What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 242 Comparison
WeChat has started internal testing, which means the company's marketing actions are about to begin.

Yu Xing tried the Symbian version, Android version and iOS version of WeChat successively, and communicated with technical director Ge Zhijie, secretary Lin Lingling and others in text format for three consecutive days.

Then I realized that the beta version really needs more testing.

For example, the Symbian version would occasionally run slowly or even freeze. It was explained that this was because the memory and processing power of Nokia phones were relatively limited, so WeChat ran out of resources. The targeted solution was to continue to optimize the code and reduce memory usage.

The Android and iOS versions mostly have compatibility issues and require more time to debug.

But no matter what, an instant messaging software for mobile Internet scenarios was created from scratch, which made Yu Xing and the entire WeChat company very excited.

In just one week, the office atmosphere in WeChat company has completely changed. When people encounter problems, they no longer call for help or look up to find someone, but directly take out WeChat to chat.

Also because of this kind of usage, the group chat function was quickly launched in the internal beta version 1.1, which subsequently changed everyone's office habits.

Create a group, create a group, create a group whether you have something to do or not.

Once a group is created, specific usage issues will arise. If there are too many group chats, many messages will pop up. Should a related blocking function be implemented? How to set the logic for disbanding the chat group? How to remind the people invited to the group?

Although there is reference to mobile QQ, these detailed issues will together form the appearance of a brand new communication software.

Yu Xing did not force his familiarity with WeChat, because what he was familiar with was the experience of having perfect hardware and system. He only made the ultimate requirement - simplicity.

Is this function that needs to be added really a necessity?

If not, then don't add it.

Does the setting that needs to be changed conform to the "simple" experience?

If it does not match, then make changes in the direction that matches.

As for why simplicity must be the first principle...

Yu Xing held meetings with the technical director, deputy director and five team leaders to discuss his ideas. First, it must conform to the lightweight scenarios of mobile Internet, and second, it must be a more vertical user experience.

It doesn't need to be fancy, just make the communication function particularly distinct.

August 5th, Sunday morning.

Yu Xing was thinking about the situation in the president's office while smoking and looking through the materials.

After a while, Zhong Zhiling knocked on the door and walked in.

As soon as he entered the door, he couldn't help but say, "Brother Xing, have you been smoking a lot recently?"

"Are there any? Open the window." Yu Xing instructed first, then handed over a cigarette, "Give me one."

Zhong Zhiling shook his head and lit a cigarette, advising: "It's written on the cigarette box that smoking is harmful to your health."

Yu Xing laughed and asked directly, "How is it? I let you use WeChat for two days. How do you feel about it?"

Zhong Zhiling uses the Android version of WeChat and has been an ordinary user these past two days.

He thought for a moment and replied, "Not bad, but it seems to be just good. Well, I don't care much about the cost of text messages when I use my mobile phone now, so, well, my evaluation is that it is not bad."

Yu Xing analyzed his words and said, "It's okay to use it, but it's also okay not to use it, right?"

Zhong Zhiling decided to be more tactful: "For me, it may be like this. If you ask me not to take it too seriously, I may use it more casually."

"It's normal to be casual." Yu Xing was not angry about such a small matter, and thought, "People who use WeChat for the first time will have a similar mentality."

The two of them smoked and the office fell into silence.

After a while, Yu Xing discussed: "I plan to keep WeChat's early users among college students. What do you think?"

Zhong Zhiling only thought for two seconds before reminding him, "Brother Xing, summer vacation is almost here."

Summer vacation is coming soon, which means there will be few opportunities for face-to-face sales.

Based on our previous experience with Guiai.com, this would be the low point in our entry into the college student market.

Once face-to-face communication is no longer possible, persuasiveness and trust will be greatly reduced.

"That's a problem." Yu Xing considered, "However, this is not like when we made a love contract. That required money and the trust required was completely different. WeChat is now free software and can help them save money. If we can find a good entry point, I think we will have a chance to get a group of initial users even during the summer vacation."

Zhong Zhiling put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, walked to the window, and helped think about the situation.

