A 90 Year Boy'S "Gates Dream"

Nowadays,

When we gradually believe that this is an era of capital and relationship building, please look at these young people and read their stories. Maybe we will find that we are missing a business as a way forward.

In the App Store, there is a browser called "mammoth" (Mammoth). Now it has been updated to the fourth generation. It is the most downloaded product in the browser developed by iPhone.

App Advice, an internationally renowned evaluation website, said that "mammoth 4" redefined the browser's standard; another evaluation website Techrice suggested that Apple should preinstall it on iPhone.

Who would have thought that Ji Yichao, the author of this product, turned out to be a 19 year old student.

From browser design to art, development, testing, operation and so on, all of them are independently completed by him.

Began to develop in July last year.

A crazy programmer.

Frameless glasses, sports T-shirts, jeans, sports shoes...

Ji Yichao is a typical student image.

He will have a shy feeling when he first contacts with strangers.

But this student has been working with programming for 10 years.

Because of family relationship, Ji Yichao lived and studied in the United States for several years until he was in grade two. He returned to Beijing to go to school.

At that time, the school organized a robot competition team, led the teacher to recruit him to the team.

Previously, Ji Yichao did not have the basis of robotics and computer programming, and moved the leading teacher because Ji Yichao spoke fluent English, "no need to plate in future."

In this team, Ji Yichao began to learn computer programming.

Later in junior high school, he was fascinated by the operating system.

"Because I think that's the root of computer programming."

Coupled with Bill Gate's entrepreneurial story and the influence of Linux myth, Ji Yichao completely fell in love with the research and development of the operating system.

From Windows3.1 to Vista, from Linux to BeOS, Solaris and UNIX, he has tried almost all operating systems.

"All crazy programmers are dreaming of making an operating system."

Looking back on this story, Ji Yichao said with a smile that he was "young and frivolous".

In many systems, apple computer, which combines software and hardware, makes Ji Yichao deeply impressed.

"When I saw the apple system, I knew what an elegant and useful operating system is."

He started using the programming language from the boot sector.

Later, he had Apple products such as iPod, iTouch, Macbook, iPhone and so on. Ji Yichao also had a new identity -- Apple application developer.

In high school, he developed 7 software, and the cheapest one sold 300 dollars.

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No problem, no sleep.

In the summer of 2009, Ji Yichao, who had just finished his sophomore year, set out to develop browsers for mobile terminals.

In his view, some browsers on the market were "weak" at that time.

The experience of browsers launched by well-known enterprises is not bad, but its functions are too weak and pedantic. However, the browsers developed by some small businesses or individual developers have various functions, but the operation is complex and the sense of experience is poor.

Ji Yichao's idea is to develop a fast multi page browser, which has many functions, but it has to carry out all functions with one finger, one touch and one lift.

In 7 and August, he began writing test procedures to verify the feasibility of the technology.

After the third year of high school, he began to concentrate on programming, and released the final version of "mammoth 1" in November.

For every third year student, learning is very busy.

The development of mammoth 1 took up a lot of time for Ji Yichao. He often drew sketches and ideas in class, and began to write code after returning to the dormitory.

As long as there are unfinished ideas or codes and drawings in the daytime, he will feel unpractical in his bed.

"Gao San was very happy when he debugged at 3:30 in the morning for a Bug (vulnerability)."

This habit of not trying to solve problems has been maintained until now.

The work of design, art, development and testing was undertaken by one person, which made Ji Yichao happy and painful.

"You need both programming and interface art."

Ji Yichao says that a program often changes and the interface needs to be changed, so he often switches back and forth between programming and Photoshop (a mapping software).

"When I was young, I lived in the United States, and I was influenced by many heroism. I was very naive. But the story of Bill Gate and others made me feel that this is not impossible."

Fortunately, parents and school teachers are more open-minded and do not regard Ji Yichao as an alien. "Otherwise, I can not persist until now."

In December 2010, Ji Yichao officially released the "mammoth 1" at Apple store.

This version already has the rudiment of mammoth multi page framework, with simple tabular bookmarks and historical records, and several commonly used functions, such as night mode, picture mode, search and plation within pages, etc.

