To become the richest man from the beginning of the game

Chapter 703 "Useful APP" starts (ask for a monthly pass!)

Tuesday, October 10th.

Handong University Family Campus.

Yu Pingan got off the taxi, took out his mobile phone and glanced at the specific address and house number.

Today he is going to pay a visit to Kong Zhemin, a highly respected old professor in the Department of Literature of Handong University.

Professor Kong Zhemin, born in 1946, is a first-class professor of humanities and social sciences and a doctoral supervisor at Handong University. Editor, convener of expert group for revision of Chinese curriculum standards, etc.

In short, he is a well-deserved master in the Faculty of Liberal Arts of Handong University, and even in the entire domestic academic circle.

As a wealthy company executive, Yu Pingan has seen a lot, so there is nothing to be nervous about.

But meeting a real master like Professor Kong Zhemin is completely different.

Before going upstairs, Yu Pingan calmed down and carefully reviewed the preparations for the "Useful APP".

He came here today to invite Professor Kong out of the mountain, but it was not that easy.

After receiving the "useful APP" development task from Mr. Pei last time, Yu Pingan immediately started to re-plan the business of the entire department and optimize the personnel structure.

Some people continue to develop and improve the various functions of Tenda Life APP, while others are drawn out to form a "useful APP" research and development team.

When receiving President Pei's mission, Yu Ping'an was at a loss.

Because in his opinion, the development cycle of "useful APP" is too long and it is extremely difficult to make a profit. It is really not a very good project.

However, he still strictly implemented Mr. Pei's request and started preparations seriously.

Because Yu Ping'an is very clear that President Pei emphasizes one thing in software, and that is "iteration"!

It can be seen from the development history of its own department. From "Xueba Come" to "Tengda Life", this APP has been revised several times, the content has been continuously adjusted, and the user group it faces has also undergone tremendous changes.

It can be said that without the "iteration" Mr. Pei has been promoting, the current success of "Tengda Life APP" would not be possible!

Therefore, the new project "Useful APP" that Mr. Pei is going to do, even if it seems unreliable now, with repeated iterations in the future, it will always meet Mr. Pei's expectations and achieve great success.

Regarding this point, Yu Ping'an was convinced.

It's just that in the process of developing the "useful APP", Yu Pingan encountered more problems than he could have imagined.

Mr. Pei has given the basic structure framework of this APP: it is a content output platform, which should be a tree structure.

The trunk part is somewhat similar to an encyclopedia website: the root of the tree is each keyword and basic concept, the branch is the concept and explanation derived from this keyword, and the leaf is the question and answer for a specific derived concept.

The structure of the entire APP is like a forest of trees: the key basic concepts are related to each other, and they support jumping between entries, or in a large category (such as literature, physics, games, etc.) Search by category.

In other words, grafting the encyclopedia mode and the question-and-answer mode is only a small innovation in form, but it can greatly improve the efficiency of users in obtaining information.

However, in order to realize the infrastructure framework Mr. Pei needs, it still takes a lot of time and energy to work together on details and content.

For example, how to design each sub-interface of the APP, how to arrange the page layout so that users can see key information at a glance, how to allow managers to freely add and delete entries or modify the entire tree structure...

These are the key issues that product managers need to worry about.

In addition, it is the issue of content production on "useful APP".

Since "useful APP" is a content production platform, whether it can be popular or not depends on whether the above content is good or not.

Specifically, it is nothing more than three points:

Whether the content is accurate and there can be no wrong information;

Whether the content is concise and free of spam;

Whether the index is convenient and whether you can quickly find the content you want to check.

In the final analysis, it still depends on people.

If the content producers on the platform deliberately release wrong information and spam to defraud traffic, then the platform will definitely not succeed.

Even if it is to be supervised, it can only use excellent producers to supervise not so good producers.

If some professional concepts are involved, it is necessary to let a professional boss come forward to accurately determine whether it is correct information, wrong information or spam information.

So, where do you find these great producers?

The first thing Yu Pingan thought of was colleges and universities.

It is of course possible to invite big names in various industries. For example, when it comes to issues related to the Internet industry, invite some senior executives of Internet giants. These people must also have real talents.

But the problem is that these bigwigs are all successful people. They have to be busy with their own jobs and careers, so they don't necessarily have time to do these trivial things.

Moreover, there is a big difference between mastering knowledge and explaining knowledge.

"Useful APP" is more like a platform for explaining knowledge. The encyclopedia model has been developed to the extreme, and it is actually a textbook.The questions related to the encyclopedia entries are actually the detailed explanations of the textbooks.

