Ymir Report #77 ā New agency partner: 40Q!
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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 Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! š¦šØš¦ 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 week and everything went amazingly well! š„³ I'll talk more about it further down! PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. Consulting work really picked up and I'll be quite busy until American Thanksgiving. I still want to do a few Ymir things here and there, but I have to focus on that work for now. MARKETING Everything Ymir is on hold with the consulting work. That said, I want to work with 40Q to get a case study up as fast as possible. BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. I'm thrilled to have a second agency partner! This was a multiyear process with them. A lot of agencies are interested about Ymir when we talk about it at WordCamps. The challenge is always about finding the right project and client to use it. With 40Q, we finally had that opportunity with Open House New York. It's a once a year event where there's ticket sale (October 8th this year) where TONS of people hammer the site. Last year, they were on the largest non-enterprise plan of their host and the whole thing blew up. Because Open House New York is a non-profit, they're pretty price sensitive. So paying that much for hosting all year long and not have it perform on the one day they needed it to was a huge issue. I'm so happy the ticket sale went through with no issues this year! š„³ These are all things I'll cover in the case study. āMindsize also brought another client last month, and they've loved the product. All these little wins make me really happy. š Especially with all the other stuff going on. 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! 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 Iām 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...
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...