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App revenue: $9.25 / $99 (due: July 29) Overall, I cannot really say things are going badly. YouTube is moving, the blog is moving, and books are moving too. App revenue is the hard part. There has been no change since the last check-in, and at this point, I do not think this goal is likely to be finished by the deadline. If I cannot reach this goal, it means the apps are not even making enough to cover the minimum cost of registering and maintaining them. That is something I need to think about seriously. I still want to keep building them, but I may need to make some new decisions. YouTube: 485.5 / 1,000 hours, 43 / 100 subscribers (due: December 5) I uploaded my 100th video. The timing was interesting because that video also got the highest number of impressions so far. The previous highest was around 8K, and this one reached around 9K. Books finished: 33 / 50 (due: June 30) Finishing the books I already started would help the number. Blog: 26 / 30 posts, 409 / 500 views (due: June ...

 - Design updates and performance improvements This is the first Requote update in about a month and a half. I moved during that time, and then there was the long, unglamorous part after moving: organizing things, settling in, and trying to get my work rhythm back. Requote had to wait longer than I wanted. I would not say I am fully satisfied with this version. I needed to release an update in May, and I also think updates need to be cut at regular intervals instead of being dragged forward until they feel perfect. So this is the point where I am shipping what is ready, even if it is not everything I wanted. When I first released Requote, I remember thinking it was good enough. The longer I work on it, the more I see the parts I want to fix. This version focuses mostly on the Mac app: design cleanup, bug fixes, and performance improvements. Next, I want to bring the iPhone design closer to the direction the Mac app is moving in. One thing I learned from this round is that I should ...

My 100th YouTube video went live early this morning. I don’t feel like I have finished anything. It feels more like I have finally reached the starting line. (MrBeast said to make 100 videos first, and somehow I took that literally.) The channel did not necessarily make me build things I would not have built otherwise. But I do think it made me update my apps more consistently. Since most of my videos are work-with-me recordings, filming also means sitting down and doing the work. In that sense, the channel has become both a record of the work and a system for doing it. I also wonder if the channel has been quietly contributing to how people discover my apps. Not in any measurable way yet, but as part of the broader context around my work. Still, it would not be honest to say that I am doing this only as a record. I do want the channel to grow. The strange thing is how quickly the meaning of numbers changes. In the beginning, even ten views felt exciting. Now I pay much less attention ...

More numbers moved, so another check-in. App revenue: $9.25 / $99 (due: July 29) Movement. Finally. The number is still very small, but after sitting at $4.24 for so long, even a tiny change feels noticeable. The person who bought it also sent an inquiry, which means our studio received its first support email. I know it is just one email, but honestly, it made me a little emotional. YouTube: 421.9 / 1,000 hours, 40 / 100 subscribers (due: December 5) The watch time is still moving after clearing the old target, which is nice. Subscriber growth has also been faster lately, which is a little surprising. People say things start to change after 100 videos, and I am at 98 now, so maybe that is part of it. Since I never had a real subscriber target before, I am setting one now: 100 subscribers by December 5. Books finished: 32 / 50 (due: June 30) One more finished. There are still too many books sitting around the halfway mark, but at least one of them escaped. Blog: 23 / 25 posts, 393 / 50...

One of the metrics hit its target, so I’m updating the tracker. App revenue: $4.24 / $99 (due: July 29) No movement here. The number has been sitting still for long enough that it is starting to feel decorative. YouTube watch time: 408.5 / 1,000 hours (due: December 5) The old 400-hour target is done, so I am replacing it with 1,000 hours. When I first set 400, it felt like a slightly unreasonable one-year goal. Now it is May, and apparently it was too shy. 1,000 still does not get me close to monetization, but it would be 25% of the watch time requirement, which feels like a better next checkpoint. YouTube subscribers: 37 / 1,000 (due: not really set) I still do not know how to set a meaningful subscriber goal. Subscribers feel too unpredictable. So for now, I am just putting the monetization requirement there and letting it look unreasonable in public. Books finished: 31 / 50 (due: June 30) This is still technically possible, but the number has not been moving much because I have too...

I’m trying a small research log for my work-with-me channel. I looked at a few study-with-me / work-with-me videos to see how they are packaged: atmosphere, sound, tools, format, and what makes them easier to click or keep on. This is not a review or a ranking, so I’m not naming the channels. I’m only keeping the parts that are useful for thinking about my own videos. video 1 - opening: explanation in the opening is useful, but this one felt too long. - sound: too many sound effects. Melodic, emotional music makes it hard for me to focus. Small stereo noises were especially distracting. - visual: the color was pretty and the brightness was moderate, but the frame had a lot to look at. - focus: the main visual pull was the scenery, so it felt more like something to watch than something to work beside. - format: timed sessions are easy for viewers to understand, but Pomodoro does not really fit how I work. - channel gap: compared to mine, it is stronger as a packaged video. It has more m...