In this team, Peak Ji began to learn computer programming. Later, in junior high school, he fell in love with the operating system. "Because I think that's the root of computer programming." Coupled with the entrepreneurial story of Bill Gates and the influence of the myth of Linux, Peak Ji completely fell in love with operating system research and development. From Windows3. 1 to Vista, from Linux to BeOS, Solaris and UNIX, he tried almost all operating systems. "All crazy programmers dream of writing an operating system." Looking back on this story, Peak Ji laughed and called himself "young and frivolous".
Peak Ji, who calls himself a "programmer", is a typical technical geek. He likes watching cartoons, playing games, visiting technology forums and subscribing to technology blogs. He is familiar with the past in the IT field and curious about the new things and trends in the field of science and technology. In the Apple App Store, there is a browser called Mammoth, which has been updated from 20 1 1 and 12 to the fourth generation. It is the most downloaded product among the browsers developed by individuals on the iPhone. App Advice, an internationally renowned evaluation website, commented that "Mammoth 4" redefined the standard of browsers; Techrice, another evaluation website, suggested that Apple pre-install this browser on the iPhone.
The author of this product, Peak Ji, is a post-90s student. From browser design to art design, development, testing, operation and other work, all by himself. 20 10 When he started to develop Mammoth 1 in July, he had just finished his second year of high school in the High School Attached to Peking University.
In his view, some browsers on the market at that time were simply "weak". The browser experience launched by well-known enterprises is not bad, but the function is too weak and pedantic. However, some browsers developed by small enterprises or individual developers have diverse functions, but the operation is complicated and the experience is poor.
Peak Ji's idea is to develop a fast browser with a multi-page framework. Although it has various functions, it needs to be touched and lifted with one finger to realize all the functions. In July and August, he began to write a test program to verify the feasibility of the technology. After the third year of high school, I began to concentrate on programming, and released the final beta version of Mammoth 1 in June.
For every senior three student, learning is extremely busy. The development of Mammoth 1 occupied a lot of time in Peak Ji. At that time, he often sketched and conceived in class, and began to write code after returning to the dormitory. As long as there are unfinished or dissatisfied ideas, codes and drawings during the day, he will feel uneasy when lying in bed. "In the third year of high school, I debugged for a bug (vulnerability) until 3: 30 in the morning, and I felt very happy after solving it." This habit of never sleeping without solving the problem has been maintained until now.
Design, art design, development and testing are all undertaken by one person, which also makes Peak Ji feel pain and happy. "Need programming, responsible for the graphic design of the interface." Peak Ji said that a program often changes and the interface needs to be changed, so he often has to switch back and forth between programming and Photoshop (a drawing software). "When I was a child, I lived in the United States and was influenced by a lot of heroism. In fact, it is quite naive, but the stories of Bill Gates and others make me feel that it is not impossible. " Fortunately, parents and school teachers are more open-minded and don't regard Peak Ji as an alien. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have persisted until now." .
20 10 12, Peak Ji officially released "Mammoth 1" in Apple Store. This version has the rudiment of Mammoth multi-page framework, simple list bookmarks and history, and several commonly used functions, such as night mode, picture viewing mode, in-page search, translation and so on. Without any promotion, there were 42 downloads on the first day, and the first show of Mammoth 1 was very smooth.
20 1 1 February, 2008, Peak Ji spent a month collecting feedback from users, and added functions such as collection wall and page preview to Mammoth. At the end of March, Mammoth 3 was released, creating a brilliant download volume of three days 1.2 million. Users' praise for this software is extremely high, and there are more than 800 comments in the app store in China alone, most of which are full marks.
On June 8th, 20 1 1, the day after the college entrance examination, Peak Ji sat in front of the computer again. He wants to make the most perfect Mammoth 4 in his dream. "From the details of technology, interaction and art, we must subvert the traditional mobile browser."
Four months later, Mammoth 4 was officially released.
After logging in, the interface is mainly black and white, with a strong sense of science and technology. 12 collection columns are neatly arranged on the front page, which is concise and intuitive. There are three points in the middle of the bottom sliding module. When you slide up, you can slide out a shortcut menu, which has three functions from left to right: refresh, tab menu bar and close. If you want to close this page, just slide your finger to the "Close" icon and then release it, and the page can be closed easily. The whole process is completed by "sliding" without any clicks. On other browsers, an operation usually requires multiple clicks to complete.
