Container Registry
A no frills Harbor based Container Registry service or teams
On Sunday I decided to start a blog for my site with a first blog post. The whole endeavor was hard work and to be honest it was no fun! I'm not very satisfied with the content either. It feels not mature and somehow incomplete.
It was relatively urgent because on Monday a new regulation came into effect which is of great relevance for all my potential customers. If you are dealing with containers, then you have probably heard of the Docker Hub rate limit.
The whole thing took more than 8 hours to write. I must admit on Sunday I sat on the sofa with my son for 90 minutes while he was feverish with the four musketeers.
On Monday, after the post went live, I talked to my brother on the phone, who pointed out that marketing the content usually takes twice as much time. So on Tuesday I started sharing the post in several Reddit forums and set up analytics and Twitter metadata.
So far on Twitter there were about 100 impressions on LinkedIn less than 50, but on Reddit the post was well-received. 60 upvotes on r/linuxadmin/ and 90 on /r/devops/
The overall result was 462 impressions in Analytics for Tuesday. Whereby I have no idea whether the number of 462 is good or not.
I still want to distribute the post on other channels where developers usually hang around.
Next Steps
I have to find a magical way to motivate myself better with more joy in writing. I have always enjoyed teaching others. I have often been a teacher and have done a hundred workshops. Somehow it is different with writing. The positive feedback and the many questions on Reddit were helpful. In the long run it will not be enough, I think.
For the next posts I wanted to see how I could better distribute the content to reduce the manual workload. Maybe I need to create a checklist where to post and what description to take on what channel. So I can find a service that does for me or find a person who can do that.
Finally here is the post:
https://container-registry.com/posts/overcome-docker-hub-rate-limit/
A few days ago I came to the conclusion that I need to focus more on selling and promoting of my SaaS than building it. But how could I accomplish it without hiring and building a team for software engineering?
Just recently my first SaaS practically failed because I wasn't focusing on the sales part and was more involved with the product design and engineering.
When I'was going to start over again, then I need to do it different this time. So the idea arose to find something that is already build but "just" needs to be converted into a SaaS. I have a solid experience with building Software, so migrating an on-premise Software into a SaaS and build the right infrastructure and billing would be something that we could do without much risk.
Because the software was already there and the demand from the market as well.
In my previous project we had some difficulties with Docker Containers, especially storing them and making them accessible for the team wasn't that easy. hub.docker.com was pretty much the only option, and we just discovered a new open-source container registry solution that was designed for teams and organizations. This was the starting point to give it a try and migrate it into a SaaS and learn more about selling and promoting a SaaS then only building it.
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