Days passed one after another. Lu Zhou kept up the same unchanging routine, waiting for the results of the Mathematical Modeling Competition.
From Monday through Saturday, he went back and forth between the dormitory, classrooms, and library. On Sunday afternoons, he tutored Chen Yushan's younger cousin.
With his help, Han Mengqi's math grades improved at an astonishing rate. From being a complete mess at the start, she could now at least keep up with her high school coursework and was steadily progressing.
On the other side was the Campus Train app.
Because he had never put much energy into it, Lu Zhou had almost forgotten that he was running a small company with a five-hundred-thousand-yuan loan, if not for the occasional bug report he received.
After the post-holiday travel peak passed, the Campus Train app's user base stalled at two million. Those users then went completely dormant, like a stagnant pool of water.
That was perfectly normal when he thought about it. If it was not a holiday, what student would buy a high-speed rail ticket home for no reason?
The monthly cost of renting cloud servers was several thousand yuan, but that was only during ordinary months. During June, September, December, January, and February, the cost of renting servers to keep the app running normally would increase by several times or more.
As for how to make a profit and monetize it, Lu Zhou honestly had no good ideas. This was his first attempt at starting a business, and he was still completely in the dark about many things.
His original plan had been to grow the app's user base, attract venture capital funding, or simply sell it directly to a large company that was interested and make a quick profit.
Yet so far, no one had thought highly