Only After I Was Reborn Did I Realize That I Had Childhood Sweethearts Chapter 121 – Strategic Planning

The early days of Apple’s App Store were marked by rapid and unregulated growth, featuring both good and bad apps, and where a finely crafted ga could easily get recomnded.

Before this, i Fang’s Flappy Bird had been featured on the App Store twice, and prior to the third ti, it had already accumulated over 10,000 downloads.

When Flappy Bird was featured for the third ti in the App Store, it happened to coincide with two major events.

The first event was the official release of iPhone 4, a model that, compared to its enhanced version 4S, could not be considered a highly successful masterpiece. It was also heavily criticized due to the Antennagate incident.

However, it brought iPhone’s sales close to 40 million units, and it truly opened the door to the Chinese market, leading countless people in China to beco enthusiastic about the “exchange a kidney for a set of three iPhones” .

The second event was the official surpassing of Yahoo by the well-known social dia platform Facebook in terms of website traffic, making it the second-largest website in Arica, only after Google.

The success of Facebook also demonstrated the imnse strength and future prospects of social dia websites, showing that people’s use of the internet had evolved from a re tool to a necessity in life.

These two events may seem unrelated, but in reality, they triggered a series of chain reactions, ultimately leading to one result:

Flappy Bird, also known as Clumsy Bird, skyrocketed to fa overnight after being featured for the third ti on App Store, claiming the top spot on the North Arican free download chart.

The success of Flappy Bird was not due to its gaplay being exceptionally rich or entertaining, but rather because it was a ga miracle born from social networking.

Initially, so early players downloaded the ga out of boredom.

At first, the spread was limited to the players’ rants, who were perhaps infuriated by dying over and over again or exhilarated by surpassing their own high scores. In any case, they would share and post their experiences and records on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or other erging social dia platforms.

Later on, as their social dia posts spread, more and more players flocked to the ga.

Compared to its earlier versions, i Fang paid more attention to the social interaction experience when designing version 1.0. In the ga, players could interact with their social dia friends by linking their Facebook accounts, and there would be weekly leaderboards of them and their social dia friends.

Young players loved to share, record, compete, and review. When they saw their friends surpassing them, they would desperately continue playing, which, of course, ant continuous ad revenue for i Fang.

There were also those who noticed that their social dia friends who had never played gas before appeared on the ga leaderboards. Simply out of curiosity about the shared ga, these internet-savvy users successfully beca part of Flappy Bird’s gaming community.

Many people began to write reviews and articles for Flappy Bird, analyzing its success. However, so pointed out that this ga did not deserve to be called a true ga and was a stain on the Ninth Art.

But regardless of the ga’s reputation, before it beca popular in China, it had already beco a super hit on the App Store internationally, with downloads quickly soaring from 10,000 to 2 million. It also gradually climbed to the top of App Store free chart in various regions outside of North Arica.

The ga’s explosive popularity didn’t necessarily an that the developer himself received a good reputation. i Fang had heard about the rumors and accusations the developer faced in his previous life. Therefore, he refused to give interviews and ignored any private ssages. Besides, they were mostly written in long English text, and he didn’t want to read them one by one.

After all, the ga itself wasn’t the type i Fang liked. In plain terms, he was only using this social ga to quickly make money, earn his first bucket of gold, and then start making polished gas.

As for how much profit Flappy Bird’s viral success brought to i Fang—although he had already beco a destined billionaire thanks to Bitcoin, he didn’t feel it deeply yet at this mont. But when he opened his App Store backend account and saw his wallet balance inflating extrely quickly day by day, only then did he truly feel the joy of making gas.

Damn it, my boss back then must have been happily counting my hard-earned money as well!

i Fang could earn up to $10,000 a day in ad revenue, but in fact, it was only one-fifth of the peak earnings of the original developer in his past life. This was due to the three-year gap between their developnt cycles, the iPhone user base had not yet exploded at this ti.

With this accumulation, as of the end of June, i Fang’s overseas bank account had nearly $300,000 in savings, making him a bona fide millionaire.

The 2010 World Cup was won by Spain, a match that i Fang witnessed in his previous life. He rembered Casillas’ incredible save, witnessed The Flying Dutchman’s two missed chances, and saw The Little Fella’s decisive goal in the final minute of extra ti.

Knowing the outco, the 90-minute score, and the final score, this World Cup allowed i Fang to bet on higher odds.

However, he was cautious by nature and worried about the butterfly effect caused by his actions, so in the end, he only used one-third of his capital to participate in online betting. He won a post-tax prize of 8 million yuan with odds of 1:12.

After receiving this money, i Fang quickly felt that making gas didn’t feel as enjoyable anymore.

The hype train is indeed a terrifying force.

Others put in so much effort, and shed so much sweat, yet I can surpass it by buying Bitcoin.

This is actually a very hurtful thing.

With i Fang’s assets at this level, there was no need for him for further expansion in the short term. i Fang should calm down and focus on improving so of his own abilities.

Currently, i Fang was just a teenager who had recently finished his second year of middle school. Although he possessed millions in assets, he was still a child and did not have the legal power to make decisions about his own life.

Therefore, he must not reveal his wealth to his parents or the people around him. It was a major taboo.

Of course, Lin Youxi was now inevitably aware of so of the situation, but i Fang had not revealed too much information to her.

Lin Youxi was an introverted person, and she herself didn’t ask much about these things. i Fang trusted her.

So, during the sumr vacation after finishing the second year of middle school, while diligently reviewing and preparing for the entrance exam of Jiangcheng NOHS, i Fang secretly beca a millionaire with his two childhood sweethearts by his side.

After upgrading the bandwidth of C Site, i Fang started looking for so developers to maintain the website.

Although they were still young, i Fang and Lin Youxi were not ordinary when it ca to Golang and C# programming languages. However, they couldn’t solely rely on themselves for website operation and maintenance.

Taking advantage of the sumr vacation, i Fang discovered so talented programrs and artists among the senior mbers of C Site. He hoped they could help with so tasks on a part-ti basis.

C Site was a passion-driven website. The programrs themselves understood this very well. These ani enthusiasts even proposed to work for i Fang, also known as 【Mountain Has Forest】, for free. i Fang firmly refused and even offered them a monthly salary of 1,000 to 2,000 yuan.

Since then, rumors of 【Mountain Has Forest】 being a rich young lady spread, and i Fang even received comnts and private ssages such as internet slang that he had only seen during the later years of his previous life, which made him suspect that these people might have also traveled through ti.

Although there was no formal contract, these mbers who were contributing to the website worked harder than so formal employees i Fang had encountered before. There were daily discussions in their group chat, and their modifications to the site fully t i Fang and Lin Youxi’s expectations.

As a result, C Site quickly grew under the joint efforts of these early enthusiasts.

After their sumr vacation in 2010, then winter vacation, ti flew by, and it was now spring of 2011. The three of them were working hard towards their goals, and their relationship remained very close.

Xia Yuan, who had been tornted by physics for days, had now fully returned to her smiling self, even becoming a bit too active.

Active to the point of not feeling ashad to engage in so overly daring physical contact.

Fortunately, our i Fang was the chosen one. With his mature rationality and adept maneuvering skills, he managed to get through unscathed in the end.

Many visions were now being arranged and planned, and the day to test the results was fast approaching.

In the sunny month of March, i Fang, Xia Yuan, and Lin Youxi had made thorough preparations. Tomorrow, they would embark on a journey to Jiangcheng for the special county student entrance examination——

Along with their respective parents.