Heya friend!

Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building.

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INTRO

I'm happy to announce that I've finished the Arm powered runtimes! 🥳 Switching to Arm can boost your performance by up to 20%. Meanwhile, it also costs 20% less to run your WordPress with it. There's no reason not to use it as far as I know. I'll be making it the default soon.

I’ve also published the marketing article I wrote with ChatGPT. I find it ok for content that I don’t know that well. Can’t say I’d use it to write technical articles.

On the business side, May was one of my best months since I started! I'm heading to Greece for WordCamp Europe. I'm keeping my expectations to a minimum since WordCamp Asia didn't lead to that much in the end.

I'll be staying in Greece for most of June to work from there. But with WordCamp Europe, there might be some delay before the next report.

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PRODUCT

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

I finally got the build process for the runtimes to work thanks to Depot. They really saved my bacon for that. That's what allowed me to finish the Arm support. There are some improvements I want to do to the entire build process, but it's good enough for now.

I spent a good amount of time doing some bug fixes and improvements to the CLI. I have low hanging fruits on the Ymir Laravel application side that I want to tackle next.

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MARKETING

As I said, I finished my article for agencies that I wrote with ChatGPT.

​Why WordPress Agencies Should Pay Attention to Serverless >>​

I found the entire process ok. Especially compared to when I use ChatGPT for coding where it's just amazing. Maybe I have to keep practicing with it.

It's hard to get it to sound interesting. But also I'm not used to writing to agency owners or CTOs. So that could be the issue.

Anyhow, let me know what you think!

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BUSINESS

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

May was an amazing month. I added a net four subscribers! Really felt like the business had some wind behind it. In fact, I looked up for fun how many active subscribers deployed a project in the last week and it was 33% which is awesome!

Alas, this doesn't look like a new trend. June isn't looking good. There aren't many trials right now. There's still a week left for people to start trials that end in June. But, as things stand, I'll be happy if I have a flat month.

WordCamp Europe is this week. Looking forward to catching up with everyone. I might have an announcement around that time. It depends on what I can get done in the next few days before heading off.

Carl