Ymir Report #99 ā PressConf šµ
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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 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 event. I look forward to going back to it! PRODUCT You can always view the history of Ymir's product development at https://ymirapp.com/changelog. Not much is going on with the product right now. My current goal is to move Ymir to Ymir. There are a few things missing for this to happen. First, I'd like to add Postgres support. I'm thinking about moving from MySQL to Postgres as part of the migration. I'm still not 100% sure, so if you have any opinion on this, please let me know! Second, there are some infrastructure upgrades I'd like to do as well. My goal is to use this migration as an opportunity to put Ymir in a better position to handle future growth. It's definitely an upfront investment since it'll probably triple my AWS costs. MARKETING PressConf showed once more that I'm at my best when I can do in-person networking. I didn't have high hopes that the conference would be useful to Ymir. I'm glad that I was wrong! This doesn't change the fact that I need some way to do marketing outside of events like PressConf. Especially since I'm not doing well enough financially to travel this year. PressConf is currently the only international event I'm going to attend. (I wasn't even supposed to, but Raquel wouldn't accept it! š ) There won't be any WordCamp Europe this year, sadly. š BUSINESS You can always view Ymir's up-to-date business metrics at ymirapp.com/open. They're updated every 10 minutes. PressConf brought new leads for the BuiltFast partnership. I haven't been talking much about it, but it's still moving along. It's been slower than we'd like getting this going, but excited for some things I'll be able to talk about soon! š I still continue to think that the moment is here for serverless technology. It's been really interesting having this thesis for things and seeing it actually happen now. I had conversations at PressConf about topics I was talking about at WordCamp Asia 2023. 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 Big update today! I recorded the podcast with Jason Cohen last week. (It's not out yet since there's a backlog.) It wasn't a pleasant experience, but we came out of the 3h session with a game plan! That game plan is: Ymir for Agencies The old pricing page is now gone. The $39/month plan is gone. I've removed all the self-serve ways to upgrade your plan. I'll...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO The last few weeks have been busy with the neurodivergence talk I gave last week at Decoupled Days. I've been working on it for the past few months. But I had to wrap up the companion article (you can read it here) and do the slide deck. I'm really happy with how it all turned out. This was my first time in a while using AI outside of programming. The...
Heya friend! Carl here. You signed up to receive updates about Ymir, the WordPress serverless DevOps platform that Iām building. INTRO We're finally here! Yesterday, I used the World Cup final as a cover to perform the migration of Ymir off of Laravel Vapor. (Shows you how invested I was in it š ) I'd been working on this for the past few weeks, so everything went smoothly, including the MySQL to PostgreSQL migration. It's a bittersweet ending for me. Ymir only exists because Taylor built...