Chapter 276: Rapid Development (Part 1)

Two days passed quickly, and after 【Cybertron Cloud Drive】 launched on numerous domestic PC and mobile platforms, it passed the reviews one after another.

Because the upload time was still short, and coupled with the fact that the winter for the domestic cloud/network drive market had arrived in recent years, major platforms were not optimistic about a new cloud drive product, let alone giving it any recommendations.

【Cybertron Cloud Drive】 therefore did not attract much attention; 24 hours after passing the review on PC platforms like 'Computer Home' and 'Search Software', the number of downloads and installations was a pitiful fourteen or fifteen.

However, what was astonishing was that on 'Search Software'—a platform that was the first in the country to introduce a software rating mechanism and was known for its users' notoriously sharp and mean-spirited comments—there were already a few reviews about 【Cybertron Cloud Drive】.

The rating mechanism of 'Search Software' used ten points as the best and one point as the worst.

What was surprising was that although 【Cybertron Cloud Drive】 only had nine downloads, it had obtained an average score of 8.7, and the lowest rating given by a downloading user was 7 points.

In the user comment section below, five out of the nine downloading users had actually left comments. Among them, a 'Search Software' platform user with the screen name 【Gucheng Qingyu】 wrote: "Yibai Cloud Drive has started throttling speeds even for paid members, forcing people to top up and upgrade to super members. In a fit of anger, I uninstalled Yibai Cloud Drive. I originally wanted to browse 'Search Software', but I didn't expect to accidentally see this newly listed cloud drive product. Out of curiosity, I downloaded it to take a look, and as a result, I was immediately hooked. I must give it a full-score recommendation! 【Private Mode】, 【Share Mode】, and 【Confidential Mode】—these three modes are very interesting. I suggest everyone give them a try!"

User 【lamu】 also gave high praise: "The new cloud drive is just great; there is no speed limit for downloading or uploading. The three modes are very interesting. I chose 【Confidential Mode】. I didn't expect that although the cloud drive popped up some prompts during the upload, it didn't stop me from uploading movies and video works with controversial copyrights to the cloud drive and downloading them from it, it just doesn't provide sharing services. Must give a like and a good review. The only regret is that this cloud drive seems to be charging fees in the future, and the cloud storage provided is too small; for now, it only has 1T of capacity!"

This netizen's comment received four likes. Below the comment section, one could also see users' confusion; someone simply asked where the developer of 【Cybertron Cloud Drive】—Cybertron Technology Company—had popped out from, and how they had never heard of it before.

Although it received some good reviews, the download volume of 【Cybertron Cloud Drive】 was really too small, so it did not cause any impact.

For such a small piece of software, if it only relied on word-of-mouth, it would still take some time to become popular.

Unfortunately, Sun Cheng clearly would not stay in the real world for too long. He still had a tough battle to fight in the other world. Even if his career in reality was also an effort for his overall development later on, the time he could spare was still too little.

So much so that four days after the cloud drive was uploaded to major platforms, after checking the company's backend, Sun Cheng found that the current number of downloading users 【Cybertron Cloud Drive】 had obtained from dozens of PC and mobile platforms was only two or three hundred, and he had already lost his patience.

"... The company's promotion needs to keep up. Manager Wang, I am assigning you a Task: within one month, I want to see our user count exceed the one-million mark."

Two months—this was the time Sun Cheng planned to stay in reality this time, and so far, nearly a quarter of it had already passed.

Wang Lu looked at Sun Cheng with a face full of difficulty, his brows almost knotted into a ball.

"General Manager Sun, developing a million users in one month. Not to mention whether our Server and bandwidth can keep up, just the development of new users requires a massive amount of money burning... advertising, promotion, and dealing with the internet trolls of competitors who might pop up at any time, forgive me for being blunt, it's very difficult..."

Indeed, in the era of mobile internet, everything is possible.

For example, some social software that plays on the edge and uses the name of making friends could see their download volume surge by millions overnight.

However, those who can create legends are always just a minority. Even some internet giants in the country relied on years, or even over a decade, of bit-by-bit accumulation to have today's glory.

However, problems that can be solved with money are not problems.

Sun Cheng was not prepared to play it safe. Time waits for no one, and he could only take a shortcut.

"In the financial account, I will allocate another two million in special funds, all to be used for the promotion of new users. Platform advertisements, hiring internet trolls for promotion, etc., you handle it... There is definitely pressure, and I also hope you can turn it into motivation. You and I both know our product; as long as we survive the initial stage, it will be smooth sailing when the Mall opens..."

After persuading him with kind words for a long while, Wang Lu finally gritted his teeth and accepted the Task.

Sun Cheng also felt a sense of relief. Even with a miraculous encounter, to put it bluntly, he was just a human who was a bit different; being omniscient and omnipotent was simply nonsense.

However, although he handed the Task of promoting the company's products to Wang Lu, Sun Cheng was not idle.

That night, after returning to his apartment from the company, Sun Cheng went back to his bedroom, walked straight to the all-in-one machine that Revenge had transformed into, and frowned as he issued an order to it.

"Revenge, connect to the internet, query the data of the 【Pure Version XP System】 saved in your database to obtain the highest authority, and then scan how many backdoor responses there are across the entire network!"

A long time ago, in order to verify his own abilities, Sun Cheng had tried to perform a major streamlining and adaptation of Microsoft's XP system. He not only deleted a large amount of useless plugins and code, but also optimized the operating interface, and even some software that came with Microsoft was deleted by him and replaced with a few better-to-use software.

Later, in order to earn popularity for himself, he uploaded this new system, which he named 【Pure Version XP】, to the largest XP exchange website in the country—XP Home.

He remembered that the last time he returned to the real world, XP Home had even contacted him for authorization.

Out of the idea of advertising for 【Cybertron Studio】, Sun Cheng did indeed agree to authorize XP Home, allowing them to use his work at will.

But the premise was that whether it was for promotion inside or outside the website, or when burning discs for sale, they must indicate that the work was produced by 【Cybertron Studio】, must not erase the logo, and must not remove the producer information he embedded in the installation package.

In that 【Pure Version XP】 system, just like Microsoft and other operating system developers, Sun Cheng also left a backdoor, a backdoor with extremely high authority, just to wait for this day.

Now, it was time to use it.

After receiving his order, the screen of the all-in-one machine that Revenge had transformed into on the computer desk flickered with waves of light. After lasting for nearly thirty seconds, its familiar mechanical voice finally sounded.

"Master, the highest authority has been activated. Through link investigation, it is confirmed that there are 3.19 million backdoor responses across the entire network..."

"Very good!"

Sun Cheng's spirit couldn't help but lift. It had only been a short month or so, and he didn't expect that XP Home had actually helped him develop so many users of the Pure Version XP System nationwide.

Although it was a bit underhanded, this time, in order to develop rapidly, he had no choice but to borrow the hand of this system to run a wave of advertisements!