Heya friend!
Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building.
INTRO
Well, we did it, fam! I finally reached $1k MRR. Ymir can officially pay my rent. (That's in theory! I still don't pay myself any money from Ymir.)
Otherwise, it's been a quiet December so far. I took last weekend off completely for the first time in months. (Binge watched Andor and played some games!) That was both a good and bad thing.
It was good because I didn't have my usual guilt whenever I take any sort of break. (Not a healthy mindset btw!) It was bad because I really feel a dam broke and I think I need to slow down a bit.
I'm also planning to take (or try to š ) some time completely off for the holidays. (More gaming and resting.) I don't know if I'll pull it off, but I'll try! I'm going to set an out of office message and everything.
PRODUCT
You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog.
No progress on the create project flow this cycle. I had a customer find a bunch of issues with the CloudFront image CDN that I fixed. This was good as I want the image CDN to be a feature people are really excited about.
It also gave me the opportunity to work more on it and a new feature. When you use the image CDN, WordPress won't generate any other image sizes anymore. You upload the original image and then the image CDN will take care of doing all the resizes.
MARKETING
Marketing week was pretty quiet. It was after my weekend off and I just struggled to find the motivation for it. I did write another thread on open source sustainability because Ymir now donates every 20th subscription to an open source project. š
December 7th 2022
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Otherwise, I've started working on my year in review. This is an important exercise for me, even if it's not marketing Ymir directly. I talk about Ymir a lot because it's a large part of my life.
And much like writing these reports, these year in reviews are a journaling tool for me. There are larger arcing thoughts that I have that don't really fit well in these reports. I also use it to journal my personal life, which is also good for me.
Besides that, I can officially say that I'll be speaking at the first WordCamp Asia next year! I missed the announcement in November! š It'll be another serverless talk, but I'm not sure I'll need to write an article for it.
I'll need to look into it after the holidays.
BUSINESS
You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes.
As I said in the intro, I officially hit my $1k MRR milestone. I shared the news on Twitter which always feels good!
December 1st 2022
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That said, it's more of a psychological milestone than a practical one. The only milestone that counts is when I'll be able to work on Ymir full time. That's still a FAR way off.
I honestly don't think I'll hit it next year. But those are thoughts better left for my year in review!
Carl
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām 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 Iām building. INTRO Happy Monday! I'm a bit delayed sending this report out. (It's also not really edited š ) 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...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Happy New Year! It's been a little bit since the last update. I hope you're doing well šI took some time off during the holidays, but a lot less than I probably should have or needed. I ended up doing some work anyways š« The big thing I did was write my year in review. This was a very draining exercise to do because I talk a lot about ADHD, mental breakdowns,...