Heya friend!
Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iβm building.
INTRO
Work continues on the image CDN feature. It's now in early access. (Ask me about it if you want to start using it!) There's still work left to do. I'll discuss it in the product section.
I'm still slacking on marketing. I'm hoping this is the last report I'll say this π€. I plan on doing write up(s) on the image CDN, how it works, and how you can build your own with CloudFront.
PRODUCT
You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog.
Like I said, I've done a soft launch of the image CDN feature. You can see some traces of it already in the application.
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March 30th 2022
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Right now, it only handles image optimization and webp conversion. The rest of the features (such as dynamic resizing) need me to do work on the Ymir WordPress plugin. I started working on it and I hope to wrap it up this week.
Once that's wrapped up, I plan on probably working on the dashboard. I get support emails about it pretty regularly because it's an unfinished state. (Always be embarrassed about your first version, right!? π )
MARKETING
No marketing at all this cycle except applying to conferences. I do see conferences as a good marketing channel, but it's definitely not as good as writing an article. Gotta keep building up Ymir's SEO!
BUSINESS
You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes.
March ended with a net +1 customer. So not bad, but it'd be nice if this was a +2 or +3. I don't feel there's much momentum to the business yet. But itβs possible this is going to always be a super niche product with slow growth like this.
April will be an interesting month. I have some cancellations from March and some active trials. Not sure where it'll end up. Right now, I'm up one customer.
I'm also inching closer to that $1,000 MRR milestone. (Three customers to go!) This would technically allow Ymir to pay my rent. In practice, it probably won't change anything.
I haven't paid myself anything with the money Ymir made yet. I haven't really thought about when I'd want to start paying myself. For now, my consulting gigs pay me more than enough. So maybe the better option is to reinvest it into the business somehow.
Carl
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iβm building. INTRO Heya! It's been a little while since the last report. December was super busy and then I had some unfortunate events during the holiday and in January which delayed a lot of stuff. I'm still not done writing my year in review because of them π«£π There's actually been quite a bit of work done on the product since the last update. The biggest new feature is PHP...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iβm building. INTRO I hope everyone in the USA had a great Thanksgiving! π¦ Well, if October was busy, November was even more so! I had a lot of contract work. I was also lucky that some clients postponed some of it until this month or next year. One difference with October is that some of my consulting work was Ymir related! This allowed me to get some bug fixes in, as well as...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iβm building. INTRO It's been a busy October for me on the consulting front. Lots of contracts and I have some new ones starting next month as well. I wish I had some time to dedicate to Ymir, but I have to prioritize that work. Especially since 2024 was a slower year for me and Ymir's business shrunk. I figured this was a good time to do some writing on the current WP...