Liaotianbao
Liaotianbao, formerly known as Bullet Messenger, is a Chinese social media application developed by Beijing Kuairu Technology company. It was released by Luo Yonghao the CEO of Smartisan company on August 20, 2018. The slogan of Liaotianbao is that "We want to talk to the world". Originally, the logo was bullet and now the logo of the software is a Sycee with "smiling faces". It allows to send voice and text messages, voice and video calls, shopping, red envelope, and play mini-games etcetera. The service requires users to register by phone number. User can log in not only with their mobile phones, but also with computer websites. Indeed, the essential feature is that users can earn virtual currency through chatting, shopping, games, etcetera and those virtual currency can be converted into cash by pro rata.
History
Bullet Messenger
On August 20, 2019, Bullet Messenger was released by Beijing Kuairu Technology Team and Luo Yonghao the CEO of Smartisan company and developed by Techcrunch. Smartisan company was directly broadcasting the entire event.From August 23 to August 26, 2019, Bullet Messenger topped the free social networking applications. After released, until August 30, 400 million users have registered it. Far more than any other online social media.
On August 28, 2018, Bullet Messenger operator Beijing Kuairu Technology announced the completion of first round financing of 150 million RMB.
Luo Yonghao, chief executive of popular smartisan, said on his microblog that he plans to spend about 1 billion yuan over the next six months to add 100 million users.
Liaotianbao
On January 15, 2019, it was officially released and renamed Liaotianbao. In addition to social communication, it also updated the circle of acquaintances. Then, it also released version 1.0 of Liaotianbao and the new version is available in the Apple App Store and Android App Store.On March 5, 2019, the Liaotianbao team announced the team disbanded. Only about 30 people remained out of more than 200.
Features
Messaging
Liaotianbao offers SMS, voice calls, video calls and meetings, games, photos and video sharing, and location sharing. Liao supports different forms of instant messaging, including text messages, voice messages and SMS which users can send text messages to phone number on the home page. Liaotianbao users can also use group meeting which is convenient for business people. Indeed, group owners can keep other group members from sending messages. If group leader are going to hold a presentation in a group meeting and want attendees to focus on the speaker; this feature may be helpful if group leader want to peace the other group members down in a heated discussion.Text messages
The critical feature of Liaotianbao is to automatically convert a voice message into a text message. For example, when you press talking key, the built-in voice recognition system will transform a voice message into a text message. If the user recognises that the translation system is not accurate, the user can modify the text message by themselves. When users are less convenient, this feature can avoid unclear voice. It is very convenient and breaks down the old modes of chat tools. Moreover, it also can recognise accents to minimise errors of contents. For instance, the public and noisy places. Then users are likely to use it commonly.Voice messages
Instead of opening up main chat windows, it can respond to all the messages directly from the main chat interface. It can make user very convenient chat with many people and speed up the efficiency of reply such as customer service staffs. More important, other social media like WeChat, Tencent QQ must hear from messages again if users are not catch the message. However, Liaotianbao can repeat any part of the voice messages. Currently, Liaotianbao only transcribes Chinese words and does not provide an English translation of voice messages.Explore
With version 1.1.1 updates,"Explore" feature is occurred. The "Explore" function mainly includes ‘topic square’, ‘cash cow’, ‘novel’ and 'reading'.In 'topic square', it displays popular photos and hot topics, etcetera. In 'novel' and 'reading', it displays numerous novels and books. Moreover, Users can access all aspects of the news like Sina Weibo.