π About Me

An entrepreneur & a product guy, currently working in SaaS, BI & Data Analytics.
Products I’m actively working on Holistics.io, dbdiagram.io, dbdocs.io, centroly.com
Follow me on LinkedInΒ –Β Twitter – Medium
π Essays
To clarify, many of my blog posts are still in draft form, but I prefer to publish them first and iterate later, which is consistent with the lean methodology.
- β A Library of the Best Product Management Books for Product Managers
- Product Managers should involve Product Designers and Engineers as early as possible
- The 2 Components of Product Management (WIP)
- Public Product Roadmap
Product Strategy
- How Playing Strategy Games (like Starcraft, AoE) Teach Me About Building Startups and Product Strategy (WIP)
- β Product Strategy vs Video Games: Expansion
- β Growth Strategy System
Product Design
Startups
Problem-solving
Analytics
- β The Future of Self-service BI: AI-guided BI
- β 4 Case Study Questions for Interviewing Data Analyst at a Startup | by Anthony Thong Do | HackerNoon.com
π¨ My Products
dbdiagram.io – Top 1 Database Diagram Tool
- β dbdiagram.io – Part 1: Build – Got 20,000 Users And 2,500 Leads Within 2 Months
- β dbdiagram.io β-β Part 2: Grow – 200,000 Users with 0 Dollars Spent on Marketing Budget
Others
- Introducing Holistics Open-source Smart Date Parser
- I built Text-to-chart app by just asking ChatGPT
- Drive Browser β Make Google Docs and Words Awesome Again (WIP)
π Data
- A Guide to Build Reporting Analytics on MongoDB | Towards Data Science
- How to use Power BI on Mac Devices (holistics.io)
- Using Pivot Table for Dummies with Pokemon Data β Part 1 | HackerNoon.com
- A Database Diagram Designer Built for Developers and Analysts | HackerNoon.com
Others
- Product Round-ups
- Travel – I hope that I have time to tell you all about my trips
- 2021 – Hang Tien & Tu Lan
- 2019 – Vancouver
- 2017 – Singapore and Thailand
- 2016 – Seattle and Portland
- …
WIP
- Time to Value (WIP)
- Product Management Career Ladder (WIP)
- SaaS vs Platform (WIP)
- The Great SaaS Silos (WIP)
- Build a Product instead of a Company (WIP)
- Simple SEO Tips That Just Work (WIP)