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sumof: patch notes 1.0.6

- Sumof is now easier to navigate and manage, with clearer change summaries, improved selection controls, and support for more languages. The update has just been submitted for review, but it will probably take a while, so I’m writing this post ahead of time. Adding more languages to Sumof was something I had wanted to do for a while. This update finally does that, including the App Store description and screenshots. Apps without Korean support are easy for me to skip. Even when the language itself is not a problem, the app somehow feels like it may not be supported very well. So this feels like a pretty big step in marketing the app. For the next update, I’d like to improve the design and onboarding.
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requote: patch notes 1.1.8

- This update brings Library to iPhone and iPad, adds a one-time purchase option, and includes design refinements throughout the app. I am writing this before the review has finished, again. The less charming part is that Sumof’s last review is still sitting there too. I checked the obvious places: agreements, account notices, tax and banking, anything that might quietly stop a review before it starts. Nothing. I cancelled the submission and sent it again, partly to see if it had fallen into some invisible stuck state. That was about a week ago. It is still waiting. Korean developer communities have their own theory now: the review queue is slower for the flood of newly vibe-coded apps, while ordinary updates are still getting through. Maybe. I am not exactly outside that category, but Sumof is also not a first-day experiment with no history. It has been on the store for a while. It has some downloads. If that is the reason, I am not sure there is much I can do about it. I have also se...

sumof: patch notes 1.0.5

Bug fixes and performance improvements. The review is still pending, but I am writing this before I forget. App Review feels slower than usual this time. Maybe the queue is heavier these days. I do not know about other countries, but in Korea I keep seeing people outside software development trying to build apps and submit them to the App Store, myself included. I had just stepped out to buy coffee when Sumof sent me a notification. The notification ended up using both Japanese and Korean, but it was telling me that the whipping cream expires today. I would have forgotten it otherwise. The localization clearly still needs work, but the app did what I needed it to do. It remembered something for me at the right time. A lot can still fail, but this is why I wanted to make it. I am not sure what should come next. The App Store side still needs work: the icon, the screenshots, and the description. But inside the app, I do not think the next useful changes are more features. Onboarding and ...

3 months of sumof: the numbers nobody asked for

apr 11, 2026 — may 10, 2026 impressions: 213 (last month: 245) product page views: 23 (last month: 18) downloads: 0 (last month: 1) revenue: US$0 (last month: 4.24) active devices: not enough data (last month: not enough data) deletions: not enough data (last month: not enough data) may 11, 2026 — jun 9, 2026 impressions: 256 (last month: 213) product page views: 25 (last month: 23) downloads: 1 (last month: 0) revenue: US$4.63 (last month: 0) active devices: not enough data (last month: not enough data) deletions: not enough data (last month: not enough data) my best guess I skipped last month because downloads were zero. This month had one download, so I am writing the check-in. The page views are still small: 23 last month, 25 this month. I was not sure how much of that was because Sumof is still a new app, how much was an App Store optimization problem, and how much was just the reality of a paid app, so I asked Codex to look at it. Codex's answer was roughly this. The app bein...

day 317: 31 posts

App revenue: $9.25 / $99 (due: July 29) I already wrote about this in another post , so I will keep this part short here. YouTube: 60 / 100 subscribers I originally had a December 5 deadline and a 1,000-hour watch time goal here, but I decided to remove both. I want to keep running YouTube the way I am now until I reach 100 subscribers. After that, I will decide what to do next. Books finished: 33 / 50 (due: June 30)  33 / 100 (due: December 31) I did not expect to be calling this goal a failure. I like reading books. But something has been off lately. These days, no matter what I read, my heart starts racing in a bad way, and I have a hard time focusing on the actual book. I cannot tell if the world has become more anxious, or if it is just me. Making the goal stricter does not seem like it would help much, so I am changing the reading goal to 100 books by the end of the year. Blog: 31 / 30 posts, 443 / 500 views (due: June 16) Even if everything else fails, at least I reached the...

a guide to making money in the age of ai (not by me)

I suddenly felt anxious today. A thought kept coming back: I am falling further behind, spending my days on things that may not lead anywhere. It has already been six months since I started YouTube, and seven months since I released my first app, Requote. The money earned from all of this is still $0. (Sumof has made about $10, to be fair.) The money spent is much higher. I cannot keep relying on the vague hope that if I work hard enough, things will eventually work out. I am not built for that, and I carry the skeptic’s belief that the world is unlikely to arrange itself in my favor. So I am left with the question of what I should do next. looking at the work The first answer, apparently, was to do the slightly embarrassing 2026 version of asking for advice: I showed my YouTube channel and my apps to AI and asked what I should do. I am aware of how that sounds. Still, I wanted another view on what is confusing, what is not selling, and what I keep avoiding because I am too close to th...

7 months of requote: the numbers nobody asked for

apr 4, 2026 — may 3, 2026 impressions: 2,356 (last month: 1,089) product page views: 73 (last month: 34) downloads: 8 (last month: 8) in-app purchases: 0 (last month: 0) revenue: US$0 (last month: US$0) active devices: 1 (last month: 1) deletions: not enough data (last month: 1) may 4, 2026 — jun 3, 2026 impressions: 2,924 (last month: 2,356) product page views: 133 (last month: 73) downloads: 21 (last month: 8) in-app purchases: 0 (last month: 0) revenue: US$0 (last month: US$0) active devices: not enough data (last month: 1) deletions: 5 (last month: not enough data) where this leaves me Honestly, I am not sure what to do with Requote right now. I used to think my next job might be developer, but that feels less certain now. Maybe this is still part of the process. Maybe it is also possible that this is not the direction I am supposed to keep pushing. I have not decided anything yet, but the thought feels less random than it used to.