[📝] Today Was #153: Why Developers Pull All-Nighters

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A day when I physically felt why developers stay up all night and saw the line between immersion and overdoing it.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223956008540
• Naver published at: 2025/08/02 09:47 KST
• Original category: Today’s proof

Original

🗓️ Date: 2025.8.1 Fri

Goals: 1/1

To-dos: 0/0

Habits: 3/3

Bets: 2

🔂-🎯 Goal Management Routine System

Lifetime Goals

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Reach more than 1 million monthly active users (MAU)

Goals for 2025

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 2025.07

  Complete the first draft of the Life RPG plan

• 🎯 Temporary roadmap (not final): develop at least five built-in apps (modules) for the Life RPG platform

• 🎯 2025.08

  Gurumiya

• A gamification app that stores academy/PT lesson records and lets users gain experience and level up through attendance checks, homework, and more

• 🎯 2025.09

  Oharu (Today Was)

• A daily-life gamification app with an internal social feature for setting today’s goals and sharing completion status with friends

• 🎯 2025.10

  Pianolic

• A music gamification app for managing piano practice records and collecting practiced pieces and albums

• 🎯 2025.11

  Running Party

• A running gamification app that tracks running records and offers running matching with nearby users

• 🎯 2025.12

  Auto Vibe

• An education gamification app that gathers tips and lessons on automation tools and vibe coding and suggests learning guidelines for each user’s goal

• 🎯 2026.01

  Open the Life Store

• Officially open the Life Store, the platform’s core. Users can buy app access rights in the store, and developers can register new apps.

• 🎯 2026.02

  Apply for the Preliminary Startup Package

• Apply for the government-supported Preliminary Startup Package to validate business potential and secure support for platform growth and stable operation.

• [Gurumiya]

• 🎯 Build a B2B model as SaaS (admin/teacher-centered update)

• 🎯 Register on the App Store / Play Store

• 🎯 Add B2C elements to the B2B model: integrated data management across all lesson organizations (student-centered update)

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 10 kg (85 kg -> 75 kg)

August Goals

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 Draft the Life RPG plan

• 🎯 Think through platform-related business and revenue models

• 🎯 Consider a B2B pivot

• 🎯 Market research: planning document, included apps, business and revenue models, … (+ AI)

• 🎯 Validate core hypotheses: collect materials on the effectiveness of gamification

• 🎯 Survey

• 🎯 Organize the content in Notion Workspace

• [Gurumiya]

• 🎯 Build a B2B model as SaaS (admin/teacher-centered update)

• 🎯 Register on the App Store / Play Store

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 2.5 kg (84.5 kg -> 82.0 kg)

Goals for the Fourth Week of July

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• None

• [Gurumiya]

• ✅ Shift direction to SaaS

• 🎯 Stabilize the organization management system

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 0.5 kg (85.0 kg -> 84.5 kg)

Today’s Goals (⚠️ Required)

• ✅ iD Note: Restore DB/features to normal

🔂-📌 To-do Management Routine System

Today’s To-dos (⚠️ Required)

• None

🔂-♾️ Habit Management Routine System

Today’s Habits

• ✅ Strength: At least one strength I discovered in myself today

• Even when I face a major obstacle, I do not give up and keep clinging to the problem until it is solved.

• ✅ Gratitude: At least one thing I was grateful for today

• Grateful for the precious people who understand even my clumsy mistakes.

• ✅ Routine: Check today’s goals / to-dos / habits

🔂-💸 Bet Management Routine System

Ongoing Bets (⚠️ Required)

• ~2025.8.2

  💸 Penalty: 50,000 won (prepaid)

• Reach 84.5 kg body weight

• 2025.7.26: 86.2Kg

• 2025.7.27: 86.8Kg (+0.6)

• 2025.7.28: 85.7Kg (-1.1)

• 2025.7.29: 85.0Kg (-0.7)

• 2025.7.30: 84.5Kg (-0.5)

• 2025.8.1: 85.0Kg (+0.5)

• 🏆 Success reward: none

• ~2025.8.15

  💸 Penalty: 50,000 won

• Convert the organization-specific service (iD Diary) into a SaaS service (Gurumiya)

• Submit for App Store / Play Store review

• 🏆 Success reward: Magikarp figure

🤔 Brief Reflection

…

Why do developers pull all-nighters?

When my mistake wrecks the service and user trust is hitting rock bottom.

Ha… I did grind my life into it, but fixing the bug successfully still feels satisfying.

Claude Code, you damn thing.

You really are a sharp, awkward, foolish genius…

I will not take my eyes off you so easily again.

For failing to give specific instructions,

my fault…

my fault…