Time Travel: 2014

Although Lin Hui had the idea of ​​developing some new applications, there was no feasible idea in his mind at this time.

Not only Lin Hui, but many programmers are in almost the same situation.

I have a bunch of programming skills in vain, but there is no inspiration that can burst out anytime and anywhere.

Occasionally, some fanciful ideas often fail to be implemented because of low feasibility.

And programmers themselves don’t want to be creative, that’s usually the job of product managers.

But to be honest, product managers are not very capable. . .

What would Lin Hui do if he encountered this situation in his previous life?

Naturally, go to GitHub to find some inspiration!

The so-called GitHub is a hosting platform for open source and private software projects. Because it only supports Git as the only version library format for hosting, it is named GitHub.

Simply put, GitHub is a source code version management tool.

In fact, many companies' codes are now hosted on GitHub. The advantage of this is that they can work anywhere with an Internet connection.

In later generations, GitHub's official website was once the world's largest social programming and code hosting website.

In the IT world, or anyone who works in a job related to software programming, you probably know the name GitHub.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is an artifact in the programmer world.

But now it seems that the situation is a little troublesome.

Lin Hui searched "GitHub" on Google and found that the official website was not found.

what's the situation?

It shouldn't be. According to Lin Hui's memory, GitHub should have existed as early as 2008.

However, I think of the developer incentive program that appeared inexplicably in the AppStore before.

Lin Hui panicked unconsciously. Could it be that something a little different had happened in this world? What if there was no GitHub?

If Ahri is gone, Lin Hui might jump with excitement, but GitHub might as well forget about it.

Well, to put it in layman's terms, what's the difference between a programmer without GitHub and an lsp without a website?

The emergence of αapple’s developer incentive program may be said to be an accident.

If GitHub disappears, wouldn’t there be too many variables in the world?

In that case, Lin Hui was not sure whether the information he knew would still be of such great value!

Fortunately, after a long keyword search, Lin Hui discovered that the timeline that GitHub experienced in this world was basically the same as that in the original world.

It was still April 10, 2008, when GitHub was officially launched.

Still on January 23 this year (2014), co-founder Tom Preston-Werner took over the position of president from another co-founder Chris Wanstrath...

But the difference is that in this world, at the end of January this year, GitHub inexplicably suffered a large-scale DNS hijacking incident.

Although it is unclear how much impact this incident will have on GitHub.

But then GitHub unilaterally announced that it would conduct a comprehensive security upgrade, and the website was temporarily suspended for a period of time.

It actually takes a while to run?!

Lin Hui was speechless.

How can I happily find inspiration if I don’t have the ideas of a big boss for reference?

No good ideas emerged, and Lin Hui stopped thinking about developing software for the time being.

After all, it's late at night, and sleeping is life-threatening.

…

By the time Lin Hui got up, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning on the 11th.

The first thing Lin Hui did was log into his personal developer account on the App Store to check the data.

Today’s expected effective downloads are around 700,000.

Not even half as good as the first day.

It is not incomprehensible that this situation occurs.

After all, those who are really interested in the game "Life Restart Simulator" and have the desire to buy it will basically get on board on the first day.

Nowadays, most of these downloads are "coerced" by the topics of people around them and the media and public opinions.

Over time, this "coerced" download volume will become less and less as the popularity of the game declines.

In addition, the game itself of Life Restart Simulator is easy to get bored of...

In another three or four days, it would be considered good if the daily effective downloads of this game can barely maintain four figures.

But it doesn't matter, Lin Hui's goal of making the first pot of gold by using this small game has been achieved.

And even if the number of downloads today is only 700,000, it can still bring an income of at least 2.8 million to Lin Hui.

Although the speed of making money is still incomparable to that of big guys in finance.

But it's not too slow, at least it didn't embarrass the reborn person.

As for the money he earned, Lin Hui didn't plan to tell his parents yet.

It's not that he doesn't trust his parents, it's mainly that Lin Hui's wealth is still in a state of change.

It’s not too late to wait until your income is more or less stable.

As for how to spend the money in the future, Lin Hui only has vague directions for the time being and no clear plan.

But it is necessary to buy a house first.

Although families like Lin Hui will not be short of housing in the future, what their elders give them and what they earn are two different things.

And men, who hasn’t fantasized about having a “secret base” or something like that?

What's more, Lin Hui really has a secret at this time!

A "secret base" is urgently needed.

…

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, I was sitting in the living room of a villa in Mingpin International.

Lin Hui has an unreal feeling? This house is mine now?

The handover procedures were not too complicated. Basically, Lin Hui was only responsible for swiping the card and signing various signatures.

Speaking of which, Lin Hui originally just wanted to buy an ordinary residential building.

But at this time, even the latest real estate developed by a well-known domestic real estate company gave Lin Hui the feeling that the design was outdated and backward by five or six years.

In this case, it would be better to just buy the villa directly. Lin Hui is not short of money anyway.

And there is a story to compare with later generations.

Even for villas, the price at this time is not even as expensive as residential buildings in later generations.

440 square meters of finely decorated villa with a garden outside.

Lin Hui only spent 2.62 million to get it done.

Although from the current perspective, the location here is a bit far from the city center.

But Lin Hui knew that with the implementation of a series of layouts in the city, not only was this place no longer remote, but it had become the villa area closest to the core of the new business district.

Lin Hui remembers that in 2021, the price of Mingpin International Phase II, not far from Lin Hui's current villa, even rose to 22,391 yuan/㎡.

In other words, in future generations, Lin Hui will need around 9.85 million to buy such a villa.

In this case, it is not an exaggeration to say that you will make money if you buy it.

What's more, the layout of this villa is very reasonable, and the decoration style is to Lin Hui's liking.

But nevertheless.

That night, Lin Hui returned to his original residence.

According to the custom of the place where Lin Hui is.

No matter how well-decorated or fully furnished a new house is, it must be vacant for a while before moving in.

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