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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. Life is never short on irony. A few hours after I sent the last report saying how grateful I was for the partnership, I learned that Paul Carter, the CEO of BuiltFast, had died suddenly. I can't claim to have known Paul well. It hasn't even been a year since BuiltFast and I started negotiating our partnership. That said, I tend to be a good judge of character, and I...
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...