Ymir Report #72 — Activity feed phase 1
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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 |
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Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Slowly getting back into the groove of things. I'm not working as hard as before the burnout. I still have days where I work for an hour and that fries my brain. I still get the itch to work on the product though! So I've been just doing smaller chunks of work. That still lets me ship things like PostgreSQL support! PRODUCT You can always view the history of...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. This isn't the hundredth report I was planning to write. I wrote my previous report so sure I was close to the finish line of moving off Vapor. I was so happy that I'd nail the timing. The title wrote itself, "Ymir Report #100 — Ymir on Ymir". (That's a lot of "Ymir" in the same sentence! 🤣) But life is nothing but full of irony. The day after I sent that report, my...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that I’m building. INTRO Been a little while since the last report! Unfortunately, not much has happened since the last update. I got a pretty nasty cold that knocked me out for more than a week. I then had to shift to consulting work to pay my bills. 😅 Following the consulting work, I flew out to Phoenix for PressConf. I'll talk more about it later. But Raquel created an exceptional...