The love of Entrepreneurship is limited: I am a free application excavator

"Single point application is just an application, it is easy to drown, and we want to become a application of the growth of the soil, so as to the endless."　　"This is the Broad Bean network CTO Li Yankiang's understanding of mobile Internet applications."　　Also because of this, in August this year, Li Yankiang from Germany, began to make an application, called "Love Free", specifically looking for the Apple App Store in the limited time free applications, and their timely recommendation to the user.　　Look around iOS device users, almost everyone will have a limited time free application software, this type of software in China, how much chance? Li Yankiang that because the App Store server is not in the country, the domestic iphone users are generally facing the problem of slow download and payment.　　And because of China's user habits, users are particularly sensitive to price, but users lack access to information free of charge channels. "As long as we can find it in the App Store, we have all the search, and all the information is localized for you," he said. This requirement is clearly visible.　　"Li Yankiang said. time-limited Free is not the original bean net. Before that, there were already some free mobile apps available for limited time.　　Broad Bean net again dabble in this field still can play what pattern?　　At that time, Li Yankiang found that some manufacturers have been doing free of charge, the daily availability of free application of the number of the level of about 200 or more, or 300. By contrast, iphone apps in the App Store are about 480,000, and the ipad app is about 120,000. "We have all the information to dig out, found that the daily limit to 5000-6000 applications, so far, the market has not yet similar manufacturers to do this level."　　"With the use of" human flesh search "restrictions on software, Li Yan Chuan used a large" excavator. " "We have built a private cloud of 90 servers around the world, scanning the app store in 123 countries to ensure that the software is free for users to see anytime." The whole process of the first step from abroad to crawl information, and then the flow back home. Pre-machine analysis, artificial screening later.　　Li Yankiang said that the 90 servers are not enough, because in the future to recommend to users, the number of servers in the monthly rate of 30 units to grow.　　"Love is free" This October officially online, two months online, has 100,000 active users, daily use about 30,000 users. Li Yankiang says the team is hard, but every day is full of surprises. "We look at the user time, just at the beginning of our user time is very short, now the average user time has been the initial peak in the early October out of 4-5 times." User startup times also increased, the average user time is also growing, this is a surprise.　　"In addition to the iOS system, Li Yankiang's team is actually targeting the Android market, but he believes that doing it on the Android market for free is not workable." What can I do?　　He believes that in the Chinese market, many Android applications in foreign countries is to charge, to the domestic third-party market becomes free, in the process of transformation, the third party will embed some advertising code to steal the user's personal privacy. "We want to get into the security piece. Hope to provide some solutions, the user's mobile phone information and application use of the scene hook, in a real use of the scene, once found that some application requests should not be requested, or the user does not know what we will cut it off, or to give users a hint to make their own choices.　　"Li Yankiang said.　　The idea of an Android application solution is still brewing, and there is no product.　　Like many developers, Li Yankiang that the most important thing now is to accumulate a user base and not consider a profit model for the time being. Li Yankiang is enjoying this entrepreneurial process, "never tried to lead a small team into such a global information mining, so there are many surprises every day." When an application does help the user solve the problem, or make him happy every day, in fact, I feel successful.　　"(Xiu Qian) The following is the interview record: Host Zong:" How did you think of the first to do a limited free collection? Li Yankiang: The original intention of doing this is for domestic users to pay in the App Store, download slow. Many users have this experience, open the iphone application search half a day to come out, and download particularly slow. So we made this application so that we can search the iphone as soon as we can, and all the information will help you localize it.　　This requirement is clearly visible. We often look at users have some habits, as long as the see free happy, no matter what application first to download down, but the lack of access to free information channels.　　We thought that if we had such an application, we would be able to display the free time available, especially if the domestic users were particularly sensitive to the price, we would just come back and do it.　　Moderator Zong: Limited-timed free seems to give developers a few benefits of the split, developers are really welcome to avoid? Li Yankiang: Now the App Store has changed a little bit from five years ago, when it was a new world, and it was easy for the grassroots to succeed, because you could use the App Store channel to put apps in front of you.　　Now with the advent of the App Store, big companies are entering the industry, with fewer opportunities for small developers, big games and big apps in front of the charts. This time in fact many applications in foreign countries to do the distribution, foreign professional to do the distribution of consulting companies have such awareness, when your application to the App Store, they will give you a series of strategies, one is to do the limit. Many developers are also trying to do different marketing tools, one of the means to avoid. It took his application for free one day, and within a day he would find his users ' numbers exploding and then resuming. Many developers hope that within this day their applications will be asKind of company included, so that it can provide a way to list.　　Because of the long tail effect, many applications in addition to limit the day into the list, and then submerged, through the limit, they will have a lot of opportunities to come back to their own, once he charges, it will increase in the charge list above the ranking.　　Everyone's interest is not the same, everyone needs a different list to find their own hobbies, if only through the App Store to provide a few lists, the way is very dead, many applications can not see, through such applications as we are able to see many other applications, in the official see the application.　　