Chapter 247 Who said I was going to do takeout?
Deng Yudi is a very interesting student. He follows the traditional Chinese virtue of "don't talk while eating and don't talk while sleeping". Once he switches his state to "eating", he doesn't say a word.

At least he had a computer, but no one knew what he was watching, so Li Yan could only enjoy the food in peace.

As a result, Deng Yudi ate faster and more than Li Yan, and he took the initiative to open the fried chicken.

Damn, so you mean you can’t finish it all by yourself, right?
Not until Deng had finished sucking the chicken legs in his hands and leisurely went to the toilet to wash his hands did he immediately switch back to discussion mode.

The discussion mainly focused on Robert. Deng Yudi believed that if one really wanted to develop a usable system, one could only start with the open source Robert.

Unlike Chen Fan, Deng Yudi is actually a romantic. He acted like "we can really do it" from beginning to end.

Li Yan had to calm him down after hearing this, "Yudi, this... at this stage, we are still mainly trying it out. It's impossible for us to produce something that requires dozens of senior engineers with just a few people."

"System X was developed by one person."

“That’s because it was open source and optimized by a lot of people before it could be used normally.”

"Well... it's okay. How well you do it is another matter. Don't feel that you are incompetent."

Li Yan was shocked. Damn, there was actually a day when he would be taught to be "confident"?
"It's not that I don't have confidence... But you're right. No matter what, our predecessors have paved the way. I'll take you to the founding tribe some other time, and we can learn from them."

"That's it. I also know a big brother who works for the Chuang Clan. He was a former student of my father. We can ask him to guide us when the time comes."

"Your father?"

"He teaches computer science at Linda University."

Grass……

Wang Hang’s father is Wang Peihua, Chen Fan’s father is the director of the Optoelectronics Research Institute, and now your Deng Yudi’s father is a university teacher?

My classmate’s father has incredible connections in this circle.

"Okay," Li Yan thought Fang Shu might not have time to explain in detail, so it would be a good idea to have an employee guide him. "What department does he work in?"

"Technology Products Department."

"What a coincidence! It was Fang Shu who opened the research lab for us."

Deng Yudi suddenly felt a dimensionality reduction attack.

"I've heard of your name before. I knew there was an amazing student in New Taipei City. Wow, I didn't expect him to be so amazing."

Li Yan said: “Thank you for the compliment.”

Li Yan’s inner thoughts: It’s too early to praise, knowing Fang Shu is nothing.

"Would you like to form a team, Li Yan?"

"I am not in the group right now."

"I'm not talking about what we do, but we can really make something." Deng Yudi became excited, and his chin protruded a little, just like a portrait of a famous historical figure.

"We do have a plan, but right now we have no money, no resources, and no achievements, so it can only be considered preliminary preparations." Li Yan said seriously, "Many things cannot be done by 'doing it ourselves'. To be honest, even if we are extremely powerful and come up with a usable system, we can't actually accomplish anything."

"I know, I know. It's the phone we talked about last time. You plan to create a software ecosystem directly and optimize the system from the perspective of software ecosystem needs. From the moment it is launched, it will be a complete version of 'changing life'. But... this requires a lot of ideas. Talk to me about it. I am also interested in the takeout delivery thing you mentioned last time."

Li Yan was stunned. "No, who said I want to do takeout?"

"Didn't you go to the Ele.Bar team at Linda to learn about things? Aren't you going to do takeout?"

"Just learning about it means we can do food delivery. Do I have to become a star if I participate in a cultural performance?" Li Yan said with a smile. "Besides, food delivery is very difficult to do. If we only do a small-scale platform in a specific area, it will be no different from what they have now called Ele.me. It's meaningless. If we really want to promote this platform, it will directly change people's lifestyles. Why would they want to use it? It's an extremely difficult problem to solve."

"Ah..." Deng Yudi was completely confused by this.

Li Yan took a sip of Coke and said, "Actually, I want an algorithm."

"Oh!" Deng Yudi became interested in this aspect.

“If you want to build a large food delivery platform and set up your own delivery team, then how to dispatch orders and flexibly plan routes based on food delivery orders requires the support of a powerful algorithm.”

"How awesome?"

"...You're quite humorous, Yudi." Li Yan laughed awkwardly. "If we really want to start a takeaway business, even if we don't consider why everyone wants to use this as a starting point, there are still many other issues to consider. These are not issues that can be solved by just a few people sitting together and brainstorming."

“So you want to do an algorithm simulation first?”

"Yes, the data is taken from the Ele.ba team." Li Yan nodded.

"Then you still want to do takeout?"

Finally I asked this question.

Seeing Li Yan's upturned mouth, Deng Yudi thought to himself that something was wrong. He vaguely felt that he was being tricked.

