Looking at the background data of 'The Shield', Ray was relieved.
It's been a month since his product went live, and in less than 30 days, it has harvested 15 million users.
Even Ray found the results a little unbelievable. He had expected it to be popular, but this large user base in this short time was unexpected.
Today he was going to change it from free to a monthly subscription.
Surely doing this he will lose some users, but this amount wouldn't be large, after all, 10$ for a subscription wasn't expensive.
It can be said to be an affordable price for the services his product was providing.
Although 10$ was not expensive, it will become a huge amount after going through the huge user base that his product has accumulated.
So it was enough for him to earn the money to get his next plan in motion.
Adding a recharge option in the product interface, Ray browsed through the internet to get users' reactions to this new change.
It didn't take long, a post titled 'Shield changes to paid-product' quickly picked up the heat.
Browsing through comments, Ray was a little relieved.
Although many people were scolding the developer for changing it into a paid product, they were not so irritated to uninstall the product.
Some tried to emotionally blackmail him to reveal the source code, and some tried to get in line with him, some reasonable people thought it was inevitable that the developer would earn money through this. After all, it was a truly technologically advanced product, amount of effort put into it was huge.
There were also representatives from tech companies who were trying to recruit him.
In short, it was a mix of opinions but overall, it didn't have much impact on the product itself.
Ding Dong
At this time his cell phone rang, picking it up he was a little excited to see it was a message from his bank.
"Your account 1234**** was credited with 100000$"
In less than half an hour since adding the recharge option to the product, he had earned 100k.
This product was truly a money-printing machine.
Calming down his excitement, he started planning on how to spend this money.
First of all, he has decided to shift from the shabby apartment that he has been renting for the past 4 years.
Secondly buying a car, he has been fed up taking local transportation to and from his destination.
Looking at the cellphone that has cracks in multiple places, he decided that it was time to change it too.
As for outfits and all, changing them was a basic operation.
Going out his first destination was a barber shop, coming to 'Rocky's Haircut' he ordered an expensive barber.
When he came out half an hour later with a completely new look, Ray felt a change in himself.
At least the rate of turning around along the road increased significantly.
Enjoying the attention, Ray went to his second destination, the shopping mall.
First went to the clothes section, and he ordered 3 formal and 6 casual wears.
As for design, it was a low-key luxury.
Going back he stopped by a cellphone start-up and ordered himself the latest MobiX, full touch screen handheld with a dashing look.
Checking the time it was 7 in the evening.
In the excitement of his financial upgrade, he forgot about the meal, now his stomach was protesting.
Searching for a restaurant with good ratings, he was impressed by steaks from 'Charcoal Grill'.
He decided this was it, their shop front was located a block away.
"We must buy a car as soon as possible"
Hiring a taxi, Ray thought to himself.
Enjoying his steak, he admired his Bank balance, which by now has reached 5 million.
He has decided to buy himself a car and an apartment tomorrow.
He has had enough of giving tolls to the landlord every month.
With everything said and done, he fully concentrated on enjoying the steak in front of him.
By the time he returned home, it was 10 in the evening.
After having a meal he had enjoyed a night walk on the streets of New York, it was a pleasant experience.
Sitting on the bed, he explored the background data of the product, seeing the number of users going from 15 million to 12 million, he was a little stunned.
Although he had expected he would lose a number of users when he had changed the product from free to paid, losing 3 million in a single day was still a considerable loss.
But thinking about it he was relieved, although he lost many users this day, it should be stable after that.
These remaining 12 million users were solid and it's not like this number will not increase.
This period was still a testing period for many companies who were using his software for security services.
Once this period passes, the popularity of his software will have a second explosion, it will truly reach its peak at that time.
At that time he will make up for the users lost now.
As for someone copying or even innovating his product, he didn't have these worries, if something like that happens, he will just travel 100s of years into the future, learn technology there, and come back to apply it in the present.
He not only has this product, but things like AI, artificial sun, space tech, and various Sci-fi tech, are the things he can get by traveling to the future.
This kind of thing like smuggling tech from the future is not difficult for him who holds the time rule.
But these things are like nuclear bombs placed beside him, believe it or not, if he brings these things to the present, the next day he will be sacked and placed on a research table, although he can't die or be trapped, his strength now is not enough to face the state machinery.
So he can't do that now, at least can't do it until his strength is enough to hold these things firmly in his hands.