When the programmer opens the plug-in

Chapter 125 Mailbox Software
The four of them and Cheng Wen had already discussed a lot of things at the dinner table. In fact, Cheng Wen originally thought that if there were more than 1000 people, he would give a [-]% discount, but then he went to check the charges of other office software.

Some are charged monthly, just like video members.

However, the fees they charge are relatively expensive, and the monthly membership fee is more than 20. Of course, it will be cheaper for half a year or a whole year, and it will be cheaper if you choose continuous monthly subscription.

But the 20 mentioned by Cheng Wen includes three software usage rights, and the time is not monthly or yearly, but permanent.

Even if they don't pay, what individual users have to face is just to watch an extra 1.5 seconds of advertisements, and there are no other restrictions.

If it is really like some video sites, where you can pay for free ads, and then pay for advanced on-demand, it would be too...

Anyway, Cheng Wen couldn't do it, that's what he said before.

After the two parties separated, Cheng Wen calculated that if a school bought 20 licenses, their company would only receive [-].

If 1000 million people across the country are willing to pay, then their company can receive 2 million yuan.

Looking at it this way, it is quite a lot, but Cheng Wen always feels that this is quite a few.

Fortunately, the software they made is just one of them.

Cheng Wen felt that they were about to recruit people, and people would come to work in the company soon.

At that time, some tools and software that are not easy to use can be redone. Some of them can be charged, but most of them can still be used for free.

Thinking of this, Cheng Wen remembered a software they had encountered before that was very commonly used, but would get stuck when there was too much data, and sometimes it would take a long time to open or close.

That is mail software.

This can be said to be one of the most commonly used software by the staff.

Usually, many things are sent by email, such as meeting notices, bug list bug status modification, and alarms. These are not particularly important.

Especially important, such as product discussions, or some communication, tens of thousands of emails can be received in no time.

When there are tens of thousands of letters, it is particularly difficult to operate. Cheng Wen has cleaned them up once before and deleted those that are not important.

But after he chooses, he will be stuck for a long time when he clicks delete, and sometimes he needs to delete it several times to delete those useless emails.

In the end, thousands of emails were left, and it was still slow to open and close the email software.

This is the built-in software on the mac used by Cheng Wen. If you use the Microsoft Outlook, it will probably be even more laggy.

"If the software is not easy to use when the user is at work, it will definitely waste a lot of time, but if the software is redeveloped, the speed will be improved. It can be said that sharpening a knife is not a mistake."

Cheng Wen felt that he could focus his energy on this next.

In fact, many companies in China or in the world are doing this, such as NetEase, they started with mailboxes.

There is also Zhang Xiaolong, the strongest product manager. Before starting WeChat, he worked on Foxmail by himself. Later, he joined Tencent and was first in charge of QQ mailbox.

In the end, in order to make an instant messaging software for mobile phones, Tencent's internal team adopted a horse racing method within the company, and the team led by Zhang Xiaolong won in the end.

In fact, their success is inseparable from Zhang Xiaolong's rich experience in developing foxmail.

Cheng Wen wants to develop this software because it is not easy to use, but it seems that there are not many particularly easy-to-use software.

In Cheng Wen's opinion, the software that is easy to use has the following characteristics:

One is to be stable and not stuck. In fact, to put it bluntly, it mainly refers to the performance of the software;

The second is that it is easy to use, basically without too much learning cost, you can get started immediately;

The third is that there are not many functions, but the commonly used ones must be available. It would be great if there are a few unique killer functions of its own.

The reason why Cheng Wen feels that the mail function is not easy to use is because it has not even achieved the first goal.

Generally speaking, the third is the easiest to achieve among these three, because this is a matter of mentioning and writing functions.

If the most difficult thing is not the first one, it should be the second one.

Don't you see, Jobs is one of the greatest product managers, and the Apple mobile phone he invented is an epoch-making new product.

It is very difficult to achieve low learning cost and simplicity.

But sometimes this is based on the first one. If the performance of the software cannot be achieved, any simplicity is nonsense.

The current mail software is okay to use, more convenient, and full-featured, which can already meet daily needs.

Thinking of this, Cheng Wen called a meeting.

"Now our office software Three Musketeers has been developed, do you have any ideas for the next work?"

Cheng Wen asked, he didn't express his thoughts immediately, but wanted to see what everyone thought.

"I think we can develop some more software, and now rapid development is one of our strengths."

Feng Le said that he saw that Cheng Wen set the price of this software too low, so he wanted to develop more useful ones, which would not only make more money, but also bring more and better benefits to the majority of users. the software used.

"I also have an idea, now our front-end does not have a very useful framework, I wonder if we can make one.

In the future, if there are more front-ends, everyone does not need to make wheels, just use this directly.

But I'm also a little worried. "

Lu Danxue said that what she thinks is that it is best for a company to have a unified specification, but she is also a little uncertain because natural programming languages ​​are too general, and if she develops a framework, she is afraid that some of the language will be restricted. thing.

Cheng Wen knew what she was worried about.

"You are worried that the framework will affect people's use, then you can develop this framework wider without adding too many functions.

Just add a simple constraint a little bit, looser.

In this way, you don’t need to spend too much time when developing this framework, and don’t waste too much energy on it. Natural language itself has many usages, and you can’t impose too many regulations on it.

Otherwise, it will end up reduced to ordinary Chinese programming language, and the nature in the 'natural language' will be lost. "

After hearing Cheng Wen's analysis, Lu Danxue thought of several methods in her mind.

As Cheng Wen said, not only can it be completed in a short time, but it will not cause too much interference to users, allowing them to fully use all the functions of this natural language.

(End of this chapter)