Ymir Report #77 ā New agency partner: 40Q!
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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 Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! š¦šØš¦ I want to keep this report positive today. I'll discuss the WordPress situation and Ymir once I've had time to process things some more. It's been a lot for everyone. On happier news, I'm delighted to say I have my second agency partner: 40Q! We launched their first project last month. The real test for the platform was last week and everything went amazingly well! š„³ I'll talk more about it further down! PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. Consulting work really picked up and I'll be quite busy until American Thanksgiving. I still want to do a few Ymir things here and there, but I have to focus on that work for now. MARKETING Everything Ymir is on hold with the consulting work. That said, I want to work with 40Q to get a case study up as fast as possible. BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. I'm thrilled to have a second agency partner! This was a multiyear process with them. A lot of agencies are interested about Ymir when we talk about it at WordCamps. The challenge is always about finding the right project and client to use it. With 40Q, we finally had that opportunity with Open House New York. It's a once a year event where there's ticket sale (October 8th this year) where TONS of people hammer the site. Last year, they were on the largest non-enterprise plan of their host and the whole thing blew up. Because Open House New York is a non-profit, they're pretty price sensitive. So paying that much for hosting all year long and not have it perform on the one day they needed it to was a huge issue. I'm so happy the ticket sale went through with no issues this year! š„³ These are all things I'll cover in the case study. āMindsize also brought another client last month, and they've loved the product. All these little wins make me really happy. š Especially with all the other stuff going on. 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 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 Iām 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 ā Ymir on Ymir". (That's a lot of "Ymir" in the same sentence! š¤£) 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 Iām 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. š Following the consulting work, I flew out to Phoenix for PressConf. I'll talk more about it later. But Raquel created an exceptional...