Chapter 243 This Is the Best Academic Exchange Platform

Because in the current market, there are already several excellent social platforms, especially Penguin’s WeChat and QQ, which occupy most of the social platform market.

Even if Ning Chen develops another social software, it will be difficult to compete with WeChat and QQ, and it will not be able to attract many users.

It is better to directly find a new angle and make a software that specializes in a certain field.

Even if the number of users is not very large, as long as it can occupy this market, Ning Chen's goal has been achieved.

Moreover, Ning Chen originally wanted to focus on academic and scientific research fields. A professional software would actually have a better drainage effect than normal social software.

After returning home, Ning Chen began to sort out the design ideas for this software.

In fact, with Ning Chen's ability, it is possible to make this software by himself, but it will take too long. After all, making a software requires a lot of work. No matter how efficient Ning Chen's work is, it will only take one year. It may not be possible to make a piece of software in a given amount of time.

Since Ning Chen owns a technology company, it is definitely a better thing to leave these tasks to the company's employees.

However, Ning Chen will not completely hand over the tasks to the employees. Instead, he needs to complete the entire software framework before doing so to ensure that the employees can produce the software according to their own ideas.

Every once in a while, Ning Chen will personally check the progress of the software to ensure that everyone's production direction is consistent with his original intention. If there is any deviation in the direction, he can fine-tune the design direction of the software at any time.

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In this way, Ning Chen maintained efficient scientific research work every day, and soon made several outstanding scientific research results.

Ning Chen compiled these results into papers. Each of these papers was an N or S level paper. However, Ning Chen no longer considered submitting the paper to foreign academic journals this time.

These are all the results prepared for the creation of an academic journal. Ning Chen thought that he would have to make a big academic news by then.

On the other hand, with the efforts of the employees of Xingchen Technology Company, the software planned by Ning Chen was gradually developed.

Ning Chen named this software "Xuehai" and it has multiple versions such as app version, PC version, and web version.

In order to increase the attention of this software, Ning Chen invited many friends from domestic and foreign academic circles, including Qiu Chengtong, Tao Zhexuan, Simon Donaldson, James Simmons, etc. to settle in.

These academic leaders all had a strong interest in Xuehai Software, which settled in Ningchen, and readily agreed to Ningchen's invitation.

If it were just some ordinary social platforms, in fact, they would not be willing to join them casually. After all, many academic people do not like the impetuous network environment and prefer to conduct their own scientific research in silence.

On many social platforms, because there is no threshold for speech, this will lead to a lot of meaningless or even negative exchanges, which not only does not help your own scientific research work, but will actually affect normal scientific research work.

But this social platform is an exception, because its original intention was to facilitate academic discussions, and it is destined not to be a popular software.

And this will also make the users of the software have high quality. Even if they are not experts in various industries, they will at least be college students, graduate students in these industries, or civilian enthusiasts in related fields.

Of course, in addition to the areas of focus of the software itself, Ning Chen himself is also the key to attracting them to settle in.

So far, as long as Ning Chen wants to do something, Ning Chen can do it well no matter what it is, so they have full confidence in Ning Chen.

In addition to inviting experts from various fields at home and abroad to join the software, Ning Chen also contacted people from Warwick and asked Warwick to help Xingchen Technology promote Xuehai Software.

After all, the two parties have reached an intention to cooperate on the Star OS system, and Warwick will definitely help with this.

Although Warwick is not yet able to directly build Xuehai software into mobile phones, it can arrange recommended spots for Xuehai software in Warwick's own app store.

Warwick's app store has hundreds of millions of users, and a recommendation position of this level has a very good recommendation effect.

Finally, after continuous testing, the internal beta version of Xuehai app was officially launched in major mobile app stores.

This news quickly attracted the attention of students and teachers from many universities, because this is the first academic-related mobile software on the market, which can facilitate academic communication.

Compared with platforms such as Baidu Tieba and Bihu, Xuehai is undoubtedly more pure. It does not discuss various entertainment gossip topics at all, but is a platform for real academic discussions.

