[📝] Today Was #189: Services With/Without Market Response

✨ Gemini 2.5 Pro’s Summary 　

A day when I sharpened my sense of reality by looking at the difference between services that have market response and services that do not.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/224005116323
• Naver publication time: 2025/09/12 12:08 KST
• Original category: Today’s Proof

Original Text

🗓️ Date: 2025.9.11 Thu

Goals: 1/1

Tasks: 1/1

Habits: 3/3

Bet: 1 item

🔂-🎯 Goal Management Routine System

Lifetime Goal

• [Life RPG]

• 🎯 Reach over 1 million monthly active users (MAU)

2025 Goals

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• 🎯 Write the first draft of the Life RPG planning document

• 🎯 Design platform-related business and revenue models

• 🎯 Consider B2B conversion

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

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

• 🎯 Survey

• 🎯 Organize hypothesis-related materials in Notion Workspace

• 🎯 Temporary roadmap: release at least 2 built-in apps (modules) for the Life RPG platform

• ✅ 2025.08

  iD Note - Web app release

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

• 🎯 2025.09

  Oharu (Today Was) - Native/web app release

• A daily-life gamification app with an internal SNS feature where users set today’s goals and share whether they achieved them with friends

• 🎯 2025.10

  iD Note - Native app release

• Add organization-related features

• Migrate to Supabase

• 🎯 2025.11

  New app release or YouTube restart, SNS marketing/promotion

• 🎯 2026.02

  Challenge the Preliminary Startup Package

• To grow the platform and operate it stably, challenge the government-supported Preliminary Startup Package to validate business potential and secure support.

• [Reading]

• ✅ Men Who Let Go of Desperation ㅡ Mark Manson

• 🎯 Fail Fast, Fail Often ㅡ John Krumboltz · Ryan Babineaux

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 14.5kg (89.5kg → 75kg)

September Goals

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• Oharu (Today Was)

• 🎯 Try distributing the APK file by ~9.15

• 🎯 Try registering on the Google Play Store by ~9.30

• [Reading]

• Fail Fast, Fail Often ㅡ John Krumboltz / Ryan Babineaux

• 🎯 373/373p

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 5kg (88kg → 83.0kg)

Goals for the Second Week of September

• [Life RPG] (liferpg.online)

• Oharu (Today Was)

• ✅ Write PRD (a daily-life gamification app with an internal SNS feature where users set today’s goals and share whether they achieved them with friends)

• 🎯 Try distributing the APK file by ~9.15

• [Reading]

• Fail Fast, Fail Often ㅡ John Krumboltz / Ryan Babineaux

• 🎯 100/373p

• [Health]

• 🎯 Lose 1.5kg (87.0kg → 85.5kg)

Today’s Goals (⚠️ Required)

• ✅ Oharu: Complete quest-add feature

🔂-📌 Task Management Routine System

Today’s Tasks (⚠️ Required)

• ✅ 10 push-ups

🔂-♾️ Habit Management Routine System

Today’s Habits

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

• I listen to other people’s thoughts and advice.

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

• Grateful to the many people who provided insights that will help in many ways.

• ✅ Routine: Today’s goals / tasks / habit check

🔂-💸 Bet Management Routine System

Ongoing Bet (⚠️ Required)

• 🎯 Yo-yo Recovery Challenge (🏆 Reward: recover the 100,000 won put up for the bet)

• By [9.30], 88.0 → 83.0kg

• [9.1] 88.0, [9.2] 87.5

• [9.8] 87.0, [9.9] 86.7, [9.10] 86.5, [9.11] 86.8

🤔 Short Reflection

No matter how long and carefully I make an app, if nobody uses it, it can easily become self-satisfaction.

Do not forget. The “Life RPG” I want to make must not become a self-satisfaction service. Somehow, it has to move in a way that fits market response.

And do not forget. The “iD Note” I made is already a service with clear and meaningful market response. Leaving that response unattended simply because it is “less interesting than Life RPG” is a very foolish thing to do.

The experience of operating a service whose market need is guaranteed to some extent is not something anyone can have.

Do not become lazy.

I have to realize my dream, and I also have to look at my reality.