Therefore, postgraduates, young lecturers, professors, etc. in colleges and universities are the most suitable candidates and the backbone of this APP.

Big cows in various industries can only be used as supplements.

And "useful APP" is all-encompassing, so where should we start the work like a foolish old man moving mountains?

The first thing Yu Pingan thought of was some basic knowledge.

Mr. Pei said that "Useful APP" is a long-term plan, and some ambiguous problems would rather not be done than to make mistakes.

Start with a certain field of basic knowledge, do a little bit, try the water, if the effect is good, then spread to more fields, and expand step by step.

Do not seek quantity, only seek quality, in order to ensure that this APP is truly worthy of its name.

Therefore, Yu Pingan found the officials of Handong University and visited Professor Kong.

Handong University, especially the Faculty of Liberal Arts, is quite supportive of this cooperation.In fact, school-enterprise cooperation has always been strongly supported and advocated by the state. It is nothing new for many science schools to conduct joint research with enterprises.

However, because of the particularity of their majors, the School of Liberal Arts rarely cooperates with enterprises. If the "Useful APP" can be successful this time, it will be a win-win attempt.

What's more, Tengda Group is based in Jingzhou, and President Pei has donated money to his alma mater five times and three times. With this relationship, it will be much easier to talk about cooperation.

The only problem is that the college cannot make decisions for Professor Kong Zhemin.

Because Professor Kong has to lead graduate students, teach undergraduates, and do research, whether the old man has the time and energy to join this project as a special consultant is a question mark.

Therefore, if Yu Pingan wanted to move Professor Kong's great Buddha today, he had to use all his strength.

After calming down, Yu Pingan entered the family building and knocked on the door gently on the second floor.

After a while, the anti-theft door opened, and an old professor with gray hair and hale and heart looked Yu Pingan up and down: "Mr. Yu, right?"

Yu Pingan hurriedly said, "Old Kong, you can call me Xiaoyu, I'm sorry to bother you."

Professor Kong Zhemin smiled: "Don't disturb, don't disturb, please come in."

Yu Pingan followed Professor Kong Zhemin into the living room. The situation here was similar to what he had imagined. The sofas and furniture were basically made of wood, which looked very old-fashioned. There were calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, and the entire wall was full of bookshelves. Full of various books.

Professor Kong Zhemin also poured Yu Pingan a cup of tea, and Yu Pingan was a little panicked.

After chatting for a few words, Yu Pingan didn't dare to delay Professor Kong's time, and got straight to the point: "Mr. Kong, the reason for my visit, the leader of the Faculty of Arts should have already told you briefly, and I will tell you in detail. Let me introduce the specific content of our app."

"I was originally in charge of the Tenda Life APP business at Tenda Group, and now I am in charge of this 'useful APP'. I just want to build a knowledge sharing community that combines the 'encyclopedia' and 'question and answer' modes..."

Professor Kong Zhemin listened carefully, nodding from time to time, occasionally doubts flashed in his eyes, but he did not interrupt Yu Pingan's narration, but waited for Yu Pingan to explain the starting point, specific structure, charging mode, incentive mode, etc. of the entire "useful APP". After telling all the content, I started to integrate all the information and think carefully.

After thinking for a while, Professor Kong Zhemin said: "Mr. Yu, from your description, this software seems to be similar in positioning to HowNet, which searches academic literature and academic papers. What is the specific difference between the two?"

Yu Pingan immediately replied: "Of course there is a big difference."

"In layman's terms, the people we are targeting are completely different, and the goals we want to achieve are also different."

"Academic papers and academic literature, including teaching materials for various courses in universities, are of course the most essential and cutting-edge knowledge, but to read, understand, and master these contents actually requires a high threshold."

"For most ordinary people, even if they are asked to read this knowledge, they will not be able to understand it."

"If science popularization is the goal, this efficiency must be very low."

"So, the software we are making is mainly aimed at the general public, and we are committed to popularizing professional knowledge in these areas to them in a relatively easy-to-understand way."

"What we are doing is to understand professional content with a lower cost, and we are more inclined to let users 'understand' rather than 'fully master'."

"And the biggest difference between this software and the question-and-answer platform is that the knowledge on it has been screened, and we will try our best to avoid spam. At the same time, we have a more advanced indexing mechanism, which greatly improves the efficiency of knowledge acquisition."

　Many people are concerned about the rhythm of the recent website. Let me briefly say this, don’t eat melons before they are ripe, and there is no need to discuss too much false information.My contract will expire in two or three years, so I won’t be affected in any way within two or three years. I will continue to serialize and update normally, and try to write long and well-written stories. Don’t scare yourself.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)