Chapter 28: Not enough money
After the two confirmed their intention to cooperate, the atmosphere became much more casual.
Qin Shaoyan picked up another bottle of beer and handed it to Zhang Pingyi, "I don't drink well, so I drink tea instead of wine."
"Just let me drink and you won't drink, then I'll drink this "What does wine mean?" Zhang Pingyi didn't want to be fooled, "You can drink more."
Qin Shaoyan thought for a while and opened a bottle for himself, "I will drink it with you at my own risk." br>
"Forget it." Zhang Minyi stopped forcing him. He couldn't really drink his boss to death.
"Can you please tell me in detail how to build this school network?"
"I already have a plan." Qin Shaoyan became slightly excited, "Bring me the map."
Qin Shaoyan spread the map of Yanjing on the table and pressed it down with Zhang Pingyi's turtle shell.
“Yenjing’s colleges and universities are densely concentrated, mainly in the HD area. We can use a combination of local promotion and online publicity to achieve viral marketing...”
"Then Tianjin and Hong Kong, and then spread to the south and west."
Zhang Pingyi interrupted Qin Shaoyan's planning blueprint, "I'm not asking you how to promote it. What I want to ask is the specific website plan. What do you do? You have to tell me what you want, right?"
"Oh this." Qin Shaoyan stood up and looked for the whiteboard out of habit. When he found nothing, he turned over a world map and posted it on the wall. .
Qin Shaoyan picked up a pen and drew on the back of the map, "The UI layout of the website is roughly like this."
"It is specifically divided into homepage, personal homepage, friends, square, etc. part.”
"Take the personal homepage as an example for the secondary page. This is the avatar, personal information is displayed below the avatar, this is the message board, and visitor records are displayed on the right..."
Qin Shaoyan explained and drew a rough page. Layout and brief functional introduction.
As an audience member, Zhang Pingyi was drinking beer and thinking about technical solutions, his brows getting tighter and tighter.
“Each user can fill in the information of his/her primary school, middle school, and university, and then the user can see recommendations from the same school, age, or even class as him/her based on the filled in school information.”
< br>“This function is very important. Users can easily build their own social network using the same information as other users.”
Zhang Pingyi sighed and threw away the wine bottle in his hand, "There are too many functions and they are too complicated for me to handle alone."
Qin Shaoyan nodded, "So we have to recruit people. We can't do this alone, and we need a team just to maintain it."
"Yes," Zhang Pingyi grimaced, "This is much more difficult than building an Olympic promotion website."
"We are facing many problems now, including talents, technology, hardware equipment, and the most important thing is funds." Qin Shaoyan looked at Zhang Pingyi meaningfully.
Zhang Pingyi was looked at in confusion, "What do you think I am doing? Don't you have the 600,000 you just defrauded?"
"That's a donation from the two bosses." Qin Shaoyan corrected the other party's wording error, "This money is not free, we have to pay it back in the future."
"But this money can be used to solve some problems first The problem of starting capital."
Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Actually, this 600,000 yuan seems to be a lot, but it is not enough to spend." "Ah?" Zhang Pingyi was stunned! I paused and blinked for a long time, wondering how to spend the 600,000 yuan.
"The first is the server. We definitely can't use a free server. If we rent it, we can't share the server with others." Qin Shaoyan began to write down various expenses on the paper with a solemn expression, "There are two options now, one is the server Hosting, one is hosting”
"Server hosting means renting someone else's server, while hosting means buying your own server and hosting it in an ISP (Internet Service Provider) computer room."
Zhang Pingyi shook his head, "The cheapest server now costs 20,000 yuan. , I don’t know how big the subsequent data volume will be. The cost of the server is not small.”
“There are also the cost of the site, the network, water and electricity, and rent. These are all money.” Qin Shaoyan sighed, “I should have known it. If you don’t rent a house here, it’s only 3,500 yuan a month. If you rent an office, it will be more expensive.”
“If you choose a residential area, you can only use dial-up Internet, right?” Zhang Pingyi was a little confused, “The speed of this network is definitely not good. "
Qin Shaoyan nodded, "At least ten computers are needed for office use, with a budget of six to seven thousand each. This is sixty to seventy thousand. "
"Coupled with staff salary, you need at least a team of 3 to 5 programmers, and one or two artists, one for finance, and one for network management." "No network management is needed for the time being." Zhang Pingyi picked up the pen The word network administrator was dropped, "Let programmers repair computers part-time."
Zhang Pingyi didn't wait for Qin Shaoyan to continue calculating, and already had the result in his mind, "Looking at it this way, this money It won’t last more than a year.”
Qin Shaoyan sighed, “The more money, the less money.”
“Huh?” Zhang Pingyi didn’t realize the logic of this for a moment. .
"So, we still have to increase revenue and reduce expenditure." Qin Shaoyan said with a serious face, "Brother Yi, we have to find another way to make money."
Zhang Pingyi's expression suddenly changed and he stood up immediately , took two steps back, and asked with a vigilant face: "What do you want to do again?"
"What do you mean again." Qin Shaoyan said helplessly, "I'm thinking about how to make money, so our plan can Go on smoothly."
Zhang Pingyi looked at Qin Shaoyan with suspicion, "You don't want to commit fraud again, this is illegal."
Qin Shaoyan said very seriously: "I have always obeyed the law."
"Really? I don't believe it."
"Forget it, let's put up the shelf now." Qin Shaoyan knocked on the table, "Tomorrow I will go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to register the company and complete the formalities first. Come on, we must save money as much as possible in the next time."
Zhang Pingyi nodded, "I still have the fifty thousand yuan given by Mr. Tian."
" Well, the money will be included in the donation." Qin Shaoyan nodded, "Hang up two banners on the Olympic publicity website and write the name of the donor and the amount."
"Also, you go back to school tomorrow and see if you can find some classmates and get them to work part-time."
Zhang Pingyi felt a little guilty when he heard this, "It's not good to get my classmates here, right? "
"This requirement is very simple, I don't care how to implement it." Qin Shaoyan said sternly, "Anyway, give me two cheap programmers."
"Okay." Zhang Pingyi reluctantly agreed.
“Now take the time to eat and rest quickly. There are more important things tomorrow.”
Qin Shaoyan and Zhang Pingyi quickly dazzled the food and then cleaned the battlefield.
After washing up, Zhang Minyi lay down on the hard bed in the second bedroom and fell asleep early.
Qin Shaoyan, on the other hand, had some insomnia. After reviewing his performance at night, he felt that there were no flaws.
One thing he did not deceive Zhang Pingyi is that the money he had was simply not enough to spend on social networking sites.
To make money, you have to start by making stand-alone games, which have a short cycle, high cost performance, and high fault tolerance rate.
Only when you make money from stand-alone games can you continue to burn money for the website to get it going.
As long as the website has large traffic, it will be convenient to do anything.
Yeah, but I can’t talk to Zhang Pingyi about making games now.
There is no need to rush this matter, take your time.
Early the next morning, Zhang Pingyi came out of the second bedroom and saw Qin Shaoyan, who was neatly dressed.
Still wearing the same suit and leather shoes, dressed in the style of a business elite.
Zhang Pingyi felt something was wrong and asked doubtfully: "What are you going to do?"
"There is no way to increase revenue now." Qin Shaoyan smiled slightly, "I'm going to cut costs."< br>
(End of this chapter)