231: Section 231

Looking at Wang Mo’s actions, Zhang Fan and the others were a bit confused.

Wang Mo, however, looked at the retreating figure of the employee who had just left and muttered, “I’ve decided on the type of the next software.”

Subsequently, Wang Mo left the office, much to the bewilderment of the others.

As he passed by them, Wang Mo also said, “Once WeChat’s user count officially surpasses QQ and Blue Wallet, we’ll hold a planning meeting for the next software solution.”

Listening to Wang Mo’s words, Zhang Fan and the others nodded.

They then followed him, wanting to ask Wang Mo about the type of the next software.

But Wang Mo kept them in suspense and didn’t tell them directly.

He had already decided that the next software would be a group-buying and food delivery application.

Although in this world, some small group-buying websites existed, their scale was not large, and most offline businesses related to food, drink, and entertainment did not have a fixed online group-buying point.

As for the food delivery sector, it had never appeared before; it was an undiscovered blue ocean and a new trend.

Since Pinduoduo had maximized the online shopping domain, then the next solution should encompass all offline living aspects into one software.

Although as soon as he started this, a large amount of other capital would pour in within a short period, and the scale of competition among various similar software this time would likely reach a historical level.

However, if it succeeded, the potential of this software would be quite astonishing, and its influence would not be much lower than the software they had previously created.

Wang Mo also decided to include shared bicycles in the later stages of this software’s promotion.

This way, the software’s influence would be even greater.

But for now, all other ideas would have to wait until WeChat’s performance finally surpassed QQ and Blue Wallet.

And after determining the type of the next software, Wang Mo’s attention was entirely focused on the upcoming WeChat.

Under the watchful eyes of countless people, time continued to slowly pass.

Three days later, QQ launched its Red Envelope feature as scheduled, immediately attracting many users.

And the ‘Luck Red Envelope’ gameplay also quickly became popular within QQ.

The rate of QQ user loss also slowed down significantly under these circumstances.

However, facing WeChat’s unstoppable offensive, everyone was well aware that QQ’s actions merely delayed the time for WeChat to surpass them by a few days.

Blue Wallet had already given up resisting; only QQ still wanted to struggle.

Moreover, after QQ launched its wallet feature, Pony Ma had actually planned to invest a large budget into a massive promotional campaign for QQ, intending to forcibly spend money to retain QQ’s daily active user champion position.

However, his idea was met with opposition from many Penguin Group executives as soon as it was proposed.

Because everyone else knew that WeChat’s terrifying growth rate of user numbers was almost entirely organic.

WeChat had not conducted any promotion, relying entirely on user word-of-mouth and continuously launched new features to naturally attract users.

Even if QQ forcibly promoted, WeChat could do the same.

In such a case, the result would not change.

Even if WeChat did nothing and watched QQ relaunch large-scale promotions, it would only slow down the time for WeChat’s users to surpass them for a period.

For the current QQ, the cost-benefit ratio of large-scale promotion was completely disproportionate.

After all, no matter how QQ promoted, it would be difficult to attract older user groups, which was a fundamental drawback.

WeChat, on the other hand, had no such concerns.

Everyone was clear that WeChat’s daily active users, even after surpassing QQ and Blue Wallet, were far from reaching their limit and could still slowly increase their user numbers.

Previously, the daily active user limit for QQ and Blue Wallet had essentially stayed at 600 million, making it difficult to increase further.

Even though Blue Wallet temporarily increased its daily active users to 800 million through its “going to the countryside” campaign, which copied WeChat Wallet, it ultimately failed to retain users.

But WeChat was completely different.

The number 600 million would probably only be WeChat’s starting point.

Ultimately, WeChat’s performance would likely far exceed the current QQ and Blue Wallet; this was almost a foregone conclusion.

To frantically spend money just to slow down WeChat’s speed in surpassing QQ was highly inadvisable.

Therefore, under the obstruction of many Penguin Group executives, Pony Ma eventually gave up on this idea and chose to stop.

With QQ and Blue Wallet having no further actions, WeChat’s daily active user count continued to increase rapidly.

Although the speed of this increase slowed down somewhat because QQ launched Red Envelopes, it only delayed the time by a few days.

Five days after QQ Red Envelopes were launched, WeChat’s daily active user count had reached 582 million.

At this point, WeChat’s daily active user count had officially surpassed QQ and Blue Wallet, becoming the number one daily active software in Yan Country.

However, because QQ and Blue Wallet had not announced their latest daily active users recently, the outside world was not aware of their current daily active user numbers.

But due to the strong demands from many users outside, QQ and Blue Wallet simultaneously disclosed their daily active user numbers a few days later.

And just one hour after the two software disclosed their daily active users, at 3:00 PM on a very ordinary Saturday afternoon, WeChat announced a new piece of information on major social platforms in Yan Country.

WeChat announced that its daily active user count had reached 585 million, officially becoming the software with the most daily active users in Yan Country!