Moderator Zong: What advantages do you have for free limited application applications than other software? Li Yankiang: The App Store's channel is unique to Android, and now has branches in 123 countries because its application is incredibly large, with about 480,000 apps for the iphone in the App Store, where we're not first-time people, There are already a number of vendors doing this, and they provide a daily quantity of about 10 to hundreds.　　More than 200 or 300-400. At that time, we had an idea to see if we could dig out all the free applications.　　The results found that all of them, found that the daily limit of 5000-6000 applications, we found that no one in the market to do this level, so our confidence came.　　Moderator Zong: What is the difference between specific and other? Li Yankiang: I find that other homes are doing too slowly.　　We have often encountered such a situation, a situation is a lot of time from other restrictions on the software is free when open, and so you come home from work it is not free. The second scenario is that there are actually too many applications in the App Store, which has a long tail effect. A lot of things are in the tail of the last side, the general user can not find.　　Unlike other artificial digs, we are now all machines.　　Moderator Zong: How much do you invest now?　　Li Yankiang: We have deployed 90 machines around the world, App store applications are scanned by server clusters to ensure that the software is free for users to see at any time. The whole process is from abroad to crawl information, transfer information to the domestic. Pre-machine analysis, artificial screening later. What we're trying to do is to meet the preferences of different users, and when we do a list, we want it to be more than just a copy of the App Store list, and we hope that in the future we will be able to match the individual preferences.　　Moreover, many applications are in English, for domestic users, they want to see the Chinese profile, so we have 10 of people's team, non-stop daily translation, the application of the localization of the introduction.　　Host Zong: Are these 90 machines enough now, will it increase later? Li Yankiang: We're going to add 30 units to the left almost every month.Right。　　Host Zong: Will not be based on the user to download something to do an analysis, and then will recommend to me some suitable for me or I often go to download? Li Yankiang: According to the user downloaded things, according to the user's region, what is popular today to do comb. We now have 90 machines, it not only carried out the App Store and analysis crawl, the world many forums and websites, media materials are analyzed, and finally it provides us with some data editors, such as the number of downloads, a lot of original data, such as everyone playing the most games, the most discussed is the application,　　This information will be provided to our editorial team for further work. Moderator Zong: Sort is manual?　　Will there be some sort of human adjustment? Li Yankiang: No.　　Love is not the default is the order of machines, we are only some of the application of the simple management.　　Moderator Zong: If you are the ranking of the person, this is a business model, do you think?　　Li Yankiang: We want to do something that everyone thinks is interesting and won't think about it.　　Moderator Zong: How many users are there now? Li Yankiang: We are on line for 1.5 months, now have 100,000 activation quantity, every day about 30,000 users. We are also constantly adjusting, hope to be able to make different users satisfied.　　In the next version, I will be completely specific to your personal preferences, or your region's preferences, to make personalized recommendations, we will do it.　　Moderator Zong: When is the next version? Li Yankiang: Within 1.5 months.　　The spring Festival can be seen before and after.　　Host Zong: Do you work with developers? Li Yankiang: A while ago we worked with developers to do a number of joint restrictions, in the future will do more joint restrictions on activities, can also release the active version.　　I think it's a winning model.　　Host Zong: You are on the PC site called Broad Bean Net, now in addition to iOS platform, Android platform is also in preparation, based on what kind of considerations? Li Yankiang: We want to be a mobile platform of various terminal types. In doing this, it starts with a small point. The domestic Android Market, the third party market too much, very confusing, including copyright issues. In fact, Google's Android Market, the rate of charge is similar to the App Store. However, in the Chinese market, a lot of applications abroad is the charge, to the domestic third party market becomes free, foreign developers tell us that the application is not at all authorized at home, but the domestic third-party market to find their free version.　　In the process of transformation, they will add some advertising code, will steal the user's personal privacy. Android and the iphone are very different, there are many sources of Android downloads, there is no download slow the problem, are free, there is no payment difficult problem. So it's not easy to copy iOS to Androi.D platform.　　We want to get into the security piece.　　We would like to provide some solutions to link the user's information on his phone with his specific usage scenarios, in a specific use scenario, once you find something that the application request should not be asked for, or what the user does not know, we cut it off, or give the user a hint to make the choice, and we want to do it.　　Moderator Zong: Now is just an idea? Li Yankiang: We're trying. is now being implemented internally.　　not fully materialized.　　Moderator Zong: Each developer platform provider will face this problem, how to consider the profitability model? Li Yankiang: We haven't considered the profit model at the moment, we just want to do something interesting at the right time.　　We first use the platform to attract enough users, and then make some products, this part of the user into our profitable products. Moderator Zong: Many application developers will be installed capacity to achieve how many million as a standard of success, how do you think?　　What are the goals? Li Yankiang: When an application does help the user solve the problem, or make him happy every day, I actually think it's successful. We look at the user time, at the beginning of our user time is very short, now the average user time has been the initial peak in the early October out of 4-5 times.　　It's a surprise that the number of users opened up every day and the average user time is growing. Among them, we also get a lot of fun, before we have never tried so many people, so small a team to control the application of globalization, so there are many surprises every day. Look at the user often search some content, we also feel particularly interesting, users will not search long name, he will only search 1-2 words.　　In China, users search most of the "planting". We often see what users like to search most applications, we will put these applications continue to the front row, to meet this part of the user's preferences, so that users save a little time, less time even a little.