Chapter 32: Please Top Up

After the awkwardness passed, Su Xin called the owners of several office buildings he had taken a liking to, one after another, to inquire about their leasing plans.

Then, he ran to several of the office buildings to negotiate in person; it was only near evening that he finally reached an agreement with one of them—

The office building he rented was named Yonghui Building, located in the prime business district of the capital, Tianjing City. The single-floor area reached 1,409 square meters, and the monthly rent was 375,000, plus a monthly property management fee of 25,000; adding all expenses together, it came to 400,000 per month.

At such a price, Su Xin would not have been able to rent it based on his original budget, but when he attempted to meet the owner for a face-to-face negotiation, the other party readily agreed to his terms, namely—

A deposit of one month's rent with one month's payment for the first quarter, and from the second quarter onwards, the standard plan of a deposit of three months' rent with three months' payment.

After signing the contract, the other party revealed the reason: "I have seen your performance online, and I am currently using your Tiantian Assistant. I believe that with the strength of Tianqi Technology, it won't be long before it becomes one of the top technology companies in the country. A mere few months of rent is certainly no problem for you."

"I have high hopes for you! In the future, you will surely become the pride of the Long Country's technology sector! Keep it up!"

The owner of Yonghui Building, Xu Tiande, patted Su Xin on the shoulder, and after exchanging a few friendly words, he took his leave.

Looking at the spacious office, Su Xin could not help but feel relaxed and smiled:

"The office building is settled. Next, we will split into two groups; I will contact the renovation and design, and you will be responsible for staff recruitment."

"Alright, then I'll get to work."

Liu Xuewei also looked full of fighting spirit.

A 5A-grade office building like Yonghui Building is usually already finely renovated. After the company moves in, it only needs simple soft furnishings, plus a full set of office supplies and so on, to be ready for direct use.

The recruitment work was also exceptionally smooth. After all, with the reputation of Tiantian Assistant out there, everyone could realize the huge potential of Tianqi Technology. For a time, a large number of applicants sent in their resumes one after another.

Liu Xuewei only needed to select the most outstanding and suitable ones from the massive pile of resumes.

Days passed by one after another.

The company's soft furnishings were completed in just a few days, and the purchased office supplies were also quickly in place.

In the following time, Su Xin ignored Liu Xuewei's recruitment work and stayed in the office alone to continue software development.

To be precise, he was adding functional plugins to Tiantian Assistant, just as Liu Qingli had said at the beginning: embedding basic functions like an alarm clock, calculator, notepad, and so on into Tiantian Assistant.

Su Xin only spent two hours developing these basic functions and successfully embedded them into Tiantian Assistant.

In the two days that followed, he spent his time developing a brand-new voice input method.

The reason he chose to develop the voice input method first was that the core function of Tiantian Assistant already included ultra-precise voice recognition, and this was the core technology of a voice input method.

From this point, it was destined that Tiantian Assistant possessed the potential to far exceed any voice input method on the market.

What he had to do next was to add the function of automatically and accurately adapting to converted text and punctuation marks, and to perfect some details, which could allow some office workers to completely free their hands and greatly improve work efficiency, while ordinary users could completely get rid of traditional input methods.

Among these, the automatic matching of punctuation marks not only required recognizing speech but also required the ability to accurately analyze the context and tone to match the most appropriate punctuation marks; this required a large amount of learning data to generate the corresponding matching logic.

Therefore, Su Xin spent a full two days to complete the development of the Tiantian Input Method.

Although these plugin functions could not bring direct revenue to Su Xin, they could increase the appeal of Tiantian Assistant to users.

Just as Liu Qingli said, Tiantian Assistant was only a tool; if a more powerful tool appeared, users could abandon it at any time.

Although Su Xin was confident that his technology would always be the most top-tier, no one dared to guarantee whether a powerful competitor would suddenly emerge.

What's more, there would always be some people who were not interested in software like Tiantian Assistant, and if he wanted to increase the users of Tiantian Assistant as much as possible, he had to increase the utility and value of Tiantian Assistant.

Therefore, besides constantly optimizing and improving Tiantian Assistant, he also had to increase its status in the hearts of users by adding various practical functions, making everyone increasingly unable to do without it, and greatly enhancing user stickiness.

This would allow even those users who were completely uninterested in novel functions to be attracted and become loyal users of Tiantian Assistant.

And as long as there were enough users and the user stickiness was high enough, Tiantian Assistant could continuously earn him massive amounts of money.

After the input method development was completed, seeing that the recruitment work had not yet ended, Su Xin continued to bury himself in development.

During this period.

Those executives of technology companies who had gone to Jianghai City and searched all around without finding Su Xin, upon learning that Su Xin had already arrived in Tianjing, rushed to find Tianqi Technology without stopping, wanting to talk to Su Xin about acquisition or investment, only to be decisively rejected by him one by one.

In the blink of an eye, another twenty-plus days passed.

On the morning of the day that marked one full month since Tiantian Assistant went online, everyone, including Su Xin, arrived at the company early and sat in the No. 1 large conference room, quietly watching the projection screen.

Because, according to the one-month trial rule of Tiantian Assistant, today would be the day the first batch of users' trial period ended, and it was also the first day that Tiantian Assistant officially began charging fees.

Everyone was looking forward to it with bated breath.

Although everyone knew that with the power of Tiantian Assistant, the payment rate would certainly not be low, but without seeing the payment data with their own eyes, everyone still felt some anticipation and nervousness in their hearts.

Su Xin had even significantly upgraded the scale of the rented cloud servers yesterday to avoid lag when a large number of users paid on the first day, which would leave a bad impression on users.

After all, he clearly remembered that the number of users reached 20 million on the first morning that Tiantian Assistant went online, and considering that some people would choose to pay before the trial period ended.

According to Su Xin's estimation, the number of paying users this morning would reach six or seven million, or possibly even more.

With such a large volume of visits, the previous cloud server scale would certainly not be enough, and the upgraded cloud server could support 10 million people visiting simultaneously.

After all, Tiantian Assistant belonged to the category of standalone tool software; the biggest role of the server was to store user data, as well as the access demand when paying membership fees. Therefore, the upgraded cloud server capable of supporting 10 million people visiting simultaneously was absolutely enough for the short term.

In the nervous and expectant gaze of everyone, the time slowly reached nine o'clock in the morning.

Su Xin ordered in a deep voice:

"Open the payment interface!"

In a certain office building.

Liu Xiaotong was sitting at her workstation as usual, typing on the keyboard with a clatter while simultaneously operating her phone placed to the side with voice commands, occasionally browsing a shopping app or chatting with friends on WeChat.

Before there was Tiantian Assistant, she simply couldn't slack off like this while working; after all, when operating a phone, her hands had to leave the keyboard, which would greatly affect work efficiency.

But now, with the convenient operation of Tiantian Assistant, she only needed to occasionally scan the phone screen while working and say a few simple words to perfectly control the phone.

Anyway, her work content didn't require much focus; as long as she was a bit diligent and her hands didn't stop, she basically wouldn't delay her work.

It could be said that after having Tiantian Assistant, her work habits had changed quite a bit, making her no longer feel that sense of boredom she had before while at work.

Just at this moment, a prompt suddenly popped up on the phone screen—Your trial period has ended. If you wish to continue using it, please top up to become an official member. Thank you for your support!

Below the prompt message, there was also a shortcut to top up the membership.