Without any promotion, there will be 42 downloads on the first day, and the first show of mammoth 1 will be very successful.

In February 2011, Ji Yichao spent a month collecting user feedback, adding a collection wall, page preview and other functions to the mammoth.

At the end of March, "mammoth 3" was released, creating 3 days and 120 thousand downloads.

Users have a high degree of praise for the software, and only more than 800 evaluations have been made in the app store in China.

I want the perfect "mammoth 4".

In June 8, 2011, the second day after the college entrance examination, Ji Yichao sat in front of the computer again.

He wants to create the most perfect "mammoth 4" in his dream.

"From technology, interaction and fine arts, we must overturn traditional mobile browsers."

4 months later, "mammoth 4" was officially released.

The reporter tried out the mammoth 4 browser by downloading.

After login, the interface is mainly black and white, with strong sense of technology.

The 12 collection columns are neatly distributed on the homepage, which is concise and intuitive.

There are three small points in the middle of the bottom sliding module. Sliding upward can slide out a shortcut menu, and from left to right are three functions of "Refresh", "Tabs menu bar" and "close" respectively.

If you want to close this page, your fingers just slide to the "Close" icon, then release, and the page can be easily closed.

The whole process was accomplished by "sliding" without any clicks.

In other browsers, an operation usually needs to be clicked for several times to complete.

This is just one of the advantages of mammoth 4.

According to the size of the user's finger tip, we can optimize the comfortable operation, two-dimensional rolling bookmarks and time tunnel history, seamless reading progress iCloud reading list.

This series of innovations "capture" the hearts of many mobile Internet users.

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At first, "mammoth 4" only had two versions of Chinese and English, but some users sent mail after using it, willing to provide free plation for German, French and other multilingual versions.

At present, "mammoth 4" supports 7 languages, and the price is around 12 yuan.

At present, the daily downloads are between 100 and 200.

According to Apple's share, Ji Yichao can earn 1000 to 2000 yuan a day.

The recognition of the industry is more convincing.

At a mobile developer's meeting, Internet Express CEO, cool disk investor and chairman Huang Mingming met Ji Yichao.

Huang Mingming later sent micro-blog to say, "true hero is a teenager! Tell him I am his fan. When I was in high school, I sold it at best."

Angel investor Xue man Zi, the popular game "World War II storm" producer Beijing digital hard rock Wireless Technology Co., Ltd. CEO Wu Gang, all marvel at Ji Yichao and his "mammoth 4".

Some well-known companies and investors have found Ji Yichao, hoping to buy Ji Yichao's project or invest in him.

But Ji Yichao explicitly rejected all investments.

"If there is investment, it means making profits.

I clearly wrote in the browser's slogan, refused all ads, I do not want to appear any advertising.

Ji Yichao said he might choose to start a business in the future, but he would never make browsers again.

Micro file

Name: Ji Yichao

Age: 19 years old

Gender: Male

Now he is a freshman in a university in Beijing.

Born in Beijing, studied and lived in the United States for 3 years, and returned to Beijing in grade two.

The development of Apple apps in senior high school has launched the "mammoth 1" browser in the third year of senior high school and launched the mammoth 4 browser in the big time.

At present, the daily downloads are between 100 and 200 times, and are the most downloaded products in the browser developed by iPhone, with an average daily gain of between 1000 yuan and 2000 yuan.

Micro evaluation

In September this year, at the 2011 world apple conference held in Shanghai, "mammoth 4" was selected as one of the two top prizes.

When everyone talks carefully about the so-called micro innovation and Shanzhai, I prefer to believe that Superman exists. Youth is the grave digger of those crafty and crafty.

Do not stain them with the common customs.

A dream of a high school student.

Beijing digital hard rock Wireless Technology Co., Ltd., CEO Wu Gang

True hero is a teenager! I am a fan of him. When I was in high school, I sold and sold the New Year card at best.

Internet Express CEO, cool disk investor and chairman Huang Mingming

We've studied the mammoth browser, which is too great. Compared with mammoth, other browsers are totally useless.

Chen Cheng, customer manager of NetEase online portal Division