Hey, I am Daniel Hauck.

As you are on my blog you probably want to know more about this blog and the guy who writes it. Let’s go through this.

In general I am working on the question how we can build systems working for us and not against us - and how to stick to them.

In the past I often tinkered in finding the best “productivity” tool and learning every keyboard shortcut. Today I care about getting actual work done.

This work includes my day work as a Director of Technology at a German retailer for musical equipment, my role as a founder of Battery Page, and living a calm life in a world that spins faster every day we wake up.

If you're trying to build something that works - whether that's a team, a product, or just a life that doesn't drive you insane - you're in the right place.

About me

I started as a System Engineer right when the whole DevOps movement took off. While I held different roles on both sides I kept getting pulled into leadership roles, and tried to improve things, which quickly brought me into management. First small teams, later whole organizations.

If you are interested in my professional career, you can find more about that on LinkedIn.

Over the years I had many side projects. I worked as a leadership coach, I built a community for “mindful managers” (that was the name of it).

After years in the consulting I got tired of it, having a full-time management position and doing management on the side - who could have guessed it - isn’t working well.

I wanted to build something. It had been a while that I coded a product from scratch, but with the help of AI (at that time copilot) it was easy to get into again fast.

In all my projects I got hit with the same roadblock, which made me start with the idea I am still working on today.

Battery Pages

I am mentioning this here because a lot on this blog will relate to it, learnings, experiments, and where my journey takes me.

Whenever I launched something new, I got frustrated because I had to get away from doing what I love, building the product, to something distracting: building a landing page / web site.

Yes, there are tons of tools, with tons of options, and that’s the problem.

When I can choose the font, I will lose myself in choosing the font.

When I can choose a theme, I will lose myself in finding the perfect one.

This a huge waste of time and energy when all you want is a simple landing page for your product. And I know I am not alone with this.

That’s why I started working on Battery Pages in October 2024 and launched it beginning of 2025. It’s a service where you can build a website by filling out some forms, while you don’t have to care about pushing pixels around or choosing fonts.

Battery Pages takes care it looks good, it performs well, and most importantly it’s compliant to legal restrictions in Germany.

And that’s where we are today.

Talk to me

If you have any questions, about me, about my work, the easiest way is to reach me via X, or via mail.