Even with constant feedback from our dev team, they were not getting any better. Things came to a head in 2022 when they replaced both of our agents at once with two agents who were very poor. Unfortunately, over the following couple of years, those agents where replaced twice and each time the quality went down. But going from six developers to three and with our three having to do A TON of support, I need to adjust my expectations.īack in 2020, we hired two agents through Bobcares (a customer support agency that specializes in web hosting) and they were great. Our coaching feature, a new domain management UI, Linode as an integrated provider, etc. I think part of the reason I feel like we ought to have shipped more is that we have a lot of projects partially complete right now.
It’s both exciting and daunting to be building up a small, lean team with very limited resources again. We’re currently hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer and will be looking to bring on some talented folks to fill other roles as well this year. It was very difficult to let people go of course, but at least I was able to give them each generous severance pay.
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Unfortunately, SpinupWP does not currently bring in enough revenue to afford the six developer team we had plus the other roles we require going forward, so I had to release a couple of developers and a video producer. Though Ash gave notice in December and will be moving on in 2023 after a solid eight years working with the company. We also retained Daniel (Developer), George (Senior Developer), James (Senior Developer), and Ash (Lead Developer). Lewis (Senior Designer), Caillie (Marketing Manager), and Sam (Marketing Manager) are continuing on with me, dedicated to SpinupWP. For example, Lewis and Dale, our designers, worked across all the plugins as well as SpinupWP. Under Delicious Brains, many of the roles were shared across the plugins and SpinupWP. The transition was wrapped up at the very end of 2022, so I’m very much looking forward to 2023 focused on SpinupWP. It was also very important to me that plugin customers were taken care of, that the transition was smooth and painless for them, and we achieved that.
I couldn’t be happier with the outcome for myself personally but also the very meaningful bonuses that I was able to gift members of the team that have been with me for many years. The headline for 2022 is definitely the acquisition of the Delicious Brains plugins by WP Engine.
This is my eighth year in review post since I started writing them:Ģ014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.īut this one is very different… Exiting the Plugin Business We had a blast of a SpinupWP company retreat, shipped lots of awesome stuff, and despite some sputtering on the marketing side, it was a good year. TL DR – I sold the plugins side of the business to WP Engine, a small contingent is continuing on with me, focused entirely on SpinupWP.
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