My rebirth is different

Chapter 312

"In the past few years, although the domestic Internet has developed rapidly, the user experience is still too poor, just like you and Meng Qi want to know each other's recent situation, send a photo or something, it's so troublesome. But soon Yes, after I clear the stock, I will have money in my hands, and then I will start a project to solve similar user pain points.”

Yu Wenfei said with a smile.

"Huh? Do you want to start a project just to send photos? Is it too restrictive?" Wu Xiu asked in surprise.

"No! The convenience of posting photos is just one of the functions. What I want to do is a social networking site. How can this kind of site have limitations? I don't know how big the prospect is."

"Like QQ?" Wu Xiu asked again.

Yu Wenfei shook his head, "QQ is an instant messaging software on the Internet, and it has become popular..."

Speaking of this, Yu Wenfei suddenly thought of something, lost his mind slightly, and did not continue after speaking halfway.

"What's wrong with you?" Wu Xiu looked at Yu Wenfei sideways with concern and asked.

"Is there a charge for applying for a QQ number now?" Yu Wenfei asked a little excitedly as he sat up and grabbed Wu Xiu's arm.

Yu Wenfei found himself in a misunderstanding!
That is, in his dream memory, Tencent is too powerful, so powerful that no company in the entire Internet field can compete with it.

The strength of QQ and WeChat in Internet communication is beyond doubt, and there is no rival.

So when Yu Wenfei made his own business plan, he subconsciously avoided the field of instant messaging, because he felt that it was a thankless task.

There is no chance of winning at all to compete with Tencent, and a lot of money has to be spent in it.

But he just woke up now, it's only 2002 now!

Although QQ has begun to take shape, the number of users has also begun to grow explosively.

But at this stage, Xiao Ma and the others still made a lot of mistakes. In 2002, due to their own financial constraints, QQ launched a "paid registration system!" in order to limit the explosive growth of the number of users!

In other words, if you want to apply for a QQ number, you need to spend two yuan to apply for it.

It's weird, I'm afraid there are too many users, so I use fees to keep users out.

Ten years later, this is simply unbelievable.

But in the development of QQ, it did do that, and it did it for a whole year, in 2002!
Tencent actually has its own reasons for doing so.

Being an Internet company is really burning money.

The salaries of technicians are high, and servers and loans are gold-swallowing monsters!

However, there are very few traffic monetization models on the Internet.

Basically, at that time, the only revenue for Internet companies was to advertise their products.

Open the major portals and look around, advertising can account for half, as for user experience...

who cares!
At that time, there were not many choices for users, and the competition was not too fierce, so various Internet companies were also in a stage of "bad competition".

There is no worst, only worse.

If that company has a better reputation, don’t get me wrong, it’s not because it’s doing really well, but because it’s a foil to its peers.

Including QQ, it is an instant messaging software, and it also wants to advertise.

But a chat window is only that big, and there is no room for advertisements.

But even though "the conditions are so difficult", Xiao Ma still came up with a good idea. At that time, the QQ chat box was a very simple two windows separated by five and five.

The upper window is the chat content that has been sent, and the lower one is the input box.

Between these two windows, QQ added a banner for advertising...

Tencent was the first profitable Internet company in China, because it was "crazy" and "unscrupulous" at the time and tried every means to make money.

The year 2002 was also a major difficulty in Tencent's history, a year of mixed joy and sorrow.

The joy is of course the explosive growth in the number of users. Three years ago, it sold 30 pieces of broken software that no one wanted, and now it has tens of millions of users. It has basically become the overlord of domestic Internet communication software.

What is worrying is that because of the large number of users, the company's financial pressure is very high, and many charging policies have been introduced.

As a result, users are very dissatisfied with QQ, and major Internet companies in the market are also launching their own instant messaging software to compete with QQ for market share.

For example, Netease Bubble, UC, and even the internationally famous MSN have begun to enter the mainland.

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It was only after thinking of these things that Yu Wenfei suddenly realized that he still had the opportunity to intervene in the instant messaging software.

Originally, he wanted to avoid this area. QQ is a typical strong social software, and Yu Wenfei plans to make weak social software, which is also an industry with a very bright future.

Social can be divided into "strong social" and "weak social".

Such as QQ, WeChat, and MSN are typical strong social interactions. Basically, the friends in them are all friends they know in real life, and the connection is very close.

But things like Weibo, Facebook, and Twitter are weakly social.

Of course, Facebook is quite special. It started with strong social interaction. At the beginning, the users who followed each other on Facebook were all students from the same school in real life.After the development, it became mainly weak social, which can be regarded as mixed.

On Weibo and Facebook, if you are a bit famous, the number of people who follow you and interact with you may reach hundreds of thousands, millions, or even more.

This kind of social relationship is weak sociality.

There is no distinction between the two. If you have to compare them, strong social interaction is more stable, while weak social interaction is more influential. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

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"I don't know either. I applied for my QQ number when I was in high school, and there was no charge back then." Wu Xiu looked bewildered.

Yu Wenfei got up, put on some clothes casually, and brought the laptop over.

Turn on the computer and log in to the Internet.

Click on the little penguin icon on the computer screen to open the QQ login interface.

When applying for a new number, a prompt pops up, "Please register through the short line, and each short line will charge 2 yuan."

Sure enough, there is a fee for registering a QQ number now!

Seeing this, Yu Wenfei had an idea in his mind that he needed to make a little change to his original plan.

Strong social software, if it is done, it will be an enduring core competitiveness and irreplaceable!
So now that he sees a relatively large possibility, Yu Wenfei is also moved.

For social software, like QQ, the technical content of the software itself is not high, especially the version in 2002, which can be said to be very easy to do.

At the beginning, Xiao Ma gathered a few classmates from Shenzhen University, plus a few technicians, and made QQ in order to bid for the communication software bidding of Pengcheng Telecom. One can imagine how easy it is.

Later, the bidding failed, and the software could not be sold, so Xiao Ma had no choice but to operate it by himself, and only then did the Tencent Empire come into being.

(End of this chapter)