Heya friend!
Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building.
INTRO
Happy New Year!
I hope you had a wonderful holiday. COVID is wrecking through Canada. Quebec has been lockdown, and we also had a curfew for two weeks.
I didn't end up being able to take two weeks. Only the first week of January. This isn't ideal as I still feel overstretched, but it'll do for now.
Outside of that, it's back to work as usual. I ramped things back up pretty quickly.
PRODUCT
You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog.
I've spent most of this cycle working on the Ymir CLI. I did some quality of life changes. I still have some more that I didn't get to finish during the cycle.
Beyond that, I'm starting to think about larger features I want to work on. I'm struggling a bit with them because they're large and require a decent amount of research and discovery. They don't fit well in the current two-week cycle. I discussed it on Twitter:
January 20th 2022
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For now, I'm sticking with the two-week cycle. I'm working on another paid migration, so it doesn't quite make sense to go full time on larger features yet. I also need more time to think about how I want to restructure things.
MARKETING
I published the huge CloudFront guide I worked on last month! It did well and I'm still happy with my overall content marketing strategy. I also tweeted about the article a bit.
January 18th 2022
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I don't have larger marketing plans at the moment. I don't think I can take on doing a webinar at the moment. If anything, I'd like to maybe do more YouTube videos.
I've also applied to two conferences: Dutch PHP Conference and WordCamp Europe. I really miss conferences as a marketing channel. So I'm excited to see some coming back for the summer. I just hope it'll be safe to be together again by then. š¤
BUSINESS
You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes.
Business continues to grow. I have 3 active trials currently and I'm feeling confident that most will convert. I haven't had cancellations either which feels good! This means that I should hit 20 subscribers soon.
I'm still far from Ymir paying much of anything. In fact, I make so little my new accountant (last one ghosted...) said I didn't have to pay taxes lol! But it's still progress š
I'm thinking a lot about how I want Ymir to fit my life. I discussed it in my year in review. For now, with COVID, I don't need to worry too much about it. But long term I want Ymir to be my garden. But for that, it needs to keep growing to a point where it can support me.
Carl
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Heya! I did it! I have my first case study š„³ 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 Iām 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 Iām 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...