Bananas and Little Chicken

At midnight, the lights were still on in room 305.

Lu Zhou was debugging all the servers to ensure that the newly added developer features were working properly.

When the number of users using the developer backend decreased in the early morning, Lu Zhou would push DreamGrain 2.0 to the servers.

Why do people often say that the internet is tough and exhausting? Why do programmers tremble whenever there's a version update?

It's all for the sake of quickly updating the version while the users are asleep.

Updating during the day is asking for trouble. If there's a problem, it's a clear production incident.

If there's a problem with the update at night, there's still a few hours to fix it.

Meanwhile, Wang Zhengye and Huang Dong were working on their "family bucket," and Zhou Wen was helping him by bringing a bowl of noodles.

Lu Zhou shouted, "Xiao Dazi, Xiao Wenzi, come here."

"..."

Normally, Tang Yutong liked to give Dong Junda and Pan Feiwen nicknames, claiming it to be a term of endearment.

Dong Junda was a bit speechless, "Lu Zhou, can you not call us that? It feels a bit awkward."

Lu Zhou couldn't help but laugh, "Haha, just a casual call. Are you guys familiar with the previous DreamGrain SDK?"

Pan Feiwen adjusted his glasses and said shamelessly, "I can write it by heart, no problem."

Lu Zhou then looked at Dong Junda, "And what about you? I remember the counselor talked to you before. What happened after that?"

"I did whatever I wanted. If I could take a leave, I took a leave. If not, I found classmates to cover for me. If classmates couldn't do it, I found someone to substitute. I have no problem with the SDK."

Lu Zhou gestured for them to look at the screen, "This is the new SDK I wrote this afternoon. It's more complex than the previous one. It's mainly a comprehensive monitoring suite used to monitor user click loads and exit behaviors.

Take a look first, and this will be integrated into Bananas as a priority.

Later, it will be open to paid developers, so we need to develop the corresponding graphical interface."

Dong Junda nodded, "Alright. Zhou Wen can reuse the code he wrote for DreamGrain before. It should be done in two or three days."

Pan Feiwen shamelessly said, "With me, it'll be done tomorrow."

Dong Junda was happy when he heard this. Wasn't Pan Feiwen just saying that he could do better than him? "Tonight! I won't leave until I finish it."

Lu Zhou then dismissed the two, "Go, go, go. Go down and see how to write it."

It was just a joke, bragging without limits.

After all, this was DreamGrain Cloud Computing's first trial product. Finishing it overnight? Lu Zhou felt it was a bit unrealistic.

"At least half a day."

He called Fang Qiang again, "Qiangzi, don't wait anymore. Put up the maintenance page directly. They won't be able to sleep with these developers staring at the backend.

Hurry up, let's update first and let them go to sleep to prevent sudden death."

"Zhengye, Huang Dong, Zhou Wen, you three, stop for a moment. Go help your brother Qiang.

The two of you little eunuchs can continue writing. Don't even think about leaving until you're done."

"..."

"Lu Zhou, just call me Xiao Wenzi."

Fang Qiang first

Lu Zhou, with dark circles under his eyes, arrived at Room 305. He and Fang Qiang were relatively early, waking up at half-past nine.

The other programmers hadn't taken their positions yet.

Of course, since they had gone live last night, the development tasks could be delayed a bit.

Lu Zhou wasn't that rigid; he had to let these young guys take a rest.

First, Lu Zhou and Fang Qiang extracted installation packages and data from other app markets.

There was nothing wrong with doing so. After all, most DreamGrain developers were concentrated in small to medium-sized teams.

But as an app market, if users installed your app and found that it didn't even include popular apps like Penguins, wouldn't that be ridiculous?

And these internet giants naturally wouldn't bother with the Banana Market. They wouldn't take the initiative to contact DreamGrain and add their apps.

Thus, Lu Zhou could only rely on self-publishing as a transitional solution.

Once the promotion of the Banana Market was effective and the product installations increased, they would gain some leverage in cooperation with the big players.

By noon, the app packages and data had been fetched. Lu Zhou instructed Fang Qiang to upload the data to the Banana's database.

Lu Zhou then approached Tang Yutong's desk.

With his left hand resting on the table, he looked at Tang Yutong and said, "Xiao Tong, did you contact Lou Ji's team? Any results?"

Tang Yutong extended two fingers in front of Lu Zhou and said, "Yes, Senior. The other party is quite willing to cooperate."

"What's the initial price settled at?"

"Hehe. The unit price is one cent, and they offer the top position on the game leaderboard."

Lu Zhou didn't ask for specific details. In any case, the result was good, and Tang Yutong turned out to be unexpectedly capable.

"Xiao Qin, how's the company's financial situation? We'll invest 200,000 as promotion expenses. Is there any pressure?"

Meng Xiaoqin replied without hesitation, "No, considering that DreamGrain has a 45-day payment period, there won't be any pressure in the short term."

Lu Zhou repeatedly nodded in approval. "Alright. Xiao Tong, contact Lou Ji's team directly. Give them 200,000 to start the promotion. It starts at 2 p.m."

"Zhou Wen, add a Banana ad to the backend and promote it exclusively on Lou Ji's account."

"Okay, Brother Lu."

"Qiangzi, has the app data been uploaded? If there are no issues, we'll start advertising in the afternoon."

...

At 2 p.m., in the DreamGrain advertising platform, the Banana Market's ads officially began to be pushed.

The ad material was created by a design company that Tang Yutong had contacted, while the design concept came from Lu Zhou.

In the ad, on the right side, there was a soft and adorable Tang Yutong holding a bright yellow banana in her right hand.

The banana peel was peeled open into three slices, revealing the tender white flesh, and the banana was being brought to her mouth.

In her other hand, Tang Yutong was holding a large Banana Market logo.

Below, a slogan accompanied the ad: "Everything you want is here."

Initially, the design company arranged models for DreamGrain, but Lu Zhou found it too expensive. In the end, he directly had Tang Yutong be the model.

When the design company submitted the draft, everyone at DreamGrain looked at Lu Zhou with perplexed expressions.

Lu Zhou said with a smirk, "Hehe, the banana definitely doesn't mean what you think. You guys are overthinking."

"Oh no, then please explain what it means when Xiao Tong is bringing it to her mouth."

"It means it tastes good."

"Then please explain why you had to show the flesh. You even created an effect for the flesh, as if afraid that others wouldn't understand the meaning!"

"Because you can't eat it without peeling it."

"Forget it. I can't even criticize this slogan anymore."

Lu Zhou spoke earnestly, "Everything you want in apps is available for download here."

...

And now, as they were about to start the advertising, Tang Yutong was constantly worrying.

"Embarrassment.jpg Boss wants to spend 200,000 on advertising. What should I do? Waiting online, very urgent."