Ymir Report #1 — Open startup
Heya friend!
Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building.
INTRO
Trying to get back in the beat of things. I mixed coding and marketing this week, but I plan on trying to do a more regular coding/marketing cycle. We'll see how it works out in practice!
Jon's journey with Bannerbear really inspired me, so I'm emulating a bit of what he did with this newsletter.
PRODUCT
Small product updates this week. Mostly around the Ymir CLI except for the new open dashboard on the marketing site.
- Improved WP-CLI usage — Doing WP-CLI commands was awkward. I didn't know you could do double dashes (--) to pass a secondary command. So with this change, you'll be more easily able to run WP-CLI commands on your environment.
- CLI out of date warning — The Ymir CLI is the primary way to use Ymir. I expect things to evolve pretty quickly at first. So I wanted to put it in a gentle nudge when you're using an out-of-date version.
- Open dashboard — Released the first version of the open dashboard on the marketing site.
MARKETING
The open dashboard is an important aspect of my marketing. I always admired companies like Buffer who tried to be as transparent as possible. It's something I'm striving to do with the dashboard and this newsletter.
I also always wanted to support causes with the company I'd build. That's why I joined Stripe Climate from day 1. I'm hoping to increase that contribution over time and support other initiatives. For example, I'd like to sponsor WordPress core developers who don't get paid by their work to contribute to the project.
BUSINESS
You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes.
I have 3 customers! That's two more than expected considering I was my first customer lol. I think that's pretty amazing all things considered. I expected to still be at 1 when I sent this email.
I'm still not sure how I'll get to 10, but that's part of the journey. Whatever happens, I'm pretty excited to share it with you.
Ymir
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Greetings from Japan! I've been here for the past two weeks after going to WordCamp Asia. This is probably my last trip to Asia for the foreseeable future. I will probably go to CloudFest instead of WordCamp Asia next year. I can't afford to do both. There has been little work done on Ymir because I had friends visiting Tokyo until last week. I've also been...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Heya! A bit late sending this report again. The last two weeks have been challenging personally and I've just focused on myself more. I did manage to get some things done, but I mostly took time for myself. #selfcare I got one product and one marketing change out. Business is still roughly in the same shape as before. I'm still thinking about things and...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Happy Monday! I'm a bit delayed sending this report out. (It's also not really edited 😅) I got back home at midnight from WordCamp Phoenix. I gave the serverless WordPress talk I gave at WordCamp Asia last year. The talk went great and the WordCamp itself was surprisingly good. I didn't expect to network as well as at a flagship WordCamp. But I did so it feels...