Moreover, the addition of academic experts such as Qiu Chengtong, Tao Zhexuan, Simon Donaldson, James Simmons, and Ning Chen also makes it easier for users to get up close and personal with them.

During the internal testing period of Xuehai, the number of users successively exceeded 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, 200,000...

Finally, when the number of users exceeded 500,000, Ning Chen decided to start releasing the official version.

“I never expected that Xuehai Software’s user base could grow so rapidly.”

In the company office, Ning Chen, Lu Minghao and others discussed the internal beta performance of Xuehai app.

During the internal testing period, the Xuehai app did have some bugs, but this is also very normal.

No software will have bugs during internal testing, otherwise there would be no need for internal testing.

What makes users happy is that these bugs are not particularly serious bugs, and they were quickly fixed as soon as the company discovered the bugs.

This allows Xuehai users to have a very good user experience and will not give up using this software just because of some small bugs.

To attract so many users to register and use Xuehai Software, in addition to the presence of many experts and the promotion helped by Warwick, the production of the software itself is also very critical.

In terms of software design concept, Ning Chen adheres to a minimalist style and does not add any redundant parts to the software, allowing users to get started using the software very quickly.

This is very similar to the Xingchen OS system. Like many software nowadays, the functions are very complex. If you want to get started proficiently, it takes a long time to adapt.

However, the Xuehai app is very simple. It only displays a few commonly used functions first, and does not display all functions on the panel at once.

Coupled with Xingchen Technology's original artificial intelligence system, it can intelligently guide users to use the corresponding functions, which is not available in other software on the market.

"Mr. Ning, now we are ready to release the official version of Xuehai app. With the number of servers we have prepared so far, we can support the use of 10 million users."

This number is already twenty times the number of internal beta users, and is generally enough to accommodate a larger number of users.

It is precisely because Xingchen Technology is very well prepared for the server that there were no program crashes or lags during the internal testing period.

However, Ning Chen still felt that the number of servers seemed a bit small.

After thinking about it, Ning Chen said:

"In this way, Manager Lu, we always pay attention to the number of users of the Xuehai app. When the number of users reaches half of our maximum capacity, we will immediately prepare to expand the server capacity. Although we are only an academic app, the user limit is also It’s not low, because the number of domestic college students alone is as high as over 200 million.”

Although many of these college students have graduated and have not conducted academic research, or they have just entered university and have not yet entered the stage of scientific research, they are undoubtedly potential users of Xuehai Software. Their understanding of academic and scientific research is required. Above average.

"Okay, Mr. Ning, we will keep an eye on this matter and be prepared to expand the server capacity."

After Ning Chen arranged all the precautions regarding the Xuehai software, Xingchen Technology quickly released the official version of the Xuehai app.

This news has attracted the attention of many college students and university teachers. They have been using the closed beta version for so long, and this time they can finally convert it to the official version.

After downloading and using the official version of the Xuehai app, everyone is very satisfied with this software.

"Compared with the internal beta version, the official version of the Xuehai app has more powerful functions, which makes it very convenient for us to browse various academic and scientific research information and conduct academic exchanges with friends at home and abroad."

"In addition to the Xuehai app, Xuehai's PC version and web version are also doing very well. I think the web version is more suitable for content publishing and browsing, while the app version pays more attention to communication and browsing information anytime and anywhere."

"This software is really a boon for college students, graduate students and university teachers. It allows us to focus on academic work instead of paying attention to all kinds of gossip news. This kind of atmosphere is really different. The software doesn’t even have it.”

The popularity of Xuehai app has attracted the attention of many other companies that develop social platforms.

However, Xuehai App is not their competitor in the strict sense. After all, Xuehai is a software that focuses on academics, not a social platform in the conventional sense.

However, the Xuehai app takes up part of the time of high-quality users, and accordingly, their online time on other social platforms will also be reduced.

From this perspective, Xuehai App can also be regarded as one of their competitors.

It's just that they don't have any solution for this competitor, because in this field, they can't do better than Xuehai.