Chapter 205

For the arrival of the first and second leaders of Huizhong at the same time, Zhou Feng, the head of the 7-member group, was also full of accidents. Fang zhe came, but he was not surprised. Fang zhe basically came once a week in the past.

What surprised him was the arrival of Zheng Siwen. Since they came to the closed development of the villa, this was Zheng Siwen's first time here. Now the first and second leaders came at the same time. Is there anything important?

Fang zhe called Zhou Feng into the office simply opened up in the villa. Zheng Siwen followed in and sat down on a sofa.

"How's the project progress? Has the function of the circle of friends been developed?" Fang zhe asked Zhou Feng, who had just walked in.

Fang zhe comes once a week and has some control over the progress of the project. He asks Zhou Feng about more specific development details.

"The function has long been no problem, but in terms of design. To be honest, several of our employees have questions about why we should block the comment information of non my friends. Although we have done this function, we are used to QQ space, and we still don't quite understand this design!"

While replying to Fang Zhe, Zhou Feng also asked his own questions. Fang zhe came to talk with him about the development progress every week and discussed with him about product requirements and design.

In this process, not only did Zhou Feng's demand for products and his design ability have been significantly improved, Fang zhe often discussed with him and thought more carefully about why the fire chat software in the previous life was designed like this. He kept thinking. Fang Zhe's product thinking also gradually began to look at mountains or mountains and water or water.

Fang zhe looked at him, smiled and explained, "I remember when I was in history class, there was a very impressive saying that my slave was a slave, not my slave, talking about the relationship of slavery.

Of course, it may not be appropriate to use it in our products. Change it. My friend's friend is not my friend, which means that in social software, I am always the center of this social circle. My social relationship chain and radiation range should be kept within the range of people I know. This not only simplifies the social relationship between strangers, but also protects the relationship between me and others Privacy!

QQ space does not consider this in its design. It is an open social network similar to Facebook. Any stranger can visit my home page.

Although now QQ space has added certain access rights, not that my friends or designated people can't access it, its permission range is still too large. If I just want to show a certain dynamic not to others, only to my friends, only to some people, and so on, these functions don't exist in QQ space, and we started from this point when we were designing the circle of friends First of all, put me at the center of social networking and put my privacy first!

Foreigners pay more attention to personal privacy than we Chinese people. If we design in the way of QQ space or Facebook, it is at most a replica of Facebook. Compared with them, they have no product competitive advantage. It is easy to have all kinds of contradictions in the future operation process!

Remember, our products are aimed at the world at the beginning, so at the beginning, the three main points of our products are simple, practical and safe! "

Zhou Feng nodded thoughtfully. Although Fang zhe explained for a long time, without the practical operation of the product, I'm afraid he really can't fully understand what Fang zhe said.

"You should prepare as soon as possible, seal up the first three release versions, and prepare the gray release test of the world's first version. In addition, you should pack up and move. From next week, you will work in Xierqi!" Fang zhe arranged.

Zhou Feng asked happily, "can we finally go back to Huizhong office?"

Fang zhe took a silent look at him. As the head of the product team, he asked this question without asking the product first. However, it can also be seen that the seven of them have been holding back in this bird's shit free villa for two months, and they are almost sick!

"Well, are we ready to go online so soon? I remember the plan you arranged before was to go online at the end of this month?" Zhou Feng saw Fang Zhe's expression, which made him think that he had forgotten the importance.

However, Zhou Feng didn't worry much about the release of wechat. They iterated over more than ten versions in two months, and developed four independent functional versions for subsequent updates. According to president Fang, the products always have to be ahead of schedule. For example, the circle of friends function they just discussed, according to president Fang's requirements, It should be added after the third major version. Now it is developed for better testing and product adjustment and optimization!

Grayscale publishing is a very popular operation mode for products in the Internet industry. It refers to the release of a new version of the product. Only a small number of representative users are selected from the existing users to experience first, which is similar to the experience service that can be opened in many games. The purpose is to find the problems existing in the product and solve them as soon as possible without affecting the version already in operation.

Now wechat is preparing to launch the first version online. It is not appropriate to use this word, but Zhou Feng also understands that president Fang means to conduct a small-scale sealing test first, which is different from that they are tested by internal personnel during development. During the sealing test, real user samples will be selected all over the world. At that time, it is the time to really test the product level.

Fang zhe looked at Zhou Feng and said, "there are already competitive products on the line before us, so we can't delay any more. If we delay, there will be changes. The longer we delay, the greater the change.

In addition, you can't go back to Huizhong head office for the time being. Nominally, you are still an employee of Haina Baichuan. The office is a new office building I found in Xierqi. The operation and customer service personnel over there have been basically in place. After you move there, you will prepare for the sealing of the version and the launch of the first version. "

Zheng Siwen, who hasn't spoken for a long time, interrupted: "in fact, what I'm worried about is whether we should open offices in several major regions of the world to share some operations and customer service if we operate directly around the world!"

Fang zhe had thought about this for a long time, but now Fang Zhe is in charge of wechat. Zheng Siwen doesn't know much. Fang zhe patiently explained:

"It's not necessary just to go online. The functions of the earliest version are simple, and the seed users accumulated in the early stage are very important. We need to rely on these users to optimize and improve the products, so we don't plan to spend resources to promote in the early stage, and then roll out in an all-round way when user satisfaction rises.

In the early stage, we can invite some users from all over the world to join the product experience program to help us operate around the world. When the number of users reaches a certain threshold, we can open offices in several major markets around the world to assist in operation and slowly spread the stall! "

Fang Zhe's plan and operation strategy are also summarized by referring to the internationalization experience of large companies such as Facebook in his previous life.

"President Fang, I'm also worried about one thing. Now our products are deployed to Amazon cloud during the test period and initial launch, but when the number of users is very large in the future, I'm afraid?"

Zhou Feng asked about his doubts. Looking around the world, no company has put the product data of hundreds of millions of users on other people's home cloud. It is very inappropriate in terms of data security, confidentiality and so on.