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 part that logs all the team's activity.

Everything else is pretty quiet right now.

PRODUCT

You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog.

As I mentioned, I'm working on an activity feed. It'll track all your team's activity such as deployments, resource creation, modification, etc. The goal of the feature was to surface a lot of the application events so that you know what's going on with your Ymir-managed infrastructure.

​Spatie which makes a lot of Laravel packages had an activity log package. Unfortunately, it was too limited for what I had in mind. There were some things I needed that it didn't do such as:

• Save model details even if Ymir had deleted the model in the database
• Keep track of event context so we can filter by project, resource, etc.

Right now, the logging of activity shipped. So Ymir is recording your team's activity. I'll fix things if I see any issues with the recording.

Otherwise, I started working on the frontend. Here's a small test feed I'm playing with to see how I can display the information.

This is still a work in progress. Design always bogs me down because I want it to look ok 😅

MARKETING

Still no progress on the case study. I mentioned I wanted to start doing higher education events this year. So I applied to speak at WP Campus.

BUSINESS

You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes.

Business is still flat. Losing a customer this month. I have some discovery calls this week so that's good. Also working to launch my enterprise customer soon.

Still thinking about the agency pricing. I'm thinking of maybe going in a similar direction to the personal plan. Lower the cost, remove the unlimited projects and make it a fixed number of projects.

Carl