"Ten years ago, you want to find someone to build a website, the other side of the price openings is 20,000, now you want to build a website, cheap less than 100 dollars can be done, like foreign WordPress and domestic discuz! This kind of open source project makes it easy for users to build personal websites or community forums. Now the mobile Internet is much like the PC Internet of ten years ago, the cost of developing an app is generally high, but there are some entrepreneurial teams that provide basic services-such as pushing, pushing, doing, sharing, sharesdk doing; Instant Messaging is the fourth bastion that has yet to be breached. "--Ring letter Instant Messenger Cloud CEO Liu Junyan
The team of the ring letter instant Messaging Cloud ("ring letter") has found that with the increasing number of apps available on the market and the increasing demand for one-to-one personalized communication in some industries, instant messaging (IM) is becoming standard for some apps. Social apps require IM functionality without saying, mobile education app needs to bridge the communication between teachers and students, mobile medical app needs to support doctor-patient communication, Life service type app (such as business, real estate intermediary, etc.), enterprise collaboration platform, hand Tour app also has the request of the built-in IM function.
The mobile IM function is only a basic service function supporting the core business, not the core competence, for the aforementioned non-social app According to the Ring letter CEO Liu Junyan said, now on the market, developers to develop their own mobile IM threshold high, at least 9 months to do more presentable.
The ring letter is doing, is to package mobile communication technology into a simple API interface, developers download the Ring Letter SDK, add a few lines of code in the app can be called by the corresponding API interface with similar micro-letter Im functions, including point-to-point communication and 500~2000 people chat, to shorten the app development cycle. At present, the ring letter support Android, IOS, web and other mobile platforms, support Tens users online, and optimize the security, traffic compression, power savings, high concurrency and so on. According to Liu Junyan revealed that the Ring letter SDK has been developed for 1 years, the end of October last year began in 20 customers on the inside, the product continued to Polish 7 months later this June 1 officially online, 10 days has been embedded nearly 100 app.
As for that, the ring letter how to ensure that the mobile IM function can keep abreast of the customer's product iteration speed, and the formation of competition barriers, Liu Junyan stressed the "open source" concept. On the one hand, the ring letter team will be able to understand the market to compare the fire of mobile IM function, for example, burn after reading, sound recordings, anonymous social and so on, and rapid development of these up-to-date functions on the line, on the other hand, the Ring letter team will open up other than their core technology other mobile IM functions, in addition to the aforementioned functions, Ring Letter SDK On the line also provides a variety of styles of UI templates and source code; In addition, when there are enough developers on the platform, the ring letter also wants to encourage developers to open up some of the mobile IM functions at the right time for future generations.
Ring Letter Team currently has 14 people, 4 founders on average with more than 15 years of mobile IM-related technology research and development experience, from Redhat, Nokia, Polycom and other companies, respectively, focusing on server-side direction, database direction, mobile operating system direction and mobile data communication direction. CEO Liu Junyan has 17 research and development experience, the main server-side direction, has been working in software companies Iona Technologies and Redhat, two companies have the tradition of supporting open source software.
The ring letter has been funded by the "Krypton Plus" start-up company financing platform.