[📝] Today Was #159: Trying the AI Automation Tool Make

✨ Gemini 2.5 Pro Summary

A day when I tried the AI automation tool Make and touched both the possibilities and limits of automation.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223963332825
• Naver published at: 2025/08/08 10:15 KST
• Original category: Today’s proof

Original

🗓️ Date: 2025.8.7 Thu

Goals: 0/0

To-dos: 2/2

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)

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

• 🎯 2025.08

  iD Note

• 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.

• [iD Note]

• 🎯 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

• [iD Note]

• 🎯 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 First Week of August

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• None

• [iD Diary]

• 🎯 Optimize mobile UI

• 🎯 Stabilize the organization management system

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 0.5 kg (84.5 kg -> 84.0 kg)

Today’s Goals (⚠️ Required)

• None

🔂-📌 To-do Management Routine System

Today’s To-dos (⚠️ Required)

• ✅ Attend an AI automation social gathering

• ✅ Submit self-growth record

🔂-♾️ Habit Management Routine System

Today’s Habits

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

• I am always open to new experiences.

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

• Grateful to the Lord and my parents for giving me the ability to learn new things quickly.

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

🔂-💸 Bet Management Routine System

Ongoing Bets (⚠️ Required)

• ~2025.8.9

  💸 Penalty: none

• Reach 84.0 kg body weight

• 2025.8.3: 85.3

• 2025.8.4: 85.7

• 2025.8.5: 85.5

• 2025.8.6: 85.0

• 2025.8.7: 84.8

• 🏆 Success reward: recover the prepaid 50,000 won

• ~2025.8.15

  💸 Penalty: 50,000 won

• Convert iD Diary from an organization-specific service into a SaaS service

• Submit for App Store / Play Store review

• 🏆 Success reward: Magikarp figure

🤔 Brief Reflection

I tried the AI automation tool Make.

For now, my user impression is about, ‘Not bad.’

The reason it is not ‘good’ but only ‘not bad’ is its absurd stability.

1. Yesterday (25.8.7), I definitely created a scenario connecting Google Sheets -> Gemini AI -> Google Docs modules, but when I checked today (25.8.8), it had not been saved and only Google Sheets was left dangling there.

2. Yesterday, when connecting Google Sheets -> Gemini AI, I could see the text in each Google Sheets cell, but today I could not see it at all. Was the module setting wrong? No, not that either.

If an app already creaks like this after just one day of use, I think it will only give me more stress.

It might be better to move to n8n, or use Claude Code to pull APIs directly and get the experience of building an automation tool myself.