The Growth Process Of A Campus Website

Three years after my graduation from University, I wrote this on the basis of the recent question which has been frequently asked by my classmates, friends and investors.

Write it here today, and share it with everyone.

This is the beginning of December 2004. Thanks for being a student of a Music Association, he gave me inspiration.

The Music Association often held some campus friends' club. He asked me if I had a website for college students in Guizhou on that day, and I wanted to publish some friends' information on the Internet, because every time they go to colleges and universities to put up posters, the cost is very high and the result is not very good.

In the Internet industry, mixed up in the Internet field in the early days of Guizhou, it is a little famous because it has already made a website of Guizhou IT, and has also taken some enterprise websites to earn some living expenses. After he said this, he thought, "it seems that I have never seen a website in Guizhou which is aimed at college students. For helping students find resources, I started to search for" Guizhou campus "," Guizhou university student "," Guizhou student "and" Guizhou University ". (at first 3721 very good), there was no record on the left side, there were some UNIVERSITY HOMEPAGE on the right side, and then went to GOOGLE search, no, Baidu didn't, so I was surprised: why? At the beginning, I did not work hard at school, but I studied architecture.

Is it true that a college student is such a large and concentrated group that no one thinks he has commercial value?

With his astonishment and joy, he took the book to the bed (from the poor family in the countryside), and I had to earn money for myself outside the house. At the beginning, he made some websites for some enterprises in Guizhou to earn some money. At that time, the IT website was also a local gateway. The owner himself found it, and the price was not bad. An enterprise website could earn 3000-5000. So it cost 9600 yuan to buy a Compaq 2100, and the first year of work was stolen in the office.

Looking at these key words, I think: I can make a campus website myself.

Then look at the campus website ChinaREN, the Chinese student network and so on. After pondering, they decided to make a Guizhou campus portal.

Then began to inquire the domain name in business China (mainly because of business domain name support in China), and later found a suitable domain name www.forStu.com for college students, which is for students to decide that the website name is called Guizhou campus network.

Then began to work overtime, stay up late and skipping classes, two days of the interface design plus mobile easy system became a website, he found some related articles posted on the Internet, then found my music association's classmates, and he said clearly that at present, Guizhou has not yet a website for college students, made a self, hope they support.

Two weeks later, Hang Tianqi is coming. This time, their propaganda is mainly based on posters, plus an online media support. It is my website Guizhou campus network. The website has taken a big place in the poster. All the pictures and songs of Hang Tianqi have been put on the website in advance, and online booking has been taken, and posted on the school forum. The popularity of the website has soared, and because of the publicity of the network, the event has been held successfully.

The new semester starts, because the website will send students a letter of appointment to me as their network secretary, mainly the management student forum.

Yes, but because this year is my senior year, internship, graduation design and many other things, so I had to invite a few Internet users who are more active in school to join the student union network department, and ask them to do a good job together with the student forum.

Because they all love the Internet and talk about it. The students' forum is quite satisfactory. They often join in the activities of "network media support" with my Guizhou campus network.

At that time, the two websites were widely known.

The students are going to graduate soon, and their classmates are busy working for a job. I have no idea to think about it because I no longer want to work in this field.

Later, I went to a software company to do the development (P2P streaming media was playing well, and I stayed there for almost a year). I missed my alma mater after work, so I wanted to go back to school, but I had no chance.

After leaving campus, based on the traditional mode of Guizhou campus network, the conditions at that time could no longer be returned to school operation. It was not realistic to invite students to do so. Later, an educational institution came up with 50 thousand acquisitions. At that time, I was a bit excited, but later I thought, I like campus too much, so I decided not to sell it.

When WEB2.0 was just beginning to rise, I began to think that there should be a lot of school friends who missed my alma mater like me after leaving school, so they really missed campus friends, so they began to plan a campus website based on Web2.0. The website was mainly designed to provide a platform for every college student to record their wonderful campus life anytime and anywhere. At the same time, students and alumni could communicate with each other, leaving memories after graduation. At first, the idea was so simple.

He began to develop in his spare time, and a month later the new version of Guizhou campus network was launched.

However, due to busy work, the new version has not done much promotion, and there are not many registered users. Instead, more QQ developers are involved in Web2.0.

Not long ago, I unwittingly found a web site similar to my Guizhou campus network, feeling very good, and also registered a number to see to do well, that is to use too little, like making friends, and so on.

It wasn't long before the 5Q campus network appeared. It was still a product of Thousand Oaks. This began to feel a sense of crisis. Why did so many people suddenly start to look at the campus?

After a while, I received a call from 5Q and asked me if I had any idea to work with my company. At that time, I felt depressed.

When I was in the merger of 5Q and, I began to quit my job and wanted to run the campus network well, so I stayed at home to make some improvements and improve some functions.

One day, a colleague called to ask if he wanted to start a company and start a business.

That night, to see investors, talk more smoothly, hit it off and decide to make a video website, that is, later in China's micro video industry has a considerable influence of the famous network, to Chengdu began the first venture, the development of Guizhou campus network came to an end.

In Chengdu, it has just arrived in a new city with few friends and unfamiliar terrain, so it seldom goes out to play. Many weekends are in the office, occasionally opening the beloved campus network to see that users upload photos, write logs, leave words and feel very happy. Some students who do not want to register in Guizhou want to register, because the registration interface is only the colleges and universities in Guizhou, so they can only ask QQ.

After that, why should the campus network be confined to Guizhou?

Chengdu college students are more active. There are so many college students in the country. Why can't they register as our users?

So the Guizhou campus network was opened to the whole country and renamed the worry free campus network, which meant that every university student could be more worried on campus.

Many reflect the meaning of the domain name www.forstu.com is, but not very good, so registered www.51xyw.com worry free campus network homonym domain name (later confirmed that the choice of the domain name is right), opened the national university student registration window.

After more than a year of micro video service in Chengdu, the video website has to be nationalized. Physically and mentally exhausted, I went back to Guiyang to see my alma mater, visit my classmates and friends and my former business partners. I want to calm down and try to do well in the campus network without worry, and aspire to be a favorite website for college students.

At that time, although the campus network was doing well, it occupied nearly half of the college students, and the occupying network was not bad. FaceBook entered China.

But I firmly believe that as long as we do our best to make the difference, we will not be a competitor to the campus network, but a good partner to jointly promote the campus market.

In the past one or two months, the lack of some functions of the website has been improved in an all-round way. The rapid increase in the number of loyal and active users is particularly gratifying. At the same time, with the coming of "job hunting" and "worry free training", we believe that the worry free campus network will soon take off.

Wen / Mo Bingshen