Since they are reborn, they must be supported by the school beauties.

Chapter 53: Doing More is Never Wrong

Given that there are no photo album products available to current users, Chen Cheng feels that the gimmick of being the first photo album product on the Chinese Internet alone can attract a large number of users.

However, when he rented a server from Electronics City, he considered the future server and bandwidth costs.

If a user posts text, whether uploading or downloading, it only takes up very little bandwidth and storage also takes up very little memory.

1KB can store 341 to 512 Chinese characters. In theory, a 1-word essay published by a user is KB in size.

Even if the user sits in front of the computer and writes non-stop every day, it is difficult for him to write 20KB every day.

In this case, the pressure on server bandwidth and server storage is extremely small.

However, once the photo album function is turned on, a user uploading a picture of normal resolution may take up several hundred KB. If a few pictures are uploaded and downloaded in a day, the data storage and throughput will increase by dozens or even hundreds of times.

Correspondingly, bandwidth costs and server storage costs will also soar.

If the average number of daily users is tens of thousands, the cost may increase from a few thousand yuan per month to tens of thousands of yuan.

If the number of users exceeds tens or millions, the monthly cost of servers and bandwidth will probably reach six figures.

However, after careful consideration, Chen Cheng decided to develop this function first.

Because one of the experiences he has accumulated over the years is: doing nothing is always the easiest, but doing more is never wrong.

As long as the album function is developed, you will have at least four more options:

First, the photo album function can be temporarily unavailable and remain in place;

Second, once the product is launched, we can find other ways to solve the cost issue, such as seeking angel round investment;

Third, launch the app, but control the size of the photo album space. For example, initially only give each user a few or ten MB of space. For users, having some space is better than having none, and having some space is the biggest improvement.

Fourth, if you go online and exceed the basic space, you will be charged separately, such as three to five yuan, or five to eight yuan per month.

You can even use the idea of ​​QQ Space Yellow Diamond to get an on-campus membership.

By becoming a member, not only will your photo album space be greatly increased, you will also receive a distinguished member badge, and can even post photos and view visitor records.

As long as you develop this function yourself, you can choose any of the four options.

But if you don't implement this feature for the sake of convenience, and then change your mind at the last minute, you will have to wait for it to be developed bit by bit.

When it comes to starting a business, either don’t do it, or if you do it, don’t complain about the hassle. Those who complain about the hassle will basically starve to death in the end.

Moreover, once you choose to develop the album function, you will inevitably realize the functions of uploading and displaying pictures.

Based on this, Chen Cheng only needs to make a slight change to add a new feature that other websites do not have: custom avatar.

Nowadays, all Chinese forums, websites, and even QQ do not have the function of customizing avatars.

If I remember correctly, the first version of QQ that supported custom avatars was launched in 2004.

Once this feature is launched on social platforms, it will usher in a new era of real-life avatars, and the effect is absolutely amazing.

After clearly listing all his needs and ideas, he familiarized himself with several essential software available today and began to explore and try them out.

It was a little awkward at first, but I soon found the rhythm.

Xiaonei is not a software, but a web product, and most of its functions are not difficult to implement.

Moreover, although the current Internet is very rudimentary, many geeks have begun to share and open source some codes online.

If you want to make a BBS, you don’t need to develop it yourself. There are a lot of ready-made codes on the Internet. You can modify them in two days and deploy them online.

For Chen Cheng's campus network, many functional modules, such as user login and registration, and user information release functions, can be found in open source code on the Internet.

Chen Cheng found some suitable open source codes and tested them roughly. He found that these codes could be used with slight modifications and optimizations.

Although some codes cannot be matched with high degree, they can be modified with other functional codes.

For example, it is currently impossible to find the information flow display code for friend updates, but Chen Cheng discovered that it is actually possible to use the underlying code of web forums and BBSs that displays titles in the order of posting, and only slight adjustments need to be made to the display logic.

After all, from a basic logical point of view, BBS is also one of the earliest information flow displays.

Currently, there is no code for any function except photo album, which is not surprising, as there is no photo album product on the entire Chinese Internet.

After searching for a large amount of open source code, Chen Cheng speculated that by National Day, version 1.0 of the campus network would be ready for testing.
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In the evening, several roommates came back from the Internet cafe.

Seeing that Chen Cheng had already bought the computer, everyone was surprised and surrounded him asking questions.

Chen Cheng was well prepared. Although laptops were quite rare, there were no games or movies in this computer, and nothing else except a few development software.

So everyone quickly lost interest in watching.

Chen Cheng sat on the upper bunk with his legs over the edge of the bed and his laptop on his legs, ensuring privacy.

He is addicted to things.

Once you get involved, you will seize every spare moment to give it your all.

He came back in the afternoon and didn't get out of bed until dinner time except to go to the bathroom.

Several roommates invited him to dinner, but he didn't go. He just asked Su Hexiang to bring him some bread and milk to make do with the meal.

Everyone in the dormitory thought he was possessed, but he was the backbone of the dormitory after all, so everyone tacitly agreed not to disturb him.
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Monday morning.

Su Hexiang read the text message and told Chen Cheng that the store's sales on Sunday had dropped a bit, reaching 18,000.

There was definitely a decline on Sunday, but Chen Cheng was not surprised.

I made 26,000 on Friday and 29,000 on Saturday.

The total sales for the three days from Friday to Sunday was 73,000.

The Su brothers and sisters were all very happy.

Chen Cheng was naturally very pleased.

According to this trend, Chen Cheng felt that if he could perform stably on four weekends a month, he would be able to maintain a basic base of 300,000.

If I sell it casually during the remaining working days, I can at least make tens of thousands of yuan, right?
The cost of cocktails is so low, and they are given away regularly to stimulate consumption, so it should not be a problem to make 100,000 a month on normal weekdays.

In this way, a monthly turnover of 400,000 can be easily achieved.

Four hundred thousand, minus the guaranteed performance of 20, and multiplied by %, my commission will be .

There is a seven-day National Day holiday in October. Coupled with the reputation and repeat customers accumulated by Yexing in September, business will be even better and my income will be higher.

With this cash flow from Yexing, the operating costs of my own campus network in the initial stage of its launch should still be affordable.

Otherwise, you need to find the first round of financing before going online.

He currently has no resources or connections in any investment bank, so the possibility of him getting investment directly is very slim.

Even if you find the email addresses of those investment banks and send them your business plan for financing, there is a high probability that it will fall on deaf ears.

So Chen Cheng planned to build the campus network himself first.

It is easier to communicate with investors if the product functions, detailed features, and target audience all have a visible framework.

Moreover, Chen Cheng has always felt that when industry competition has not yet reached full swing, if entrepreneurs are confident in their entrepreneurial products and have certain capabilities to nurture the project in the early stages, financing should not be too early, because the earlier the financing is, the less valuable it will be.

If you only have a good idea and a PPT, investors may give you one million, which accounts for 20%;

If you spend some money to develop the page product and show it to investors, they may give you 20 million, which is % of the investment.

The product has been launched, has a certain user base, and the general user feedback is really good. All that is missing is a large amount of funds to explode. Investors, who also account for 20%, may give million or even more.

Some entrepreneurs like to make absolute risk splitting, that is, they don’t spend any of their own money and use all the investors’ money to try.

Chen Cheng feels that incubating a project with his own money in the early stages will give him the same intimacy as if he were his own son. No matter whose money is used to raise the child in the end, at least the seeds are his own. With this foundation, he will be more committed mentally and energetically.

Relying on the wild income, I can at least support a small seed round for Xiaonei.com and let the seed germinate first.

　Please give me a monthly ticket!!!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)