After a long while, he said, "If WeChat is available now, I think we should make good use of the last half month before summer vacation. This is a matter of promotion and also an opportunity for promotion. Once the vacation starts, the need for remote communication will become more prominent. However, whether it is a club, class or dormitory, these college students must have established QQ groups, and their needs can be met."

Yu Xing pondered: "How to get users to switch software, this is a problem."

He couldn't help but take out another cigarette and slowly ponder the situation inside.

After a moment, Yu Xing said, "For the campus community, do you think it would be more efficient to start from the needs of fashion/small circles/saving money?"

"How do you say fashionable?" Zhong Zhiling asked.

Yu Xing pondered, "Just like what I told you last time, QQ has a long history, but it is too old. Once something gets old, it is no longer fashionable. Only new things have the characteristic of being fashionable."

"For example... find people to promote on the campus BBS. Who still uses QQ? Now everyone uses WeChat." Zhong Zhiling thought for a moment and said, "We can recruit part-time promoters on each campus. We don't need to focus on offline promotion. We can focus on online promotion first, including Renren.com... I think, since it's an internal test, we should focus on collecting problems and making improvements at the beginning."

Seeing that his senior didn't say anything, he continued, "If we can get off to a good start, we can let them use the new software to communicate with their parents when school starts. Then we can push and pull new feedback. As long as we pull in new people, we can get points or small gifts."

Seeing that his senior brother still didn't move, Zhong Zhiling quickly made a patch: "Brother Xing, I'm just chatting, you can just listen, after all, I haven't studied the product carefully."

"No, I'm thinking that we really can't be impatient." Yu Xing shook his head and said seriously, "The internal test is mainly to collect problems and make improvements. We really can't think of rushing into it all at the beginning."

He added: "WeChat wants to be a social network for acquaintances. In fact, it can come up with more good features, but it really needs to be steady and solid."

Yu Xing vaguely knew that products like WeChat grew rapidly after the voice function came into being. In addition, the Drift Bottle and Shake function also made it particularly popular.

WeChat has just been launched, so we can’t rush to unveil all its features. We should first let college students help give feedback on the product.

"If the functions are really good, we can replicate our previous experience when school starts in the fall," Zhong Zhiling said, "but these functions... must have their own characteristics."

It is not complicated to replicate the experience, it is nothing more than paying money to find people, but it is more difficult to have unique and practical functions. Yu Xing just said "hmm" to this, thinking about the investment and progress in his mind.

After a moment, he reflected again: "Don't rush things. The more anxious you are, the easier it is to make mistakes."

Zhong Zhiling heard this and persuaded him: "Brother Xing, the main reason is that the pressure from potential competitors is too great, which inevitably makes people impatient."

"Okay, I won't say any more. I still have to continue trying it out." Yu Xing put away the urge to smoke another cigarette, stretched his waist, and said with a smile, "You have a day off today, why don't you go out for a walk?"

"Xiaoying and I have an appointment for dinner, but there's no rush." ​​Zhong Zhiling said casually, "Brother Xing, have you seen another company that was shorted by Guo Shanfeng recently?"

Yu Xing remained calm: "Do you think I saw it?"

As expected, the information-sharing short selling method that goes beyond the mountain peak has become the focus of discussion at the Bai Xiaosheng Forum.

In addition to the fact that this move was different from previous ones, Chen Deyuan's support and his reaction were funny, and the sudden loss of contact with the CEO of the company in question also caused a lot of discussion.

By now, everyone has completely confirmed that Li Hanchun had indeed run away.

He was not arrested. After many inquiries, there was no information about him being arrested at all.

On the contrary, as the possibility of his escape became more and more real, more inside stories of China Forest were exposed.

Although it was Guo Shanfeng who made the move, everyone couldn't find Guo Shanfeng to expose the inside story, so they naturally came to the influential workplace platform Bai Xiaosheng.

Yu Xing was surprised by this change in the situation, and what surprised him even more was that the inside story revealed by Hua Xia Forest was completely beyond his imagination.

——It is said that China Forestry committed serious financial fraud for two consecutive years in 2008 and 2009.

How serious is it?
It is so serious that more than 90% of the revenue is fake!
Such a large proportion of fraud has been committed for two consecutive years, and this is a company that has just gone public...

