You think it's a cool WiFi master key, and it's good to have a side hustle

I don't know if you remember the WiFi master key?

That's right, it's the artifact that once made countless white prostitutes ecstatic.

Two days ago, I saw that it has been on the list of Hurun Report's "Global Unicorn Enterprise List" for six consecutive years. It was the list that had to reach a valuation of $1 billion to be eligible for selection, which stunned the world.

I have the impression that this app should be the tears of the times, but now it suddenly comes back and tells everyone that it is alive and well, what the hell is going on?

In order to find out about this, Shichao sacrificed his time playing games (not ) to check with everyone.

Don't say it, the WiFi master key was indeed in the Internet industry for a while.

Officially launched in 2012, the number of global users will reach 900 million in 4 years, and the only ones that can overpower it may be WeChat and QQ.

What year-end bonus is a Tesla per person, gold bars will be issued at the annual meeting, and legends about this company are circulating everywhere in the rivers and lakes.

The WiFi master key also lived up to expectations and became the sweetheart of capital, with a valuation of $5 billion after Series C financing, becoming the first batch of unicorn companies in China.

It is undeniable that in that era when 30M traffic was sold for 5 yuan, the WiFi master key did save us a lot of money.

But it didn't last long, and after 15 years, the operators were stunned by the wave after wave of "speed increase and fee reduction", which directly confused the WiFi master key.

As soon as the capital saw that the situation was not good, they withdrew one after another.

The worst thing is that the WiFi master key was also named by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology because of the problem of collecting user privacy, which made users afraid to use it, including Huawei and Honor, and several mobile phone app stores have also removed the App from the shelves.

By 2020, their daily activity has dropped directly to 300 million, and some netizens have complained that the function of "cracking" WiFi is not easy to use, and they will force users to open members in disguise.

Another point,It's that their ads are so disgusting.。。。

Many people may be the same as Shichao, and their impression of WiFi master key is still stuck in a simple WiFi tool.

But in fact, in order to make money, it later flooded the app with ads.

The ads in the Wi-Fi Master Key app are more difficult to prevent than cockroaches.

If it's an ordinary advertisement, forget it, vulgar rubbing, gambling and online loans, Kaijia Finance has reported before, they even cooperate with companies that are not qualified to lend...

The most disgusting thing is that some ads you can't even poke the screen and can't find where the close button is.

It's estimated that it was sprayed by netizens.,It seems to have started to reform itself again.。。

Just a while ago, the WiFi Master Key App was upgraded to a new version of the ship, saying that there are fewer ads.

Is this understandable that, in addition to advertising, WiFi Master Key may have other ways to make money?

And guess what, I really found out a lot of side hustles that they have developed over the years.

It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it, because I haven't heard of it either.

This Lianshang Network's App,When its brother WiFi master key was not so crotch-pulling,Nearly 50% of the traffic was channeled from there,19In 19 years, it can still rank among the top three online reading apps with palm reading and QQ reading。

It's just that the brothers are stunted in the later stage, and even Shang's reading has gone downhill.

Later, they engaged in some wave-chasing novels and brocade books, and they didn't let go of the fat of online reading at all.

And in January of this year, Chen Danian, the founder of WiFi Master Key, stood on the stage for Kyushu Culture, a short drama company, and it didn't feel relevant at a glance.

But Shichao checked it, and when Kyushu Culture was in the angel round, it was invested by Chen Danian.

This is both a novel and a short drama, and Lianshang Network doesn't want to package the upstream industry chain of short dramas.

What's more interesting is that this new version of the WiFi master key has also replaced the original messy graphic information and short videos with a short drama section, which is full of various types of short dramas, and it is clearly written "free".

It seems that the proportion of skits is higher, which instead makes the WiFi connection function seem to be add-on.

But the so-called free is only the first few episodes.,Most of the plot has to watch ads to unlock.。。。

What else is looking for a house Commander Lou, Lian Shang recruitment, Lian Shang headlines and comics, and even started socializing, even letters and oral messages You may not have heard of them, Michat, a social software that went to sea a few years ago, also pressed Facebook in Nigeria. Anyway, there is no circle that Lian Shang Network can't break into.

Even the core WiFi business, they are not left behind.

For example, we cooperate with airports, stations, and hotels, engage in public WiFi, and cooperate with car companies to engage in one-click connection to the cockpit. Although these businesses are not very conspicuous, they are still a way to make money.

Go to their official website, and you can also dig up a lot of news about them helping farmers and engaging in charity.

On the whole, Lianshang Network has made the plate very big over the years, and it is not only the WiFi master key business that we imagined. The only slot may be that I didn't do it.

But what's interesting is that last month, Zhu Lihua, the technical director of Momo, went to WiFi Master Key to be the CEO, saying that he wanted to take a large AI model with him.

From free Internet access, free reading, to skits and AI, the WiFi master key that can be stepped on does not seem to have fallen.

I can only say that I am curious about what new work this company that is not doing business properly and is crazy about hot spots.

Maybe the next wave will be a listing?