Chapter 3: First Products

In the following period, the initial members of the start-up company XlouS were only Ren Hong and his roommates in the dormitory, adding up to only six people, which was just enough.

Except for individual leaders of the school, the students in the school did not know that a company was founded by the students of the school, Ren Hong and they were very low-key and did not hype anything, and the school was only limited to internal transmission.

And just like that, XlouS is on the right track.

The first thing Ren Hong and others had to do was to renovate the layout of classroom 317 to make it more like an office, and after a brief transformation of the six people, Ren Hong purchased ten computers, as well as three printers and related necessities and other necessary hardware facilities.

After three days of setting everything up, the company was officially opened.

This afternoon, six people gathered in room 317.

"The hardware facilities are preliminarily completed, and now let me tell you what kind of products our company is going to launch." Ren Hong stood on the podium, looking at the five roommates, at this moment, he only had confidence and expectation in his eyes, because he was finally about to launch his first product to the world.

"Let me tell you about the company's first product." Ren Hong said and turned on the original projector in the room, and the six big characters were eye-catching.

"Instant online translation?" Zhang Han looked at him suspiciously, not only him, but the other four people were also puzzled, although they were puzzled, everyone also quietly listened to the introduction of the confident boss on the stage. The five roommates were surprised, originally thinking that Ren Hong was an introverted academic bully, but at this moment, Ren Hong's confident smile and powerful voice on the stage completely subverted their original perception of him.

"Our first app product, which I named 'Instant Online Translation', is available for Android, iOS and PC, and has been basically developed." Ren Hong introduced one by one: "You may have also discovered that this is a translation software, and I want to say that our first product is indeed a translation software." Speaking of which, you may have a question in your mind. Ren Hong looked at everyone, as expected, but he was still full of confidence, and continued: "Your question may be, in the face of excellent translation software such as Google Translate and other excellent translation software on the market, can our products compete? ”

Everyone nodded slightly, indeed. Ren continued: "Whether it is against Google Translate, Baidu Translate or Youdao Dictionary, the parent company behind it is a behemoth, and its competitors themselves are very good, so if we choose to compete with them, it seems that there is no chance of winning. Indeed, there is no chance of winning. However, Ren Hong's turn of words aggravated his tone, he looked at the crowd and said, "Instant online translation doesn't need to compete with them, and there are no competitors!" ”

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone obviously couldn't understand it, who would they not compete with these opponents? Or is our product better than that?

"Why don't we have to compete with them? Look at the big screen. Ren Hong pointed to the projection white cloth screen on the side, on the interface, everyone quietly watched Ren Hong's operation, he first started the real-time online translation and let it run in the background, and then logged in to the Facebook (Facebook) account, and then began to browse the circle of friends, his account has friends from all over the world, after a while, he stopped the operation, and looked at everyone again, "Have you found anything?" ”

Seeing that the six people didn't react much, he continued to control the computer, and then logged on to another social networking app, Instagram, and went through the pictures and accompanying comments on the users. Then he went on Twitter, and then he went to several foreign websites.

"it!"

Suddenly, Zhang Han, who was sitting below, suddenly roared, staring at the projection screen with wide eyes in surprise.

"Bastard, you scared me, ghost?" Chen Kai said very unhappily.

Zhang Han completely ignored the dissatisfaction expressed by the other party, he pointed to the projection screen and shouted excitedly: "Artifact!" It's an artifact! How do you do it? What kind of algorithm? ”

Ren Hong on the stage finally smiled when he saw Zhang Han's performance, obviously, he had seen it.

"Still don't understand?" Zhang Han looked at a few roommates who didn't see the mystery of it, looked at the screen again, and said excitedly: "Real-time online translation makes communication barriers a thing of the past!" Chen Kai: Do you know what this means? ”

"! Sure enough, it's an artifact! Zhou Hui finally reacted, and then, everyone reacted.

The people present were all proficient in English and were also using these social software, and they did not personally experience the problem of communication barriers, so they did not react for a while, until now they finally found out. This is an extremely powerful translation artifact,Just when Ren Hong operated Instagram to browse pictures,The accompanying comments are all Chinese characters,Whether it's English、German、Russian、Arabic、Japanese, etc.,All translated into Chinese characters,And InstagramUIInteri interface has not changed,It's just text。 Similarly, when Ren Hong logged on to Facebook, he logged in to websites with huge cultural differences and different countries and regions, the text displayed was all Chinese characters, and the UI interface of the website remained unchanged.

What does this mean? This means that a Chinese who does not know English at all can understand the content of foreign English websites, and what does this mean?

It's a translation artifact.

Ren Hong looked at everyone's shocked and excited mood, he smiled, and suddenly played a cameo role, saying, "Hey! My name is Elaine Lu, I am a 16 year old girl from Buenos Aires, one of the largest cities in South America, this is the first time I have used Instrgam to share my personal life, I am looking forward to making new friends from all over the world on this social platform, and I am looking forward to seeing new friends from all over the world sharing their local characteristics. ”

Ren Hong then said: "This sentence said by Elaine Lu was originally only understood by people who knew Spanish and writing, but with instant online translation, whether you are German, Chinese, American, Russian, as long as you see this message, you can know what Elenlu wants to express." ”

"How interesting!" Ren Hong always looked at a few shocked roommates with a faint smile, he continued: "Technology changes life, with the development of the Internet, and at the moment of mobile Internet, the trend of high sharing of information and globalization is unstoppable, relying on these social platforms, the eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere can communicate and interact face-to-face across time and space, relying on the Internet, we can see fast and convenient and can understand the information of the outside world anytime and anywhere." However, what always bothers us is that different regions, different languages, different cultures and different scripts form a natural barrier to human communication. ”

"But with the birth of Instant Online Translation, we can finally say goodbye to this trouble, and Instant Online Translation will perfectly solve this obstacle."

The more Ren Hong spoke, the more excited he became, and the more the five people below listened, the more excited they became.

"With Instant Online Translation, when an average user lands on Instagram, his circle is no longer limited to the region, but truly global. If the Instagram user is a German and he can't read comments or text messages in ancient Chinese, that's okay, Instant Translator can translate into German and browse it, or if an American who doesn't know Arabic is interested in Dubai, Instant Translator can translate Arabic into English, which he knows. ”

"Wait, wait, wait! With this app, users can browse any non-native language website will completely say goodbye to communication and communication barriers, log in to Facebook, log in to Twitter, log in to Instagarm, etc., no matter what country you are from, no matter which country you are communicating with, the language and text barriers you have when communicating and interacting with them are almost negligible. ”

"Instant online translation! Bringing the world closer together! Make communication more frequent! ”

Speaking of this, Ren Hong, who was always smiling, opened his hands and faced everyone.

(To be continued)