ONES acquires SegmentFault to build a high-quality developer community

ONES, which focuses on enterprise-level R&D management, announced that it has recently completed the acquisition of SegmentFault, a well-known technology question and answer community (hereinafter referred to as "Sifu") .

This is the third acquisition of ONES, following the 2020 M&A collaboration tool Tower and the 2021 M&A document tool WizNote-ONES.

Founded in 2012, Sifo is a leading Chinese technical Q&A community with nearly 7 million registered developers and users; at the same time, Sifo is also the organizer of the largest hackathon in China .

With the trend of digitization and open source, every company in the world is becoming a software company, and developers are the builders of the new era, they write the code that makes the world. As a gathering place for developers to learn and share technical wisdom, Thinking is their warm and familiar home. At the same time, ONES is a developer-centric enterprise that provides professional R&D management tools for developers and users. Therefore, ONES and Sibei share the common goal and vision of empowering and providing services to developers .

In 2018, Microsoft acquired code hosting platform GitHub for $7.5 billion. After obtaining the support of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure and service capabilities, GitHub's developer users increased from 28 million to 73 million in three years, an increase of more than 160%; moreover, 84% of the world's Fortune 100 companies are using GitHub. It is foreseeable that ONES will export more technology and management experience to Sifu, and further improve the level and quality of services provided by Sifu to developers .

On a global scale, independence and openness are the mainstream directions of the developer community. Among them, Sifo has always maintained an independent operation state. In 2021, Tencent's major shareholder Prosus acquired Stack Overflow, a developer technical Q&A community, for $1.8 billion. The merger announcement stated that "Stack Overflow will maintain independent operations. Except for changes in investors, the specific operations of the entire company will remain the same." Similarly, Sifu will continue to retain its independent operation, developer-oriented style and platform openness after joining ONES .

Gao Yang, founder and CEO of Sifu, said: "Developers are architects in the digital age. ONES attaches great importance to the developer's corporate culture and user service concept, which is highly consistent with the purpose that the Sifu community has always advocated. I believe that with the development of ONES' technical capabilities and resources With the continuous injection of , Sifeo will also release a stronger community potential and provide developers with a more pure, open and inclusive platform and services .”

Wang Yingqi, founder and CEO of ONES, said: "The strength of the community far exceeds the strength of the individual members. The Sifu community has gathered the most needed developers of the times. ONES has been adhering to the concept of improving the efficiency of developers since its inception, and has created a A large number of excellent products. In the future, ONES will work with Sifu to build a high-quality developer community and unleash the potential of developers .”