Tigran Hakobyan

What are some well-working growth tips that you can use to convert your active free users into paid apart from offering a discount?

My historical calendar shows that I launch a new product every 2 years. My last product was Cronhub in 2018. Maybe this year I will make something new? What do you think?

Thank you @joelgascoigne for your continuous support .https://twitter.com/joelgascoigne/status/1220429746787573766 …

So I spent the long weekend reading "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" and it was such an incredible book about the early days of Unix and Bell Labs. I can't recommend it enough. Also, Brian Kernighan is such a great writer I immediately got his other books so I can read them.

I want to write a new decent size blog post about Kubernetes next week. What would you like me to write about?

How crazy is this? You spend a week writing a blog post and only 100 people read it but then write another post within 3 hours + edit and it becomes your most popular blog post ever with ~100K views.

I think building software is still hard and complicated. - What's the v2 of programming languages? - Why do we still have to use git? Can't version control be a checkbox and live on prod? - Why do we have to keep the same code copy both in local and production? I have more...

In case you missed it yesterday, I published a new blog post that was on the Hacker News front page for 24 hours. My ramblings about working full-time vs. working for yourself. https://tik.dev/dilemma 

I thought no writing experience could beat Dropbox Paper, but @ulyssesapp has won my heart. And it's offline too. All my long-form thoughts go there first.

My last 3 hours. - Started to go over "A tour of Go" tutorials - Purchased "Go Programming Language" book - Spent two hours on reading about Ken Thomson and watching his interviews - Forgot where I started in the first place

I still can't believe how docker and containers changed how we build and run software. You can run `docker run -p 8080:80 nginx` and have a ready nginx server on your computer without polluting your local machine.

This year I plan to ditch iTerm and do everything in @code's built-in terminal. So far so good! No need to switch windows anymore.

If you run a Kubernetes infrastructure, how does your production readiness checklist looks like? ✓ I'm currently doing research on this topic and would love to learn more about how other teams tackle this problem.

What’s your opinion about building multiple profitable products vs focusing only on one thing? I bet many indie devs struggle with this inner dilemma.

Every time I make something with code I realize again that knowing how to code is a superpower. You can literally build something out of nothing. What a magic.

One eng productivity lesson I've learned is to build the first draft of a project as soon as possible with the first try. No focus on performance or clean code. Make it work. This is so key for taking any project from 0 to 1. It always works for me.

Last 2 years I've been actively working (side project + full-time work) in the developer tools market mostly with cloud-native tools like Kubernetes. I believe the most exciting problems to work on right now & beyond is making those tools more accessible & dev friendly.

2009-2019 - Finished my undergrad - Completed a mandatory military service - Moved to the US for grad school - Got into coffee - Started a new remote job - Got married - Built three side-projects - Got into a healthy lifestyle - Started to write - Got my green card