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Eternal cake: an interview with Denis Kryuchkov, founder Habrahabr
There are at least two reasons for revision proud of your favorite "IT-Murzilki" has decided to talk with the creator Habrahabr about the history of this unique project. On the one hand, of course, it has no direct analogue pads formed around a huge audience of IT-professionals. And on the other - one of the few successful examples of "publication of a new generation," which everyone is waiting for ever since invented the word "blog". Why did geeks able to create for themselves a media that can not make ordinary people?
Vebplaneta
< No higher education I have.
< In 2001, I founded Vebplaneta.
< It was interesting to watch the growth of a Yandex, as falling Rambler, as floundered and tried to survive Mail.ru.
< I met famous people from Internet companies,
< Do you want to be objective and write about everything?
< But Vebplaneta became my school life.
< Classic content project is not scaled.
< About six months popankoval: braided dreadlocks, a lot of walking, taking pictures, reading, clubs ...
Habrahabr
< Puzzle Habra formed from different pieces of LJ and Digg.
< The word "Habrahabr" does not mean anything, it just came into my head.
< One programmer wrote my first Perl engine. Initially Habr was open. Moreover - about six months after the start, he constantly changed and reworked. As long as I did not feel that we have found the very balance of the required components, you need to this thing counterbalanced itself.
8 million users visit each month Habrahabr
< The very first karma-war happened between dorveyschikov yandeksoidami and just six months after launch.
< Every time after such karma wars we set up a mechanism to evaluate karma to balance it all. This period of his youth Habrahabr was interesting when he was not yet stable and resistant (and endlessly Mota back and forth). The site is constantly hacked, appeared on the main Dark Lord, and so on.
< At some point around the project emerged fairly large HYIP.
< At first we just closed the register and gave each for an invite.
< There was a time when I was tired of Habra and even for some time completely estranged from him.
< The site appeared a lot of strangers.
< I thought Habr will regulate itself and everything will be fine.
< I've always wanted to Habr was a hardcore site, interesting for programmers. Year and a half I sat and cleaned out the whole mess, transfers to read only the people who were engaged in some kind of garbage, put things in order.
< Then I wrote a letter, threatened, tried to break my mail, wrote all sorts of funny garbage on lurke about Habr.
< DDoS-attacks were too. After all these attacks we completely rebuilt the infrastructure, and is now closed to us from DDoS - it's just to enter one line in the config file. But there were times when we DDoS'ili for two or three days, because of this, a lot of people fall into the black list, and we are two to three weeks came to himself.
< Habr I brought to the state when he felt that the order is pointed
< This is a really cool story.
< Who Habr requires no hard, daily work
< In this case, we have the desire to remake the Habr, but we do not yet know how to approach this.
Trying to scale number 1
< The original plan was that investors - we tried to clone the Habr other destinations.
< Geeks - people predisposed to sharing knowledge with each other.
< For us, "Autokadabra" still a hobby.
< One of these chips has become personalization.
< First, they began to encounter each other and sort things out.
< Then each wrote to me: "Deniskin you killed Habrahabr!»
< Finally from happening, I finally lost the ability to sleep and awake.
Now in the office employs 20 people. And about ten work remotely
< The new system allows you to customize your tape and read what you want.
< This is, of course, was also perceived a hostile reception.
Geeks - all our
< Soon the idea to build a "geek ecosystem" in which it would be interesting and easy to rotate. The first was the "Toaster" - our attempt to hold conferences. We would like to geeks love us even more and use the full range of services and products that we offer. An end in itself to make this was not. Conference - not the business that will bring a lot of money and at the same time to work on his own. There is strong daily routine - the organization of visa negotiations, food and so on. But in the end we realized that the normal sites in Russia is not there. Decided not to mess with the conferences, rather we help others to hold them.
Soon we reanimate "Toaster" and based on it will launch its Q & A service for developers. We want to do something like Russian Stack Overflow. Of course, in their understanding and in their interpretation. We are now actively testing this product.
< Another project was the "Hunt».
< The moment to start the "freelance" was chosen by chance.
< With the launch of "freelancing" and began the story Brainstorage.
< Now there are already 50 thousand people, mostly developers.
< Additional services Habra we gradually carried into the individual projects.
15,000 freelancers Freelansim.ru visit every day
< A dedicated team of developers on the Ruby on Rails provides a rapid development of the new service projects.
< After all the perturbations, we came to the conclusion: we do not have anywhere else to climb.
Originally published in the magazine "Hacker" by 10/2013.
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