Chapter 40: The side job is initially decided, and inspiration comes like diabetic diabetic! 14 months after Groupon, the pioneer of group buying websites in the United States, appeared and became popular. In January 2010, the first group buying website in China was launched - . Later, Groupon also saw the potential of the Chinese market and entered through a joint venture, establishing . The names of these two websites combined happen to sound like "Gaopeng Manzuo". I don't know whether it was intentional or accidental. However, the domain name of , which has a legitimate origin, is not because it was registered by someone else. So they had to settle for the second best and use . The domain name was intercepted by , which was launched two months later. In March, influenced by the "Western Wind Moving East", some group buying websites that Chen Mo was familiar with arrived on the battlefield one after another. On March 3, Wang Xing and Wang Huiwen’s Meituan was established. A day later, on the 5th, Chen Ou, who had just returned from graduating from Stanford and later said "I am my own spokesperson", founded , the predecessor of Jumei.
March 3, On the 18th, . Wowotuan, 24 coupons. Among them were more than a dozen group buying websites that Chen Mo had never heard of before. And this is just the beginning. In the next one to two years, the number of group purchases will grow to hundreds or even thousands. During the peak period, there will be thousands of group buying websites. Countless capitals rushed in, the O2O field was in a bloody storm, and the blue ocean was turned into a red ocean. The spring of 2010 was also the spring for group buying entrepreneurs. Currently, the O2O field is sweeping across the entire Chinese Internet like wildfire. It has become the hottest topic since Google launched China. After Chen Mo wrote the words "build a website" on the notebook, he paused. I just build and sell websites, and I feel like I haven't made enough use of the capital, which is a bit of a pity. He had a vague feeling that he could still do something with it, but the inspiration was fleeting, and he failed to gank just now and didn't catch it. Just like if you want to make mobile phones, you can’t just make mobile phones. If you want to do group buying, you can’t just build websites. What else is there? Chen Mo stared at the Baidu homepage in front of him, tapping the table rhythmically with his fingers, and fell into deep thought. Baidu, Baidu, I search for him thousands of times in my dreams. A few minutes later, I looked back Chen Mo accidentally saw the hao123 entrance on the Baidu homepage, and he was shocked. He caught Huadian who was running around! Yes! hao123! It can be used for navigation. As early as the beginning of the 2000s, in the early stages of domestic Internet development, Internet users’ computer operations and knowledge were far behind the scale of explosive growth. Internet users include a large number of young people who are surfing the Internet for the first time in Internet cafes, primary school students who have just purchased computers in thousands of households, and elderly people who can hardly use a keyboard and can only operate a mouse. Those who often play games in Internet cafes, can press alt+F4, ctrl+shift+del, alt+tab, and know how to restart the system without pressing the small button on the chassis can be considered computer experts. At that time, there were countless websites of various types, but netizens never remembered the URLs when they went online. They could not even enter or visit easy-to-remember URLs like because they did not know what the address bar was, what the URL was, and even had difficulty typing on the keyboard. At this time, URL navigation came into being. In fact, this website has no technical content, but it has developed rapidly by solving the pain points of the majority of netizens when surfing the Internet. People directly set this URL navigation website as their homepage. As long as they open the homepage, a wizard page will open, which will include all categories of well-known websites on the Internet. They can open the corresponding website simply by clicking the mouse, which brings an extremely convenient experience to the majority of netizens. The simpler something is, the more difficult it is to surpass once you gain a first-mover advantage. Even if you want to copy it, you will not be able to catch up. Hao123 occupied the homepages of most netizens in the early days of the Internet, and its traffic even exceeded the combined total of NetEase and Sina, firmly occupying the number one position among navigation websites.
The two giants' more than 123 employees have never beaten Li Xingping, the founder of hao who never even attended high school. Later, Li Xingping sold hao123 to Baidu for million yuan. At this moment, just as at that moment. After building the website, the word "navigation" was added to Chen Mo's notebook. With a direction, his inspiration was like diabetes insipidus, and he couldn't stop. [Group buying one-stop website building]: It is short, flat, fast and universal, and treats customers as fools. Modular, configurable, universal theme, reserved for customized secondary development and extension, authorization mechanism, encryption and anti-cracking 【Website Navigation】: Build a bridge between group buying websites and users (positioning: middleman). Benchmarking websites: hao123, alex (website ranking), Douban model The latest group buying information, group buying reviews, searches, and collections on the market. First accumulate raw data and prioritize crawlers (a program that automatically grabs various information on the Internet according to pre-set rules). In just one hour, Chen Mo drew out the rough prototypes of the two websites based on the general impression of several websites in his mind. Then I read the whole article, marked the priorities, and estimated the time based on my own evening schedule. There are several steps to put an elephant in the refrigerator. The first step is to create a crawler and grab the data from the popular group buying websites on the market. The second step is to create a navigation website. The third step is to build a group buying website system. Looking at his own achievements, Chen Mo was very excited, but he felt that it was not enough to enjoy it alone. He slapped Sun Ziwei's dog head. "Hero, are you interested in something that will change your life?" Half an hour later, Sun Ziwei's eyes were full of fire and his mouth never closed. "What the hell? Go on." "Fuck! That's awesome! Is this even possible?" "Wo Shit! That's awesome! What a brain, how did you come up with that?" When he heard the key point, Sun Ziwei even rolled up his sleeves excitedly, revealing his powerful biceps. "Jin Zi, after hearing what you said, I heard the sound of financial freedom next month. If I didn't know that you had been grinding before, I would have thought you had been doing MLM for a year based on your eloquence." "Stop talking about useless things and get it done first. I just gave you a rough idea. Next, we will refine the functional modules and the division of labor. It's a good opportunity for you to put what you have learned into practice." Then he taught his grandson the general principles and crawling rules of crawler programs. By the time all this was done, it was already past 10 o'clock. The technology of group buying navigation website is very simple. The main difficulty lies in the inconsistent crawling rules of various group buying websites and the accumulation of raw data. If everything goes well, it can be done in a few days. Since the website must be universal and easy to use, the more you want to treat your customers as fools, the greater the complexity behind it, so the two estimated the workload to be one month. Chen Mo thought about it and decided that these two secret weapons should be mature by the end of May, just in time to catch up with the fierce competition in the group buying market. Everything is the best arrangement.
Chen Mo was about to finish up, so he entered the contents of the notebook into the computer. He also thought of a name for the group buying website. He had originally planned to imitate hao123 and call it tuan123, but in the end, the evil domain name merchant registered the domain name first. Finally, register tuango123 and tuango321. It was 11 o'clock in the evening. Chen Mo didn't even need the alarm clock to remind him. He yawned physiologically. Looking at my best friend who was already writing a crawler program with great enthusiasm, I said, "Hey, go to bed early~" no response. Never mind. This kid is probably going to sleep on his own if he is tired. He is not really stupid. Chen Mo washed up, went back to his room and went to bed. He read the Labor Law and soon fell into a sound sleep. (End of this chapter)