The dark Entrepreneur: The Story of the blind application developer Cao June

Large-screen, retina high-resolution, tyrants gold shell, these familiar nouns constantly refresh our mobile phone usage experience. But if you are a blind person, can you enjoy the most trendy mobile experience? How to watch the weather in the news? How to chat QQ Brush Micro Bo visit Friends Circle or even play hand tour? How can a blind person use a mobile phone? Can they enjoy "intelligence"? What can developers do for them?

There was a blind man, he sold 8 blind massage chains, sold his property and invested all his savings in research and development for the blind; Baidu, Sina, Sohu opened the source code to him, cooperated to launch the blind client, and became a member of Microsoft's cloud Acceleration project in 2012 and received Microsoft's office space and technical support. These are the stories of the blind application of "Pao Yiyue Listen" developer Cao June. Cao's core product is Pao Yiyue listening series software, mainly to solve the blind group can not use the problem of smart phones, installed on the phone after the operation of the ordinary mobile phone to the blind can be used mode. At present, Pao Yiyue listening to 80,000 of the blind users, 2010 company profit margin reached 30%, the team is also expanding.

Here is Csdn's interview with Cao June, let's get to know the legendary blind entrepreneur in advance.

Cao June

CSDN: What prompted you to develop Pao Yiyue listening software? What's the story behind it?

Cao June: That will be from the 08 Beijing Paralympic Games, I found that some blind friends around me are in love, but "see" not to send the message, and find someone to read love message is an embarrassment. I was wondering if I could do a blind phone with a menu tip, so I started to try to do a mobile phone software research and development, just started on the Symbian platform. Pao Yiyue listen to, Yue listen to let the blind people like to listen to, let listen to become a blind eye, let the world more exciting to listen to, Pao Yiyue listen to include a number of blind demand services, such as the Blind map, blind reading, blind timer, blind input method, such as a series of software. We offer a complete mobile phone solution that allows blind people to use mobile phones with a discerning eye.

CSDN: What's your main job this year?

Cao June: 1, we do a news push platform, the daily occurrence of the domestic and foreign news, through the type of SMS to the blind. 2, the introduction of positioning and navigation systems, the difference between this kind of navigation and discerning is to achieve accurate walking positioning, we and Baidu mobile cooperation. 3, in addition to Baidu navigation, we and internet companies launched a blind application, such as Sina Weibo blind clients, Baidu Input Method blind client, Sogou input method, such as blind clients. 4, do a lot of training, we release the CD through the network, but also in some regions to carry out online and offline training, hands-on teaching to the blind, how to use smartphones, how to access the Internet, how to talk about the basic application of micro-letter.

CSDN: Would you please briefly introduce Pao Yiyue to listen to the present situation? User scale?

Cao: Now our user size is about 80,000, of which 60,000 of the paid users, and almost 20,000 of the public service version of the users. Our users all over the country have, but the big cities relatively will be more, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and other big cities. Our profit model mainly has three kinds, the first kind is the individual user pays, the user will Pao Yiyue listens the series software to install on the handset, we will collect this registration fee to the user. The second is government procurement, which means that some disabled people will use this service to buy our software, or software and mobile phones, and distribute it to local blind friends. The third way is to work with operators to introduce a mobile phone that contains Pao Yiyue listening software.

Our goal is to minimize the cost of using the blind, and then add the burden to the Government, as well as the operators, because it is their responsibility.

Figure: Pao Yiyue Listening series Blind application

CSDN: What mobile Internet dynamics have you focused on this year?

Cao June: More concerned about the pattern of millet, whether from marketing, or ROM customization, software design, are more close to netizens, and I feel the most interesting is that they are playing with friends, is not a simple sales, people feel very interesting. Another is that Nokia was acquired by Microsoft, because the software we had previously done was based on the Symbian system, and last year we were transformed into Android. And Baidu push the light application, especially suitable for ordinary developers to develop some of the simplest applications. I think after the internet, even the development of mobile Internet is how fast, how easy, how simple, that this software will occupy more place.

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