An exercise in value creation
This year I've not had a lot of time to post on my blog. And the reason is that I'm in the arena. The good thing about being in the arena is that you absorb and learn things much faster than contemplation and reflection. Bu the trade-off is that the gain in wisdom and intrinsic value evades the conscious plane of the mind and takes a deeper and more permanent seat in your subconscious. To keep this blog alive, I'm CROSS POSTING FROM k10s Dev Log: https://blog.k10s.dev/why-build-k10s/
I'm building k10s because I want to learn how to create value, and k10s is the thing I'm going to learn it on.
k10s is a TUI for operating Kubernetes clusters, much like k9s, but simpler and focused on GPU workloads. I'm the first user. I built the first version because I wanted it to exist for myself. That's already a real reason to build something. The bigger question, the one that gets me out of bed, is whether I can make k10s good enough that other people want it too.
That's what value creation means to me. Taking something I care about and turning it into something other people care about. It's a skill I want to get sharp at, and the only way to train it is to do it on something real. k10s is real. I'm using it. The next step is making it good enough that strangers do too.
I need an honest way to measure whether I'm actually getting there. Friends, family, and colleagues won't give me that. They're rooting for me, not for the product. They'll tell me it's good because they want me to feel good. That feedback is too kind to be useful.
Free markets are the only honest signal I trust. Strangers who've never met me have no reason to be polite. They'll either use k10s or they won't.
The metric I'm pointing at is 100 GitHub stars. Deliberately specific. Not "is this a good product" or "did people like it," but a number I can hit or miss. It might evolve as the project grows, but right now that's the line in the sand.
This is the first entry in a dev log I'm keeping as I build k10s.
Keep an eye out for the stars on k10s Github