Chapter 169 You will suffer a loss if you can’t buy it for $9999

Lin Hui remembered the time and space he had just before his rebirth.

A news summary algorithm program provided by a major company to medium and large enterprises that require flexible payment.

Medium and large enterprises that choose the corresponding service can have 50,000 free calls to the news summary algorithm program every day.

A free service can already do this.

It can be said that just the things provided by the free service are enough to scorn Lin Hui now that he has made this PRO version.

This time, Lin Hui’s technical staff’s perspective on the core upgrade point of Nanfeng APP, that is, the third generation of Lin Hui’s rebirth node of the generative summary algorithm, is indeed not worth mentioning.

But Lin Hui doesn’t feel guilty at all about the pricing issue on the South Wind Pro version.

Today, humans may have more than a thousand ways to make fire, but the only ones that have been recorded in history are the drilling of wood to make fire in ancient times.

This example is a bit extreme, but it also illustrates a problem:

To talk about the value of technology regardless of the times is to be a hooligan.

Even if we look at it from the perspective of the next few years, the things Lin Hui is doing now are not considered to be awesome skills.

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't stop Lin Hui from now relying on technology to cut leeks unscrupulously.

Moreover, Lin Hui has decided that just releasing the PRO version is not enough. In the future, he will go further and release an ULTRA version to generate a wave of money.

Cutting leeks is such a beautiful thing.

Although Lin Hui was very satisfied with the pricing he arranged.

But not long after this South Wind Pro version was uploaded to the app store.

Lin Hui discovered that the version uploaded this time was actually rejected. The reason for rejection was: it is recommended to modify the service price.

Lin Hui didn't quite understand that the higher the price, although his share would be indispensable, wouldn't the platform's share be equally indispensable?

Especially when it comes to software that does not belong to the game category, the split between Lin Hui and the platform is still 80%:20%.

Rather than 90%:10% like "Hill Climb Racing".

The platform has no reason to refute Lin Hui for making this PRO version?

Just when Lin Hui was wondering, Lin Hui received a call from Huang Jing.

Huang Jing and Lin Hui are now relatively familiar with each other, and Huang Jing did not make any detours after answering the phone.

Huang Jing asked directly: "Can the South Wind Pro software you created this time really improve the efficiency by 87% compared to South Wind as you said?"

Lin Hui said: "Of course, I am very confident in my algorithm, and the corresponding data has been accurately tested."

Lin Hui didn't quite understand why Huang Jing called to ask this. Huang Jing was obviously involved in the conversation between him and Eve Carly yesterday.

From yesterday's conversation with Eve Carly, Huang Jing should be able to know that when it comes to news summarization or text summarization, foreign technical teams are very backward in this regard.

Others may not know, but Huang Jing should at least know the level of Lin Hui's skills.

Huang Jing said: "I'm not questioning your ability, I'm just verifying this matter.

What I mean is that the software you launched earlier was rejected. I think that if you make the South Wind Pro software as efficient as you claimed in the introduction, then your pricing for the PRO version will be

It seems very unreasonable.

I think you can definitely increase it by 50% to 100% based on the previous pricing. I personally prefer that you go straight to the point and increase the current price by 100%."

If the price goes up by 100%, is it okay to just double it?

Huang Jing's attitude was a bit unexpected. Lin Hui originally thought that she would think the price was too high.

Price increases are indeed possible, but doubling them directly does not seem very appropriate.

After all, when it comes to the buyout price of South Wind Pro, if the previous buyout price of US$4,999 is doubled, it will be directly close to US$10,000.

Although Ugly people are wealthy, it would be difficult to expect most potential users to spend $10,000 on a product at a time.

However, Lin Hui felt that Huang Jing would definitely have her thoughts since she suggested this, so Lin Hui decided to listen to Huang Jing's suggestion.

Lin Hui said: "Tell me your reasons."

Huang Jing explained: “According to some of my previous investigations, Nanfeng APP’s biggest overseas competitor was actually the Ya/Hu News (Processing) Professional Edition.

A monthly membership of Ya/hoo News (Processing) Professional Edition costs US$99.99, which means the annual fee is close to US$1,200.

The annual fee you set previously was US$1,999. Even if it were doubled, it would only be less than US$4,000.

I remember that the efficiency of Nanfeng APP in processing news was already 241% faster than that of competing software.

