Chapter 64: Tiantian Community

At the entrance of the café.

Liu Xuewei, having already changed into casual clothes, walked in. Her gaze swept the room, and she quickly locked onto a certain direction.

Seeing that Su Xin had not noticed her arrival, Liu Xuewei deliberately softened her footsteps, preparing to walk over and tease him.

But when she reached Su Xin's table, she saw him still intently watching the coffee in the cup before him, his right hand unconsciously stirring with a spoon, seemingly lost in deep thought.

Liu Xuewei had no choice but to sit down cautiously, gesture to the waiter who happened to be walking by to not disturb them, and then wait patiently.

……

"For the issue of overseas user payments, the most suitable method should be to open an overseas branch or set up a dedicated overseas account for receiving funds."

"If it's the former, after opening an overseas branch, we can arrange personnel to specifically operate the overseas market. After all, besides the overseas descendants of the dragon, there are even more foreigners; that is also a very massive potential market, perhaps even much larger than the entire Long Country market. The sooner we enter, the better."

"However..."

"The overseas version of Tiantian Assistant needs to be redeveloped. After all, the recognition and analysis of Long language and Eagle language are completely different matters, and various functional widgets will also need to be developed."

Su Xin thought for a while, but still gave up on the plan to open an overseas branch. After all, the development of Tiantian Assistant relied entirely on him alone. No matter how tempting the overseas market was, in his view, it could not compare to the new energy vehicle industry.

His energy was currently limited, so he could only temporarily abandon such a large overseas market.

"It seems the best plan for now is still to open an account specifically for receiving overseas payments and launch a dedicated payment interface for overseas users on Tiantian Assistant, just capturing that portion of the market of overseas descendants of the dragon will suffice."

"When the time is right and the popularity of Tiantian Assistant overseas has expanded further, then we will open an overseas branch and enter the international market."

While pondering, Su Xin picked up his coffee cup and took a light sip, only to discover that the coffee had already gone cold.

"Oh no, I'm still waiting for Xuewei!"

Su Xin suddenly came back to his senses, his consciousness returning to his body. Only then did he notice that Liu Xuewei had been sitting opposite him for who knows how long, and he quickly said:

"Sorry! I was just lost in thought. When did you get here? Have you been waiting long?"

Liu Xuewei smiled and shook her head: "No, I just arrived a moment ago too."

Su Xin didn't dwell on this topic, and after calling the waiter to pay the bill, he took Liu Xuewei and left the café.

On a midsummer evening, even with the night breeze blowing, it still felt sultry, especially for Su Xin and Liu Xuewei, who had just walked out of the cool café and frowned under the onslaught of the incoming heatwave.

In such sweltering conditions, the two had no desire to stroll the streets, so they headed straight to a restaurant for a meal. It wasn't until after nine o'clock in the evening, when a hint of coolness entered the air, that the two went to a park together and sat chatting for a long time.

……

The next day.

Su Xin went to driving school for over an hour in the morning, arrived at the company at noon, instructed Liu Qingli on the matter of opening an overseas account, and then dove into his office to develop the widget functions for Tiantian Assistant.

Although he hadn't been at the company these past few days, the voice packs and dynamic avatars for Tiantian Assistant had been constantly updated. Coupled with the ten practical functional widgets he had released consecutively before, the functions of Tiantian Assistant were continuously being perfected. These various actions drew praise from numerous member users.

After all, everyone had already paid their membership fees, and Tianqi Technology was still able to continuously develop new personalized features for everyone to use for free. Compared to many internet companies, this approach could be considered quite conscientious.

This goodwill prompted many users to choose to continue topping up, upgrading from ordinary members to premium members.

In the eyes of many users, even just the functions of Tiantian Input Method and Tiantian Translator were worth more than the extra 20 yuan per month, not to mention the constant stream of new features that provided one surprise after another.

And what Su Xin was going to develop next was the community interaction function.

The reason he thought of this was mainly related to the trending search he saw on the blog yesterday.

If he hadn't happened to see that trending search, he might not have known that Tiantian Assistant had become so popular abroad.

The biggest problem revealed behind this was that Tianqi Technology lacked a channel to communicate with users and could not understand user needs in a timely and accurate manner; they were so blind that they only saw the needs raised by so many users when they happened to see a blog trending search.

Therefore, he wanted to develop a Tiantian Community function, which would allow users to raise needs within it and also allow users to communicate with each other.

In this way, when he developed new functional widgets in the future, he wouldn't have to rack his brain to think; he would only need to develop them in a targeted manner based on the users' needs. It would be convenient for himself and satisfy the users—killing two birds with one stone.

Besides this, Tiantian Community might slowly gather popularity, making the status of Tiantian Assistant more and more central in the hearts of users, and slowly increasing user activity.

By then, relying on the powerful traffic and activity of Tiantian Assistant, whatever they developed would be easy to achieve, just like Penguin Group, which controlled the largest active traffic portal.

Traffic, in the world of the internet, is the most valuable resource.

About an hour later.

Su Xin had finished developing the Tiantian Community function. The development of such small functions was a piece of cake for the current Su Xin. If it weren't for trying to perfect the functions as much as possible, he would have needed at most ten minutes to finish developing it.

However, Tiantian Community was different from functional widgets like the input method; it was intended to exist as a basic function of Tiantian Assistant, ensuring that any user could use it. Therefore, it could not be directly placed into the widget function library, but required a software update to be implemented.

He tested the program, and after confirming there were no issues, he sent it to the technical department staff, letting them arrange a suitable time to push the update.

Then he took a brief look at the company data.

Over this past week, some users whose memberships had expired had topped up to renew, and some users had upgraded to premium members, bringing in tens of millions in revenue for Tianqi Technology one after another.

The balance in the company account had reached four hundred million again.

Such terrifying money-making ability would likely make any company drool with envy.

Su Xin, however, just took a look, casually closed the page, and continued to look at other operational data.

At this moment, a light knock sounded on the door.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

"Please come in!"

Su Xin looked up toward the door and saw Liu Qingli push the door open and enter, coming to sit opposite his desk.

"Boss, the matter of the overseas account has already been arranged for someone to handle, and it will be completed by tomorrow. This matter is my serious dereliction of duty; I had been focusing on the domestic market and actually neglected so many descendants of the dragon users abroad."

Su Xin was noncommittal and said: "I have developed a Tiantian Community function for Tiantian Assistant users to post and communicate. You arrange a few employees to keep an eye on the dynamics of Tiantian Community every day, and remember to provide timely feedback if there are major issues or opinions."

"Understood."

Liu Qingli nodded, then handed over a folder and said earnestly:

"There is one more thing, regarding the Solid-state Battery Technology the boss mentioned yesterday. I have redone a strategic plan for Tianqi Energy; please take a look."