You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 540

The day after the product launch, the Internet was boiling again.

Sentinel Technology's new products have always been the most popular among Internet surfers. Since its establishment, the company has been at the forefront of Internet trends with its product innovation.

Whether it is a social networking site or a video site, other Internet companies have always imitated them.

Sentinel Technologies has become a weather vane of online technology fashion. Not only do a large number of users follow them, but even companies in the Internet industry are keeping a close eye on their developments.

However, the chat software VV launched this time made many people feel confused and surprised, because the chat software field has always been dominated by Penguins.

It is surprising that Sentinel Technology suddenly entered this field, and chat software is not a new product.

Why does Sentinel Technology, which has always been innovative, develop a chat software that confuses everyone?

Soon, some critical voices appeared online, saying that Sentinel Technology had run out of ideas and had started to copy others.

Fortunately, Sentinel Technology has had a very good reputation in recent years. Whether in terms of user experience or control over social platforms, it is at the top of the industry and has very high user loyalty.

From campus network to Happy Farm, from Qvod to Weibo platform, they can all bring different experiences.

So every time a new product is released, there will be a large group of die-hard fans who rush to experience it first. They don’t care whether the new product is innovative or not, they just wait and see.

As soon as the chat software VV was released, hundreds of thousands of users flocked to it, almost paralyzing the server.

The operations team was shocked to discover that they had seriously underestimated the impact of the product.

In less than three days, VV's registered users exceeded one million, and was growing rapidly at a rate of over 300,000 per day.

However, many people register an account just to watch the fun, and it remains to be seen whether they will become regular users.

However, users who come to register an account are basically here for the product "Meitu Shenqi". After all, compared with the chat software VV, this thing is truly a groundbreaking innovative product.

This thing is simply a magic tool for people who like to upload and share photos!
It claims that "one click will make you naturally beautiful and restore your true beauty."

Although smartphones were not as popular as they are in later generations in 2008, mobile phones with cameras were still very common. At the very least, computer cameras could be used as a makeshift device.

Single-shot cameras are a luxury, but compact cameras are very cost-effective, giving ordinary people the opportunity to take photos at will.

Although taking photos is easier than in the film era, the quality of photos is average due to the limitations of the shooting hardware. After all, the camera function of mobile phones does not have high pixels, so it is good enough if the photos are not blurry.

Coupled with the photographer's own shooting skills, the photos are basically hard to describe and are just barely acceptable.

Although compact cameras are good and have enough pixels, most people can’t even get the lighting right when taking photos, let alone composition, golden ratio and the like.

No one knows anything about post-production photo editing, and has never even heard of PS software, so the photos they upload are all without makeup.

This resulted in a lot of black history photos in my space album, but fortunately everyone was of the same level and no one looked down on anyone else.

After the "beauty tool" came out, everything became different.

As a die-hard fan of Sentinel Technology and a senior user of the campus network, Xiao Xiaomeng downloaded the "Photo Beauty Tool" as soon as possible.

After opening the software, she became a little curious. Is this thing really as magical as advertised?

You can beautify your face with just one click, simple operation.

Xiao Xiaomeng followed the software's beginner's guide, imported her selfie into the software, and then pressed the "one-click beauty" button.

Then the software started running and the fan of the computer case started to run at high speed.

After a few minutes, the beautified photo was generated and a pleasant prompt sound was emitted.

When Xiao Xiaomeng's eyes fell on the screen, she was stunned, staring straight at her selfie.

Who is this?
Is this still me?
Am I that beautiful?
The light in the photo has been adjusted, the originally dark overall lightened, and the whole person has become bright and beautiful, with fair and radiant skin.

There is no trace of blemish on my face, including acne, boils and blackheads.

Her eyes seemed to have grown bigger and her face a little thinner, and she looked like a model in a cosmetics commercial.

According to the current popular appearance scoring principles, Xiao Xiaomeng jumped from a 7-point beauty to a 9-point goddess.

Xiao Xiaomeng excitedly held the computer and looked left and right. She couldn't see enough. She never thought that she would have such a beautiful day.

She immediately opened her campus photo album, deleted all her old photos, and replaced them with new photos that had been beautified.

