Reborn? The Kind You Can Choose!

In the ancient Greek legend, there is such a beautiful story: if you write your heart's desire on paper, put it in a transparent glass bottle, and then throw the bottle into the sea. The bottle carries the wish and floats into the distance. The more people see the bottle, the greater the possibility of the wish coming true.

Later, people called such a bottle containing good wishes a drift bottle.

Zhang Xiaolong liked this story very much, so in his previous life, he developed this drifting bottle application in his QQ mailbox.

This was just a small attempt on his part, but no one expected that this feature would become popular.

And it’s not just an ordinary thing, it’s so popular that countless people who don’t use QQ mailboxes have logged into QQ mailboxes and started throwing bottles every day.

Even Zhang Xiaolong himself did not actually expect that the use of drift bottles would suddenly bring QQ mailbox to a peak status.

At that time, this function only took half a month from project establishment to launch.

Users can have three opportunities a day to fish out drift bottles containing various information from the "ocean". While "picking up" messages from strangers, users can also respond and interact with each other if they wish.

After continuous improvement and iteration, the interface and functions of the QQ mailbox drifting bottle have become more and more perfect. The R&D team has successively launched the "catching bottle", "ordinary bottle", "confession bottle", "intercourse bottle" and "passing bottle". and a series of interesting features.

On the first day when this drifting bottle was launched in QQ mailbox, the number of letters sent to QQ mailbox exceeded 200,000; in just 3 days, the number of letters sent to QQ mailbox exceeded 1 million!

This extremely hot state was unexpected by Long himself.

Next, the number of drift bottles every day soared at an almost alarming rate, and the increase in user stickiness shocked the entire Penguin Group.

It only took 10 days!

10 days!

The daily sending volume of Drift Bottle exceeded 100 million times, directly sending QQ mailbox to the first place in the country, surpassing NetEase by 163, and it has not fallen since then.

This application has achieved unprecedented results and has been copied and imitated by countless product companies.

Even Penguin, QQ Space and later WeChat were all loaded with this function.

It is enough to show that the application of this drift bottle is awesome.

And this was Zhang Xiaolong's sudden inspiration.

In Yuan Zhou's previous life, Zhang Xiaolong actually created a lot of god-level functions like this, such as WeChat red envelopes, which directly knocked Alipay's payment off the pedestal; people near WeChat, shake, jump boxes, public accounts, etc., every When a function is launched, it will arouse the use and discussion of the entire society.

This is the sensitivity of a development master to the product.

However, in this life, Yuan Zhou had completely amputated it. The key was to cut off the beard. It was still in front of the original owner in the previous life, which completely shocked him.

"The drift bottle feature is our next major update to the mailbox!"

"I will only give you 3 days, including internal testing, and then I will release the update to Fmail 1.0!"

Yuan Zhou explained the functions of the drift bottle, and all the programmers in the audience were undoubtedly a little excited.

Zhang Xiaolong stood up even more excitedly, wishing he could lie down in front of the computer and start typing the code. He was confident that "this function can be implemented in ten nights."

"Don't worry, this is just the first updated feature of our Fmail mailbox!"

"The second one is the reading space. This will be connected to the school network. Some new news on the school network and logs posted by friends will be displayed on the right side of the mailbox interface!"

"And your favorite websites can be linked to this reading space without having to enter the URL again and again to view!"

“This is a function that increases user usage and stickiness!”

"The third one is the offline file forwarding and transfer station...

"The fourth one is to expand the capacity. Increase the email capacity of Fmail to 1G, and then continue to expand it at 100K per day..."

"The fifth one is mailbox skin reskin, exquisite stationery, colorful interface... Special features for Christmas, Spring Festival and other holidays!"

"Sixth, text and pictures are sent directly..."

"the seventh...……."

Yuan Zhou spoke one by one, and by the end, everyone in the audience had their mouths wide open, and Zhang Xiaolong even knelt down.

This is a boss, this is a complete product master!

No one thought that Yuan Zhou could turn a simple mailbox into so many tricks?!

Is this still a mailbox?

This is of course email, and all features are free and there are no ads.

The addition of these functions is just the icing on the cake, in order to make users fall in love with this email software.

These functional updates by Yuan Zhou are almost all practical functions that have been successfully verified by several previous email software.

It can be said to be the culmination of mailbox collection!

Not to mention Gmail, even if all (ceeh) mailboxes are placed in front of Fmail, none of them can compete with it.

This is a dimensionality reduction attack on today's mailboxes using later generations of mailbox products.

"You have to remember that what we make is not a simple email product, but something with a soul. The login page must also be properly optimized..."

Yuan Zhou concluded the last sentence, and all the programmers in the audience were completely convinced by Yuan Zhou.

If they only admired Zhang Xiaolong before, now they have another one in their hearts, that is Yuan Zhou in front of them.

Even Yuan Zhou is already more awesome than Zhang Xiaolong in the minds of some people.

Because Zhang Xiaolong's specialty is development and programming, while Yuan Zhou has more powerful product positioning and functions in addition to these two.

The key is, he is only 18 years old!

"Brother Long, you have met your opponent..."

Yu Chao glanced at Zhang Xiaolong teasingly, and Zhang Xiaolong grinned: "Opponent?"

"You are overthinking. I don't have as many ideas as Mr. Yuan. This person... is simply a product genius!"

"I doubt how he can have so many creative ideas in his mind. In my opinion, if all functions are developed on Fmail, none of the email products in the world will be able to work with Fmail!"

Zhang Xiaolong is definitely telling the truth.

In fact, after reading the drift bottle function, he already knew that Fmail... should be ready.

Let alone 1 billion, 2 billion...3 billion is possible.

After all, Fmail and NetEase are only for domestic use. It is open to 21 countries around the world. Such a degree of divergence... Zhang Xiaolong cannot imagine it at all.

"This is the first product of your Guangdong Branch!"

"But this is just an appetizer!"

Yuan Zhou saw the crowd whispering, and then made a rather heavy statement, which made the programmers who were still immersed in their mailboxes all raise their heads in disbelief.

Appetizer?!

This...this is just an appetizer?!

"The reason why I emphasize the importance of email to you is actually to serve the next second product!"

Email, at a time when mobile phone numbers are not yet common, is definitely the first choice for registration.

The main reason why Yuan Zhou attaches so much importance to Fmail is that if WeChat is launched, there must be a linked product.

And email is the best intermediate channel.

It can open up the bridge between the school network and WeChat and play a connecting role.

The logic of WeChat friends in the previous life was to import them through the address book and QQ; but the current network environment and the immaturity of the mobile Internet make it impossible to have such conditions.

Therefore, email became the key for Yuan Zhou to launch WeChat.

As long as the mailbox is bound to the users of the school network, the first wave of users after WeChat's listing will naturally form.

This is one of the main reasons why Yuan Zhou acquired Zhang Xiaolong's team.

Register with your email to open up the first wave of user traffic on WeChat.

The next two products complement each other and are definitely two swords that can connect the entire Internet market.

"It doesn't matter if you can't make money with free email. What's important is that the stickiness of email users is the highest among all products!"

"Ordinary users will not easily modify their email addresses. Some people even use the same email address for 10 years!"

"This has been recognized by the Internet as the second identity proof of the Internet in addition to ID cards!"

Snapped!

Yuan Zhou immediately opened the second product he was going to talk about in this meeting - instant messaging software: WeChat!.