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:
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 |
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! 🦃🇨🇦 I want to keep this report positive today. I'll discuss the WordPress situation and Ymir once I've had time to process things some more. It's been a lot for everyone. On happier news, I'm delighted to say I have my second agency partner: 40Q! We launched their first project last month. The real test for the platform was last...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Heya! It's been a week since I came back from WCUS. I think it was one of the best venues I've been to. I had a really great time, and it felt good to catch up with friends. A few parties showed a lot of interest around my consulting work. So that was good! The whole mood of the conference was soured by Matt's Q&A session. Without rehashing the whole drama,...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Heya! I hope you had a wonderful summer! I've been slowly getting back into the spin of things. I think taking a bit of time away from Ymir was helpful. I'm excited to get back to working on it. The business itself is still not doing that great. I think I'm near the subscriber floor. That said, I'm not getting any new trials, so there's no growth at the...