139.me Chuang Fuzhi: Application developer is mobile Internet lead

For cars in Beijing, it is a hassle to inquire about the license plate tail daily. Now, there is a free mobile phone software to solve this problem.

Half a month ago, a "Beijing Tail Limited" software appeared on the App Store, and its developers from Baoding, Hebei province, a named "139.me" team. On 139.me's website, they introduce themselves-we are the best iphone software development team in China.

In fact, 139.me is such a simple technical small team, a belief that "application developers are mobile internet lead" team.

"Beijing Tail Limit Line"

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139.me CEO Zhu Lianching, who has just reached the age of 35, was awarded an award for ACM (International College Student Program Design contest). 11 years ago in 1999, Zhu Lianching from Hebei University, after graduating from computer science, in Baoding only one year to quit the "stable job", embarked on the road to entrepreneurship.

In November 2006, Zhu Lianching to the same in the ACM won award of the younger brother Valley update, Wu composed of 139.me. That year, the valley renewal and Wu also went to Hebei University.

Zhu Lianching said that the 139.me was first established to develop online games, but two years later in 2008, he found the company's poor profitability, and began to look for a new way out.

An accidental opportunity, Zhu Lianching attended Apple's iphone developer training in Beijing and discovered the huge business opportunities in the App Store.

"There were only 1500 apps in the App Store, but there were 15 million users in the iphone and ipod," he said. Zhu Lianching said, seeing such a clear market, 139.me began to become attached to Apple, to make the iphone application development.

Initially, 139.me made some small software, although not much profit, but there are many outsourcing business initiative to come to the door. Later, 139.me picked up some outsourcing games from Japan and the United States and made some money. "But Zhu Lianching thinks," outsourcing business can only be regarded as extra income, not much help to the development of the team. ”

So, from March 2009 onwards, 139.me decided to do the original development of the iphone software.

139.me to become the App store million download star developers, is a game software-colorful aquarium, a simulation class application, divided into custom fish, custom props, Tools menu and set menu, it can make iphone/ipodtouch/ The ipad becomes a custom aquarium.

"Colorful Aquarium"

May 2009, "Colorful aquarium" online immediately after the launch of Red, and ranked top of the App Store entertainment, the first day of sales of more than 300 U.S. dollars.

After 3 months on line, the "colorful aquarium" was downloaded more than 1 million times by users in 80 countries worldwide. 4 months after the launch, the 2.99 dollar game has earned more than millions of dollars. Now, with only this software, 139.me can be credited 1000 dollars a day.

"Colorful Aquarium" appeared on the official ipad video in January 2010, and in May, the ipad version of "Colorful Aquarium" was rated Apple employees ' favorites and placed on the App Store homepage. But Apple employees may not know that the software is a small team of less than 20 people in Baoding, Hebei province, China.

Zhu Lianching said, "139.me of each software, from the creative, planning, art, coding every aspect of the work done for the impact of the list of the App Store to do." ”

Zhu Lianching Frankly, because domestic mobile phone users are more interested in free software, so the majority of 139.me software is based on the needs of foreign users to design. However, 139.me is also developing some free software, such as the "Beijing Tail line" described earlier.

Return to school "blood transfusion"

Because there is no professional planners, 139.me development and entrepreneurship are all by the team internal staff to think out. Zhu Lianching said that several of his friends in the United States and Britain would provide some information and ideas as a "market planner" for foreign aid.

Zhu Lianching said that in the 139.me Baoding Studio has a creative wall, good ideas can be affixed to the wall. After the best ideas are screened and proven, the technical team and the art team plan the idea and write the planning document.

The next part of the work will be divided into two parts at the same time-the fine arts group began to design documents, the program development team began coding, and finally the synthesis of a software. After rigorous testing, the software can be submitted to Apple for review.

While focusing on iphone software development, 139.me is also taking on the outsourcing of iphone apps, gaming and Android apps. In addition, 139.me is trying to build a "3G dream Factory".

At present, for the growing volume of business is unable to undertake the 139.me, talent is the most urgently needed. Zhu Lianching said, "3G dream Factory" is actually 139.me training software development talent of a plan.

"Unlike the 2G-era SP, CP, in the mobile internet era, application developers are the real protagonists in providing content." "The 139.me" 3G Dream Factory "will be a winning" people-building program, "Zhu Lianching said, and will also enter new blood for itself while excavating and nurturing software development talent.

The team comes from universities and their dream factories will return to college. Currently, 139.me has begun to contact several universities, including Hebei University, and plans to set up a "3G Dream Factory" on campus.

It is reported that college students to enter the dream factory in the initial stage will be paid in the form of the iphone, Android, SNS development training, the second phase can undertake outsourcing projects or with 139.me cooperation development projects. Zhu Lianching said that students entering the "3G Dream Factory" can be signed into the form of first training, training costs can be outsourced after the project from the divided into installments.

"There is a C language Foundation, we teach you application development; know art, we teach you UI design, creative, we help you make products." "At DreamWorks, you're not learning, you're starting a business," Zhu Lianching said. ”