"Based on the foreseeable future where everyone has a smartphone, if this algorithm is really developed, it will definitely not be as simple as food delivery. If it can deliver food, it can also deliver other things. As long as the supply side is done well, it can deliver medicine, groceries, short-distance express delivery, and everything else. And since it has the capabilities of dispatching and receiving orders and map route planning and navigation, it can not only be used to buy things, but also to take taxis." "Ah..." Deng Yudi was confused again, "How much work does this require?"

"Yudi, you are more confident than me." Li Yan laughed, "I don't even dare to think about actually making it. My idea is to come up with a concept. Make a finished product that can be seen and touched, but not to the extent that it can be used directly."

“I’m definitely confident.”

“……”Communicating with Deng Yudi requires a special rhythm, which Li Yan has not found yet.

"You have a concept product. Do you mean a mobile phone?"

"Anything is fine, even if it's just a demonstration." Li Yan shrugged. "As long as I can show my ideas and let the big guys see the feasibility and be willing to use their resources to join in, it will be fine."

"Where did all the big guys come from?"

"Developer Conference, Science and Technology Innovation Conference, 'My Classmate's Dad' WeChat Moments."

"Hello, I'll clean the table, thank you." A young male waiter came over with a tray and unskillfully cleared away the food remnants on the table.

"Hey handsome guy," Li Yan called him, "I want to ask, how does your delivery service work?"

The young people who had just arrived to work had a whole week of training. One of the key points was to deal with customers' "strange questions and requests". The manager used his experience as a veteran to teach him about various strange questions, including but not limited to "Can I use your toilet without eating?", "Can you give me a bottle of ketchup?", "Can I have a hamburger with more meat instead of bread?", "Can I have their contact information?", "Is it okay for the handsome guy/beauty?", "I haven't eaten in ten days, give me a hamburger?", etc.

But he really didn't expect that someone would ask about the operating model of ZTO Express, which was beyond the scope of his friend.

"I'll help you find our manager." The young man lowered his hat and walked into the kitchen.

Damn, did he think Li was looking for trouble?
The manager is a vibrant thirty-year-old woman, more mature than a girl, more lively than a mature woman, and looks thirty at first glance.

"Hello, what do you need?"

"Hello, would you mind talking to us about the operation model of ZTO Express?"

The manager looked at the two little brothers in front of her. There was a computer and some documents on the table. She recognized the school uniforms as those of the best junior and senior high schools in New Taipei. She thought for a moment and pulled over a chair to sit down:

“Are you going to do a project?”

"No, we were just talking about home delivery during dinner, and I was curious about how it was done, so I asked."

"As expected of a top student from a good school," the manager chuckled, "Little brother, you are only in junior high school, right?"

"Correct."

The manager let down his guard. They were just two kids. Home delivery was no secret, so explaining the operating model was nothing big.

"We normally order food by phone, mainly relying on..."

The manager actually only knew a little about ZTO Express. He said that the ordering system and the call center would match the nearest store based on the area of ​​the order address. After the order was allocated, a special team would be responsible for delivery, so there was nothing else that could be squeezed in.

Li Yan asked a few questions, but she really didn't know the ones involving specific technical operations.

Deng Yudi took careful notes, but Li Yan was not interested. The success of ZTO Express actually relied on the brand strength of Colonel Ken. Enough stores were opened in different regions to ensure the coverage area, and the high delivery fees could support a delivery team. Taking the restaurant where Li Yan worked as an example, the delivery staff also participated in daily work, but they were given priority when there were delivery tasks.

What surprised Li Yan was that the manager said that the deliverymen here don't use navigation because they are all responsible for an area and are used to the route. If they really can't find the way, they can just call the customer and get it done.

This is actually a branded and professional expansion of the existing "Stir-fried food downstairs delivered to my home" system, which is completely different from the food delivery platform.

But he at least had some idea of ​​how to screen the experimental data of Li Kai's team by then.

On the other hand, it also shows that Li Yan’s ideas are indeed still relatively early at the moment.

That's fine. Concept products are supposed to be disruptive.

Be quick, even if the final results may be slow, but the interim results must be achieved first.

After Li Yan finished asking questions to the manager, the manager asked more questions.

"Little brother, where are you from?"

Li Yan thanked him decisively and said goodbye.

"To be honest, Li Yan, I don't really understand what you said later." Deng Yudi bit his lip, "I'm more interested in the algorithm you mentioned. Can we find an opportunity to meet Senior Brother Li Kai together?"

"Hey, you know him?"

"Brother Li Kai has a double degree in computer science."

"Is he also your father's student?"

"Yes, my father is a teacher of basic computer science courses. It can be said that all computer science students are my father's students."

(End of this chapter)