I have some bad news gif

I need shut down yuzhu.me for about 5-30 day. not sure.

don’t worry, it just temporarily.
not because the product suck & doesn’t make money & cost me a lot money.
it just because government told me to.

I just got a call this afternoon from gov, tell me to “备案” my website, and before it’s done, I should shut it down temporarily.
it just policy, everyone is doing it, I am not special.

in China there are a special thing call “备案”

（I guess “filing” is appropriate translation ?）
it mean I have to submit to gov about:

  • who I am (by submit ID card number & photo) (it’s like the SSN number in U.S.)
  • what is the domain name,
  • phone number
  • email
  • what I am gonna do (game? education? travel-relate product?)
  • home address or office address,
  • etc..

and it’s not just type these thing into a form and done. not something that take 5 minute.

I have to take photo of myself too.
the entire process would take about 5 day to a month. they would review all the document I submit.
and the mean time, I have to close website (by delete DNS A record )
boring gif

yep, pretty frustrating,

and it’s not about server provider or domain register,
I am using NameCheap and UCloud (you can think of UCloud as China AWS)
even I use Digital Ocean/Linode/AWS + Namecheap/Godaddy/domain.com

gov would still try to contact me and tell me fill the form,
if they can’t contact me or I just refused to fill the form,
they would just block the website.
unless you use Proxy, otherwise you can’t visit it directly in China.

that’s it, this post just an annocement.

I think most people doesn’t know such thing exist in China, that’s why I wrote this post.
it’s quite annoying and not “startup-friendly”, it just slow down the company by 5-30 day.

Have a nice day! Thanks for reading. :D

oh, right, let me write a quick update about yuzhu.me

it’s about a month now (July, 11 - August, 4), total visitor is ~3k .

I am adding map, forum, chat room, and review, I don’t want get too much attation.
because right now it’s still relatively simple website, other people can clone it within couple day.

so after first couple day I did some marketing, I didn’t do any marketing after that.
so 3k is kind of OK.

the feedback I get from people is awesome, they like it a lot.(not sure how much they willing to pay for it)
I am still trying to provide more value before think of a way to make money, to monetize.

that’s it. thank you gif