If this news is true, it is no wonder that the CEO disappeared quickly after being named by short sellers on the first day. The scam is too easy to be exposed!

"Brother Xing, many people on the forum are calling on you to issue another hunt order to see if you can find Li Hanchun's whereabouts." Zhong Zhiling said with a smile.

Yu Xing shook his head: "They are just looking for fun and don't mind making trouble. Once, twice, three times, if anyone comes to ask me this every time they encounter this kind of problem in the future, we won't have to open our website anymore."

Zhong Zhiling chuckled and thought it was fun.

At this time, a call came from Lu Haiying.

Zhong Zhiling received a call and was about to go shopping with his wife. Before leaving the office, he sighed, "If a company with 9% of its revenue faked can still go public, then we can definitely go public too."

"Go quickly and think about the listing later. Maybe we will encounter Shanfeng who will short us right after the listing." Yu Xing said.

"Our data is very real, and we are not afraid of being investigated." Zhong Zhiling said with a smile, "Well, not necessarily. Short sellers are all bad people."

Yu Xing did not raise any objections and watched Zhong Zhiling leave.

He thought about it and sent a WeChat message to Xiaoying: The CEO ran away, 9% of the revenue was fake, have you thought about it?

Liu Wanying was one of the first trial users of the software, so she would reply readily: I never thought of it.

Yu Xing: You can’t even imagine it, wow.

Liu Wanying did not reply. She was really surprised at the effect of this wave of alarming the enemy. Although there was no solid evidence, Huaxia Forest had committed too many frauds and the top management was very guilty. Moreover, they encountered three successful short selling attempts and they directly evacuated physically.

China Forest Holdings, which was listed just half a year ago, has been temporarily suspended by the exchange after a 90% drop.

There is no doubt that this forestry company, which once claimed to be among the top three in domestic business, has completely lost its value.

It is a pity that these are all observations after the fact. No one could have imagined such a bizarre collapse beforehand. Therefore, this time it only added less than 300 million US dollars of operating chips to WeChat.

Yu Xing didn't know whether the additional money was enough to support the temporary competition with Penguin, but he was desperately trying to recall whether there were any listed companies that were also suitable for short selling.

If you don’t have money, you can only beg for alms.

Two days later, Yu Xing sent the beta version 1.2 of WeChat software to Liu Jiankai, vice president of Today Capital.

"What? This is the software you made? Mr. Yu, so fast?" Liu Jiankai was very surprised after receiving the call. Although it was very fast from the beginning, he was still shocked to see the software installation package today.

"Is it fast? It's almost June. We started in March and it's been three months now. I think it's a bit slow." Yu Xing said seriously, "Try it and see how it works."

Liu Jiankai quickly said, "Okay, okay, I will definitely try the instant messaging software from WeChat. Oh, it would be a shame for your efforts if I don't read it formally like this."

The phone he used was still a Nokia, so the version he tried was the Symbian system.

So use...

My first impression was that the software was small, weighing less than 2M. My second impression was that... the software was a bit crude.

Liu Jiankai subconsciously compared WeChat with QQ, because he was used to the fancy settings of the QQ page. Now he felt that WeChat, which did not have so many buttons, was a bit strange, as if something was missing.

He quickly added Yu Xing as a friend and sent him a greeting message: Hello, Mr. Yu, congratulations on the launch of the product.

Yu Xing replied: It’s just an internal test, Mr. Liu can give us more suggestions.

Liu Jiankai decided to give a serious review. However, WeChat, with its simple functions, has nothing good to review. It just sends messages, receives messages, sends and receives messages again...

He used it silently for two days, and for a moment he didn't know how to describe the experience.

When Liu Jiankai put WeChat aside and decided to think about how to evaluate it, he went back to using QQ on his mobile phone and suddenly found that messaging with friends seemed not as smooth as with WeChat.

After half a day, the system is not smooth enough, stuck, and messages are swallowed...

Liu Jiankai was unable to comment on WeChat, but instead wrote down his evaluation of QQ in a notebook, and then fell into deep confusion.

Hey, why didn’t I have this feeling before?

Who touched my QQ?

(End of this chapter)