This is just one of the advantages of Mammoth 4. Comfortable operation optimized according to the user's fingertip size, two-dimensional scrolling bookmarks and history of similar visits, and iCloud reading list that seamlessly synchronizes reading progress ... This series of innovations "captured" the hearts of many mobile Internet users.
At first, Mammoth 4 was only available in Chinese and English, but some users sent emails after using it and were willing to provide free translations in German, French and other multilingual versions. At present, Mammoth 4 supports 7 languages, and the price is about 12 RMB. The current daily download volume is about 100 to 200. According to Apple's share, Peak Ji can earn 1000 yuan to 2,000 yuan a day. On May 7th, Peak Ji released the Rasgueado version of his iPhone gesture keyboard, and the new version took only two days to complete (1.0 version also took 48 hours).
Rasgueado originally refers to the technique of rotating fingers in flamenco guitar. Ji Yichao is named after this, which actually reflects the superb characteristics of this input method. Rasgueado allows users to freely move the cursor, select paragraphs and copy and paste without leaving the keyboard when typing, which greatly speeds up the editing speed of documents and has high efficiency and accuracy.
Rasgueado version has added functions such as text inversion, hyphenation, cursor emphasis and multi-control support, which perfectly supports various input methods such as Chinese, English and strokes.
It is worth mentioning that although Apple doesn't open the input method interface, Peak Ji still hijacked the UIKeyboard event legally, making it available globally in the iPhone App that hasn't escaped from prison, which is technically difficult.
Peak Ji said that he hopes to cooperate with developers to implant Rasgueado into text editing, Weibo or third-party input method apps to optimize users' text editing experience. At present, Rasgueado is not for ordinary users. In the future, if there is time and manpower, Peak Ji will also launch a version that can be used worldwide by jailbreaking the iPhone input method. Taking a cover photo for the Chinese version of Forbes is the third time Ji Yichao has worn a formal suit in his life. In his memory, the first time he put on awkward suits and shoes was at the adult ceremony, and the second time was the Macworld Digital World Asia Expo on 20 1 1. At the award ceremony that night, the young man under the age of 20 experienced the feeling of "walking the red carpet in a formal suit".
Peak Ji won the Macworld Asia 20 1 1 award for her self-developed browser Mammoth 4 for Apple iPhone. "There is such a fair thing!" Peak Ji's way of speaking has the unique teasing and humor of the post-90s generation. "I want to make products that make people use mobile phones and computers more comfortable and convenient." And his ideal was supported by angel investment. Zhenge Fund, led by Xu Xiaoping and Sequoia China, provided angel investment to Peak Ji, which will be used to create a laboratory "PeakLabs" mainly in Peak Ji, targeting Bell Labs and Xerox. Xu Xiaoping believes that Peak Ji is absolutely not inferior to Bill Gates and mark zuckerberg of the same age in terms of technology and products.
Xu Xiaoping said to Peak Ji, "Do the craziest thing you can think of." Now, Peak Ji's "PeakLabs" is being established. He hopes to find 5-6 like-minded partners and make some ideal Internet products. Xu Xiaoping also said that he will contribute all his experience and wisdom to support, protect and help him in the future. One of the specific ways is to send him to visit Silicon Valley regularly to ensure that he can surf in sync with the innovation tide in Silicon Valley.
Xu Xiaoping took a fancy to Peak Ji's enthusiasm for technology and the support of enlightened parents, who would rather sacrifice the college entrance examination than protect his enthusiasm for technology and products, which is rare, if not unique, among China families.
Peak Ji's father is a doctoral supervisor in the Physics Department of Peking University, and his mother is an executive of an IT company in Zhongguancun. Father engaged in research and mother engaged in business set an example in their respective fields and taught Peak Ji. Although Peak Ji is very young, she has her own understanding of the business world, which is due to her business mother. For example, how to choose angel investment, Peak Ji did not choose those investors who promised the most, but considered whether he agreed with his ideas and whether he could provide resources. Before meeting with Xu Xiaoping, Peak Ji knew that investors would definitely want to invest in projects with a large number of users and a large number of sales. Peak Ji said to Xu Xiaoping, "Why not do something that no one else has done?"
As for the business model, Peak Ji said that he hasn't considered it yet, because "as long as there are users, there will be a business model". This view makes the young man show his experienced side. "I don't have any unrealistic dreams now. All my dreams are down-to-earth." In business, Peak Ji showed maturity beyond his actual age. In 20 15, Peak Ji and his team brought a brand-new natural language search engine Magi, and provided knowledge maps and advanced multilingual web search services.