Rebirth of a Top Student's Handbook

Zhou Min, who was focused on reading the chat messages in the recruitment group that Chen Shengxin had just created, was completely unaware of Zhang Kun's little tricks.

Chen Sheng, Class of 08, Computer Science, Turing B: [Everyone, please use the nickname I have in your group chat. If you keep asking like this, I won't be able to tell who's who.]

Tao Chengyou, Class of 06, Mechanics (Qian Xuelin Class): [The recording equipment you just mentioned will later belong to us personally. Is that right?]

Chen Sheng, Class B, Computer Science, 08: [Yes, after submitting 20 qualified recorded lessons, these devices will belong entirely to you.]

Tao Chengyou, Class of 06, Mechanics (Qian Xuelin Class): [The recording equipment you just mentioned will later belong to us personally. Is that right?]

Liu Ying, Class 2, Finance, 07: [The three-year contract only requires us not to record videos or live streams for other companies or platforms during these three years; it doesn't require us to record courses for you for three years, right?]

Chen Sheng, Class of 08, Computer Science Turing B: [Yes, you have complete freedom here. If you want to earn more money, you can record more lessons. Because we cover the equipment costs upfront, we'll follow up with you for the first 20 lessons, and then it's up to you.]

Chen Sheng, Class of 08, Computer Science Turing B: [Once our platform's traffic increases, you can choose to sign a revenue-sharing agreement with us, which could potentially increase your earnings per lesson.]

Kong Zhouxin, Russian Language Class of 08: [Could you show us the website address of your platform?]

.......

Zhou Min watched Chen Sheng's conversation with them for a while, and after finding that Chen Sheng was handling things very well, she stopped paying attention.

After closing the chat interface, Zhou Min started asking about prices from equipment sellers on online shopping platforms.

At that time, online shopping was not as widespread as it is today, so competition among online stores was not fierce.

Furthermore, due to the relatively small number of online shoppers, there is a significant price difference between online and offline prices for many products.

Many business owners themselves believe that they can sell online as long as they don't lose money.

Moreover, at that time, there was no price regulation for various brands on online shopping platforms.

So Zhou Min had no qualms about contacting several equipment sellers and asking them about their group purchase prices. After some haggling, she lowered the prices by several percentage points from each seller's initial offer before inquiring with new sellers.

This continued until no seller paid any more attention to Zhou Min's new prices.

Zhou Min purchased the equipment she wanted at the lowest price that these sellers could accept.

After Zhou Min had bought all the equipment, including two projectors and a printer, Zhang Kun finally finished reading the application form.

After confirming the number of applicants, Zhang Kun packaged the application forms and sent them to Zhou Min.

After quickly flipping through the files that had just been unzipped, Zhou Min said directly, "Let's create a group chat now, and I'll explain the situation to them. Please also notify the others in the main group later, and tell them not to wait."

"OK!" Zhang Kun breathed a long sigh of relief upon hearing this.

He just saw that the application requirements were too high; after reviewing them, only 32 applications were approved.

To make up the 40 people, he randomly picked 8 more from the people he had rejected.

It wasn't that he was deliberately being lazy, but rather that the conditions of these people were not that different to begin with, so he felt it wouldn't matter who he used. In any case, once they came in, they would most likely only be able to do odd jobs and wouldn't be able to play any significant role.

Zhou Min didn't care what Zhang Kun thought. After Zhang Kun added everyone to the group, Zhou Min briefly explained her requirements and ideas. After confirming that all 40 students could accept it and were willing to stay at the school, Zhou Min notified them to come for a meeting at 19:00 PM that evening.

After Zhou Min finished giving the instructions, she lowered her head and chatted with Zhang Kun about the group assignments.

"These people are quite skilled in video technologies such as WebRTC-based real-time communication and video encoding/decoding, so let's put them all in the video group!"

"Let's select a few people first! We need to develop online teaching software that can record the screen and also cut out the image of the person in front of the green screen and insert it directly into the video..."

"Why bother dividing it up? Just give this software to their group to work on! It'll be a good opportunity for them to practice with this online course software first."

"That works too. Two people should be enough for front-end development, right? But let's go with three! It'll be easier to divide the work."

"I think one person is enough! There are existing frameworks for front-end development; they can just modify them a little..."

"Let's stick with three! We still need to be a bit innovative, and I plan to create a platform software in addition to the website."

"Is there anyone who specializes in databases?"

"I haven't seen any particularly good ones yet, but Guo Xin from our class is alright. It's a pity he didn't sign up. Why don't you go and ask him..."

"I'll message him privately later and ask; data analysis is the main focus..."

"We'll update the algorithm later! Relying on them now won't get it done even this summer. Let's focus on getting the basic functionality working first..."

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While Zhou Min and Zhang Kun were discussing back and forth, Chen Sheng had already screened everyone in his large group chat.