet Express business, but they can't grab it. But the product we want to get is a new type of cross-circle, which can neither be regarded as a competitor of the optimization master, nor a competitor of the Internet Express. We're a composite of them, and I don't think those big guys will think of blocking us in the first place, maybe this way will come out. ”

The safest way to rise in the world is not to let any existing giants think that you are his peers. If you can dress yourself up as a four-like, and no one thinks you're his peers, and no one thinks you're in danger, then maybe you can grow into a behemoth and only be noticed by the enemy.

Besides, what does Gu Mojie do? Isn't it just a "network game" that traditional software companies think of as "stand-alone games"?

Input method, before the emergence of Gu Mojie, was a stand-alone application, but Gu Mojie turned the input method into a kind of need to be used on the Internet, and constantly self-evolving existence. Translation Word Tyrant was also considered a stand-alone application before, but after Gu Mo excelled, it has now become a web application.

In that case, why not when he extends his third poisonous hand to the "optimization master" and turns the "optimization master" into a network application?

From the point to the surface, from the surface to the point. Turn the advertising value of one of its software into the advertising value of the brand itself to form brand stickiness. This is a key step, and Gu Mojie is ready to bet on the new "Optimization Master".

Of course, the name Optimizer is already in use, so naturally it cannot be repeated. Gu Mojie discussed with Zhou Lixin and came up with a name for the future platform software.

"Let's call it 'Hatsune Computer Manager.'" (To be continued.) )