Ymir Report #71 ā Maintenance and upgrades
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Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO Hey there! It's been a few weeks since my last update. My time in Japan wasn't as productive as I'd hoped it to be. The time zone wasn't friendly to me this time around and I wasn't able to get into a good work groove.Because of that, I mainly focused on consulting work and had nothing to share related to Ymir. I did manage to get some work done towards the end of my time there. Most of it focused on maintenance work. The frontend got some much needed love. I'll talk more about it in the product section. Otherwise, business is stable. PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. Most of the product work done this month was around maintenance of the Ymir code base. I've done a lot of consulting work where product owners don't do this work, and I have to come in and clean everything up. I want to stay on top of it so that doesn't happen. (Also my product is my garden so I can do what I want š) The largest and most time-consuming upgrade was Livewire 3. Livewire 3 was a complete rewrite of Livewire. A lot of stuff broke. I'm thankful for my test suite for finding everything. š I upgraded Ymir to Laravel 11. Fun fact, Ymir started as a Laravel 6 application. So this is my fifth upgrade. I do them every major release. I also did some frontend upgrades. Mostly just making sure Tailwind is up to date. I added some linting tools to help clean up the frontend code. These upgrades made the frontend feel a lot snappier. I still could do some more performance optimization there. But mainly I wanted to get to a point where I could release frontend changes at a faster pace. This is where I want to focus most of my energy over the coming months. MARKETING I wasn't able to get in touch with Ryan in the last month. So no progress on the case study. I hope to get that done soon. BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. Small growth this month. But I'd say the business is stable at the moment. I'm still working on closing my first enterprise customer. I hope this can happen in the next month. They'd have a cool case study for Ymir as well, which is exciting! Carl |
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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...