"Change the avatar, change all of them." Xiao Xiaomeng began to work quickly, changing the photo albums on Weibo, and finally she even changed the photos on her QQ space.

When she finished the operation, she found that the message notifications on the campus network and Weibo were increasing rapidly, and it took a long time to open them. Almost all the messages were comments under the photos, and everyone was shocked by her beauty.

"Wow, you're beautiful! Can I meet you?"

"Xiao Meng? Is this you? Did you have plastic surgery?"

"How come you look so beautiful after not seeing you for a night?"

"Who is this? Is this the Xiao Xiaomeng I know?"

"Xiao Meng, for the sake of our classmates, please be sure to tell me the contact information of this beautiful woman."

Xiao Xiaomeng looked at the messages and laughed so hard that she fell backwards.

“The beauty tool is really useful.”

After a while, Xiao Xiaomeng, still excited, quickly opened QQ and left a message to her friend Aya, "Aya, have you used the beauty tool?"

Aya: "The beauty tool? Not yet."

Xiao Xiaomeng: "Go download one, you will thank me! Look at my new photos."

Aya: "Wow, Xiaomeng, you have become so beautiful."

Xiao Xiaomeng: "I am naturally beautiful, and with a little bit of embellishment from the beauty tool, let's go to the next one!"

Aya: "Okay, give me the download address."

Xiao Xiaomeng: "By the way, add my WeChat number. We can chat using that. It's more convenient than QQ."

In just one month, VV's registered users exceeded 10 million, daily active users reached more than 3 million, and more than 90% of users downloaded the "beautifying tool".

VV's strong performance quickly attracted QQ's attention. Of course, it was not because VV posed any threat. They did not think that any competitor could pose a threat to QQ. They just felt surprised.

What does Sentinel Technologies want to do?
How did you get into the instant messaging software market?
Penguin CEO Ma Huateng called Sentinel Technology boss Qin Shaoyan and said directly: "Boss Qin, I heard that you recently launched a new chat software called VV?"

"Oh, is that true?" Qin Shaoyan said casually.

"Mr. Qin, does Sentinel Technology want to enter the chat software market?" Ma Huateng asked.

"Hey, this VV thing is something my R&D team made for fun." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "I took a look at it and thought it was interesting, so I pushed it to the market for players to play with."

"We mainly make picture beautification tools, which are the good stuff."

Ma Huateng hesitated for two seconds. "The chat software market is already saturated. There is no point in VV entering the market. Why waste resources?"

"Saturated?" Qin Shaoyan said in surprise. "The Internet is developing so rapidly now. Thousands of new netizens join every day. The market is expanding all the time. How can it be saturated?"

"If Mr. Ma thinks that the existing users are enough for QQ, then the new Internet user market can be given to us on VV."

"..." Ma Huateng couldn't hold it in any longer, so he said directly, "I think your VV can't compete with our QQ. I'm afraid that Mr. Qin's efforts will be in vain."

"Whether we can win the competition or not, let the market decide." Qin Shaoyan said calmly, "Boss Ma is so confident in his product, so why bother calling me?"

"We had a pleasant cooperation before, so why should we damage the relationship?" Ma Huateng sighed.

"Friendship is friendship, competition is competition, there is no conflict." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "I heard that Counter-Strike Online and Sword Heroes performed quite well."

More than good, these two online games have now become Penguin's main source of income, making a ton of money.

Therefore, Ma Huateng was afraid to break off relations with Qin Shaoyan.

"..." Ma Huateng couldn't help but say, "Since President Qin is so confident, let's have a fair competition and see what the market chooses."

"Okay." Qin Shaoyan said without hesitation, "As long as Penguin doesn't copy our products, why don't we compete?"

Ma Huateng immediately raised his voice, "Qin Shaoyan, what do you mean by this? What do you mean that we Penguin copy your products?"

"Nothing, I just said it casually." Qin Shaoyan acted very calmly, "I think with Penguin's strength, he can defeat us without imitating us, right, Mr. Ma?"

"Bang", the other end hung up the phone.

Qin Shaoyan sighed and put down the phone. Why was he still so anxious?

(End of this chapter)