Heya friend!
Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building.
INTRO
August continues being August. Not going crazy on the development front. Just continuing to do small changes here and there.
I'm starting to plan for larger features again. Might start on those next cycle.
PRODUCT
You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog.
Product development was pretty active behind the scenes. There weren't too many public facing changes. I merged a PR by a customer to allow SFTP passwords when importing your uploads directory. I also made the Ymir plugin disable search engine indexing if you're only using a vanity domain.
Behind the scenes, I managed to get Papertrail to work with Laravel Vapor. Papertrail is an awesome log management service. So I spent a good part of the cycle adding logging to Ymir. This isn't the most consumer centric change, but it's useful to see what's happening inside Ymir when I'm doing support.
I also wrapped up my first small polish pass at the dashboard. You now a bit more details whenever you're viewing your team resources.
I plan on continuing to slowly build out the dashboard. It's a bit slower than the other development because of the design element.
MARKETING
Marketing week wasn't the craziest. I didn't get any questions for the Q&A, so didn't record anything. But I actually saw another Twitter thread with questions and comments which I should do videos on.
I did a small post on my website about using Papertrail with Laravel Vapor. Wasn't Ymir specific, but I was happy to write something.
I also wrote a guide on how to map a domain to a project environment. I continue to invest heavily in the documentation because, as a developer focused product, I think it'll have great ROI in the long term.BUSINESS
You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes.
August is usually a slow month. However, a lot of people are discussing that June, July and August have been slower than usual this year. I'm too small to notice this still, but it's interesting to know.
In fact, Ymir continues to grow. I'm up one customer this month for a total of 15. I lost two and gained three.
I've also received a lot of inbound interest in the last two weeks. Including those, I'm also getting consulting requests and migration requests. So much so that I added a question to the FAQ on the pricing page.
I don't know how well it'll all translate to the business. But it's still nice :)
Carl
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Heya! I did it! I have my first case study 🥳 Otherwise, I had a good time at WordCamp Europe. I had some good discussions there about the state of the hosting industry. They make me feel good about the long-term viability of Ymir, but doesn't really help in the short run. There hasn't been a lot of movement on the product this month. I came from Europe with...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Heya! Ymir was a bit more in the back seat in May as I focused on consulting work. This is more important as I'm still losing customers. Ymir won't be a full-time endeavour any time soon. I still want to do reports every two weeks. That said, I might skip here and there if there's not much to talk about. Not my ideal scenario, but I'm running a marathon so I...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Heya! Quiet cycle. Now that I'm done with the maintenance work, I'm back to working on the product. I'm slowly working towards the project creation feature, but I wanted to work on something smaller first. I ended up deciding to work on an activity feed. It's not such a small feature that I could ship it in two weeks. But I was able to wrap up and ship the...