And now you can see that the efficiency of the PRO version has increased by 87% year-on-year compared to the offline environment of Nanfeng APP.

If you say this, doesn’t it mean that the PRO version of Nanfeng APP is almost six times more efficient than competing software.

What's more, the accuracy of the PRO version you have now is definitely improved compared to the previous version.

According to this thinking, it doesn't matter even if the price doubles.

Users of your PRO version only need to pay more than three times the price, but they can enjoy six times the processing speed of competing software and several times the accuracy of competing software.

Even if the price is higher, it is still very attractive to potential users who are willing to pay for professional mode.

It doesn’t matter if users don’t adapt, the product is not meant to accommodate users, it’s up to the users to adapt to the product.”

Well, as expected of an Apple employee, this idea is indeed very Apple-like. They would rather sacrifice some potential users to build a brand and make profits.

As a user, not everyone likes Apple, but as a business or thinking from a business perspective, everyone seems to aspire to be Apple.

Who wouldn’t yearn for the model of making money while lying down?

Huang Jing continued: “Doubling the price will indeed directly dissuade some potential users.

But I think just because it will drive away users and lose some market share, you should do this even more."

Lin Hui's inner thoughts: Actively force users away and give up the market. What kind of operation is this?

Could it be that he is hiding his clumsiness? It seems that it can only be like this.

Sure enough, I heard Huang Jing say: "If the PRO version of Nanfeng APP enters the overseas market now at a price of US$1,999.

In this way, the price is not much higher than competing software and is supplemented by the efficiency and accuracy several times that of similar software.

It is easy to sweep the U.S. market in news summary software with overwhelming momentum.

This may be a good thing at the beginning, but it may not be so in the long run. If you do this, you will easily encounter a series of investigations such as antitrust investigations.

Judging from your previous layout, it can be seen that you are a person with great lofty ideals. I feel that there is no need for you to create branches in these places now."

Lin Hui originally thought Huang Jing's suggestion of "directly doubling the price" was inappropriate.

After hearing this, I decisively followed Huang Jing's suggestion and set the annual fee of South Wind Pro to US$3,999, and the buyout price to US$9,999.

In order to encourage the consumption enthusiasm of overseas users, Lin Hui also filled in a few sentences in the introduction of South Wind Pro:

"Offline software can be used completely in an offline environment."

This sentence should be enough to make many hesitant users pay the bill. After all, many irresponsible professional software developers often run away after getting various membership fees.

Some even removed the servers, so that many users who purchased professional software that required server support had to bear the consequences.

For offline applications, you basically don’t need to worry about this problem.

As long as users don't uninstall it, even if Lin Hui takes the software off the shelves in the future, it won't affect users' use.

In short, even if it is a buyout, there is no need to worry about the developer running away.

For $9,999, you can’t suffer a loss or be cheated.

On the contrary, users will also receive the most powerful summary processing software on the planet.

Speaking of why Lin Hui agreed to the plan proposed by Huang Jing without thinking, it was because Lin Hui felt that Huang Jing's suggestion was very reasonable.

After forming a near-monopoly in overseas markets, it is very likely to face anti-monopoly investigations.

Various things that Lin Hui witnessed in his previous life have verified Huang Jing's judgment.

The ugly countrymen are not merciful when it comes to anti-monopoly investigations of their domestic companies, let alone Lin Hui, a crooked nut.

In the next few years, various unfair antitrust investigations will become more common.

Even though under normal circumstances the subject of an antitrust investigation is a company, it is rare that an antitrust investigation involves an individual, but as the saying goes, there is no need to blame someone.

Even without resorting to antitrust investigations, various other excuses may be involved. Ugly Chinese people always have excuses if they want to cause trouble.

All in all, Lin Hui agrees with Huang Jing's statement. Before it is not strong enough, there is no need to create branches in some trivial places.

What's more, if the price of the PRO version is doubled, Lin Hui's profits will not necessarily be lost.

After adjusting the price and putting South Wind Pro online, it quickly passed the review.

After a while, Lin Hui discovered that the software South Wind Pro could be found in the overseas version of the app store.

After chatting with Huang Jing for more than ten minutes, Lin Hui got a few messages from Huang Jing.

One of the news is that the game "Hill Climb Racing" previously developed by Lin Hui has been praised by environmental protection organizations around the world.

What connection can a game have with a world environmental organization?
To be continued...