[📝] Today Was #162: Strategic Retreat

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A day when I thought about how strategic retreat can be a choice for the next advance, not running away.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223966402065
• Naver published at: 2025/08/11 11:29 KST
• Original category: Today’s proof

Original

🗓️ Date: 2025.8.10 Sun

Goals: 0/0

To-dos: 0/1

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)

• ❌ Habit ALL Pass

🔂-♾️ Habit Management Routine System

Today’s Habits

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

• I know when to step back and do not stubbornly insist.

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

• Grateful that I could spend a healthy day without being sick.

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

🔂-💸 Bet Management Routine System

Ongoing Bets (⚠️ Required)

None

🤔 Brief Reflection

I decided to stop adding organization features to ‘iD Note,’ the lesson-record management and gamification app I was building…

There were an enormous number of various problems I had not expected at first.

Especially fatal flaws in the DB design… Mountains of migration work and all kinds of large-scale fixes made my head throb.

If I had designed it solidly around organization features from the beginning, maybe it would be different, but trying to change it midway made it impossible to see an answer. Of course, when using Claude Code, those situations where I could not see an answer did get solved.

But the core app of Life RPG is not ‘iD Note’; it is ‘Oharu.’ I cannot keep holding onto only this app forever.

Of course, that does not mean I plan to abandon the app.

I will remove all organization features, update small gamification features little by little, and watch the response.

For now, what I expect from the iD Note app is as follows.

1. Test the possibility of a B2B model

• Verify whether it is a tool individual lesson teachers can actually use usefully

• Serve as a prototype that can later be proposed to academies or educational institutions

• If needed, configure a separate page only for a ‘specific organization,’ as now.

1. A testing ground for gamification mechanisms

• Test what reward systems are actually effective for motivating students

• Verify the effectiveness of levels, badges, point systems, and so on

• Secure insights that can later be applied to the ‘Oharu’ app

1. Collect real user feedback

• Collect needs/responses from businesses and general users

1. A stepping stone for improving development skills

• Grow through various issues encountered while operating a real-use app

• Build the ability to properly implement organization features later

For now, I will focus on improving the completeness of the core features, and I believe that once it becomes an app that can deliver enough value, opportunities for expansion will naturally come again.

So I will leave organization features as homework for later, and right now focus more on the ‘Oharu’ app and improving my development skills.

Is this a strategic retreat? Or an escape-like surrender? I think the boundary can be distinguished by whether my inner self is full of a clear vision.