Ymir Report #73 ā Slow May & WordCamp Europe
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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! Ymir was a bit more in the back seat in May as I focused on consulting work. This is more important as I'm still losing customers. Ymir won't be a full-time endeavour any time soon. I still want to do reports every two weeks. That said, I might skip here and there if there's not much to talk about. Not my ideal scenario, but I'm running a marathon so I need to adjust the pace if I have to. It's also WordCamp Europe next week! I'll be there if you want to say hi! PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. I've been monitoring the activity log and making a few fixes. There's been close to 1,000 log entries made in the last month. I'm excited about how it's working right now. Work has started on the dashboard side to display the information. I'm hoping I can get it done this month. I also have a customer who might need RDS Proxy. So support for that might come soon! š MARKETING I actually got accepted to WP Campus to speak, but I realized I couldn't go in person this year. š« They do hybrid, but I really didn't want to waste the networking opportunity. It's a real bummer, as I would have really liked to go. Still waiting to do some case studies. It's hard to get people to sit down to do them š WordCamp Europe is next week. We'll see what networking opportunities I have there. It's always a good time anyhow! BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. Business continues to suffer. I'm down to 30 subscribers, which is where I was in March last year. I've also lost my only "Carl-as-a-Service" customer, so that's more lost income. Overall, I still feel good about the business. I really wish I could work on it full time. Serverless is a great technology that removes a lot of the burden of managing infrastructure. I also know that it's on some hosting companies' radar. That said, there are a lot of challenges to using it with WordPress. The more I work with customers, the more obvious it is. This makes it unlikely that Ymir will ever be a product with a lot of customers. That's why I take a really long-term view on the technology. I think more and more of the PHP ecosystem will adopt it. This will put some pressure on WordPress to make itself easier to use with it. That's why I keep saying I run a marathon šāāļø 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 This is the report I've been waiting to write for so long. Laravel support is finally here! I shipped the last part yesterday, which was the new CLI version. (You need version 2.1.0 to create a Laravel project.) This is an important milestone, but there's still work to do. The next phase is to migrate Ymir to Ymir. There's still some missing pieces for that to...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. On February 19th, 2021, I wrote the first Ymir report. I had in mind that I'd try to do a report on February 19th to celebrate the five-year milestone. As you can see, I wasn't able to do it. š The reason was that I wrapped up my gigantic 14,000 word year in review two days before. I was and still am quite drained from the endeavour. 2025 was an eventful year for me...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO I've been hard at work trying to wrap up Laravel support. I'm close enough that I can start talking about it and marketing it. (Yes, marketing! š¤£) I started a waitlist so that I can contact anyone who's interested when it's shipped in beta. My goal is to migrate Ymir in March if all goes well. PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product...