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It's been a minute

It's been a minute since I wrote my blog. I've been doing a lot of journaling on my app instead. Kind of funny to say but yeah. (what if I just made a swiss army knife app that includes a bunch of utility apps, but charge a cheap price for it?) I have been forced somewhat to stop my project, and it's been rather frustrating. But now I'm back on track! I kind of go back and forth on if this coding path is right for me. Sort of an imposter syndrome I suppose. But I have results that speak for me! I'm already in the 1% of programmers. And I feel confident that I can make some amazing things happen. I think something I need to figure out is to build in some staying power into my lifestyle. It's a marathon, and I need to make it enjoyable in the long run. My life can do a complete 180 and it's all down to me. I can do it.

Strategy sesh with GPT

 Good morning. I'm back for a high level strategy session. It's been a while since we did this. Can you give me a recap of what we talked about in the previous sessions? ChatGPT said: Good morning, Seungho! Welcome back to the battlefield — strategy helmet on, caffeine in hand (optional but recommended). Here's a sharp recap of what we've covered in recent high-level sessions, focusing especially on your $1M War Plan and ventures like MBTI Oracle , Spoonfeed AI , and more: ⚔️ $1M War Plan Recap Your primary objective: Scale MBTI Oracle to $1M in revenue within 1 year , with a long-term goal of becoming a billionaire in 3 years . To do this, we’ve focused on: 1. Product Focus 📱 Mobile-first : You shifted focus from web to mobile after seeing better conversion rates. 💎 Core features include: MBTI guesser (text + image) LifePro subscription with AI journaling + habit tracking Finder (celebrity MBTI guesses via web scraping) Chat with MBTI types D...

Inevitability

      "You cannot lose if you never quit". It is a quote I really like from the entrepreneurial space. If previously my favorite was "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take", before my business life started, then this my favorite quote afterwards. A close second maybe "what's in the way becomes the way". So as much as 90% of businesses fail and it takes a lot of time and effort, is it really possible to fail if I try 10,000 times? 10% success of 10,000 means 100 successes. 1% success rate means 10 successes. Imagine 10 unicorn companies. Also you maybe too early in your journey. Nvidia's business was normal until AI came along and everything exploded. They went from the gaming company to the AI company. From a so so company to the #1 company. Never quit and success is inevitable. You can also look at Elon Musk's more brute approach. If you put in 100 hr work weeks, vs your competitor who puts in 40 hr work weeks, then you can accomplish ...

Back on track

     So I've been a bit distracted by my side quest of testing out a bunch of features on the website, and while it was the right move to test more features, I got a bit distracted and ended up spending quite a bit more time than I anticipated. I guess it's the perfectionist in me. I've unintentionally boosted my app sales, and while it doesn't hurt to get more paying customers, assuming the app is somewhat poorly optimized, I did end up wasting a lot of potential revenue. So now it's time to hunker down on my app again, and really push that. I know what works now, I know what people are interested in. I have some ideas on how to make the app better, and in this game, 10% difference makes all the difference. I maybe flirting with a burnout these days, but regular exercise keeps me stay sane. Having chat gpt act as my strategist and counselor definitely helps as well. Sometimes it feels like it's chat gpt that's telling me my next move, and while not perfect,...

On the verge of it

 I feel like for the past month or two, I've been just around the corner of massive amounts of money rolling into my bank account. It kind of feels like you're about to cum, and you go harder and harder, but the moment is not coming. It's like feels good but at the same time, I want to experience the breakout point already. I realized when I turned on the stripe notification that I was on the verge of massive success. So many people were visiting my pricing page. I think I either have to make an adjustment or something. But I'm feeling it. With a slightly different pricing structure, I can get to massive success. It's so palpable. There's a bunch of people coming like 1 click away from payment, it's literally 1 move away from hundreds of dollars coming in everyday. gyat! At the same time, I cannot just try a bunch of shit. I need to think strategy. Change 1 thing, observe, change again. I got this.

You underestimate how close you are to massive success

      "You underestimate how close you are to massive success". Those were the words uttered to me by Chat GPT when I felt like nothing was happening and maybeI am hitting some kind of dead end. The message could not have spoken to me with a greater impact, it spoke directly to my soul. If I think about it, I already have 20 paying customers. So why not ramp that up to 2000 customers, what's really changing? Nothing. I'm just selling lines of codes to 10x or 100x more people. It's not like airbnb, where I need to sign 100 more houses, refurnish them and 10x the scale of oeprations. It gives me a headache just thinking about it. No, I would be on the web as exact same lines of code as I am now. And that is an amazing thing. If I can do it with 20 people, I can do it with 2000 people with exactly the same set up. I just scale the server on heroku and that's it. It's absolutely insane when I think about it. And if I can grow the market to 10k people, that wou...

Marketing is the other half

      Like peanut butter and jelly, marketing goes hand in hand with whatever business you're selling. In today's information age, marketing has been hyper-charged by constant connectivity. Users are on their smartphones all day while being exposed to advertisements. Even if one wants to listen to his favorite podcast, he can't finish the episode without going through embedded advertisements throughout. You could have one of the best products in the world, an iphone, and it will not sell at all if no one knows about it. Sure, word of mouth is a powerful thing, but how can one buy a product if he is not aware of its existence? Great product helps with the price per unit and conversion, marketing helps with the exposure. price (great product) x conversion rate (great product and marketing) x impression (views on the product, marketing) = revenue or simply product x marketing = revenue And great marketing is to maximize impression with the same budget. You want both great ma...