Heya friend!
Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iβm building.
INTRO
I wanted to thank everyone who reached out after the last report. It was really nice. βΊοΈ
I'm still quite tired. I think I'm slowly getting better. I'm sleeping more, but not as much as I should because I feel guilty about not working. π
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This is the fun stuff of starting a business. There's always work to feel guilty about not doing. I'm better at it now, but it's a constant challenge!
Otherwise, I managed to get some bug fixes and improvements out for the Ymir plugin. Patrick Garman from Mindsize has been good at finding bugs for me to fix! π There's still some more in the CLI and elsewhere. It's nice to have someone who wants to improve the product βΊοΈ
PRODUCT
You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog.
Nothing to show here this cycle. Most of the changes to the Ymir plugin are under the hood. I'm actually enjoying being able to do some cleanup and improvements like the logs last cycle. I have a pretty long list of things I want to fix or improve.
I will probably keep doing this in the near term.
MARKETING
I mentioned Mindsize earlier. They're using Ymir more and more. (Their marketing site uses it now, for example.) Patrick is going to write me a testimonial, but also I want them on an agency page that I've been thinking about.
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Just been too tired to do it. Going to try really hard this coming cycle π
BUSINESS
You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes.
No major changes here. I'm still talking with big companies and agencies. It's still a very slow process. π«
September looks like a net loss of three subscribers. It's a huge bummer. I was looking forward to hitting that 40 subscriber mark and donating another subscription. But that's not looking like a 2023 thing unless I have a crazy month π
On the more boring side, my year end is coming up. It'll be time to do taxes and all that fun stuff. I'm doing a decent amount of money, so I expect it to hurt more this year. I started expensing some things (like the WordCamp US trip) against the company, but I might need to do more of that from now on.
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...