Journal: Week 82

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:47:33 +0800

✨ Highlights of the Week

since last week i’ve been putting a lot effort into “promoting” my product and im so happy currently i have 2 real users who are actively using my product, ofc they are my friends, but actually i contacted 20+ of my frens. 2 stayed. at this point im questioning my direction but i dont see the point in giving up as im literally using this product myself, it solved my own problem!

it made me come to a realisation that sometimes a product definition of good or bad aint defined by you; but by the market needs. till now, slowly seeing the needs, might be 1 out of 20 who actually have this problem, so in the world of people who take gym seriously, lets say 1,000,000, could be 10,000 needing it, and…. its not a small number either!

so it got me thinking about the direction of how i can add on more bonus features such that alongside recording sets and reps, you get to interact with people in the app as a public space too! and i named it Lobby!

wonderful week ngl, everyday im just using the product i build for my own issue, just find it so lucky to be in this era…

im just so lucky

more to go, hopefully get 100 DAU this EOY!!!!!

📋 Recap

📚 NUS

Closed Sprint 6 and opened Sprint 7, moving the term-wide tables out of the sprint file after roughly two hundred of its lines turned out never to have been sprint state
Scored 10/10 on the TCX2102 quiz, read off the per-item marks since the total itself is withheld
Got P01 back at 7.5/8, and named the pattern behind the missing half mark: three marks lost this term, every one a typo rather than a gap in what I knew
Shipped both individual-project increments two days before the deadline, swapping plain CSS for Tailwind across all six screens, then built a drill out of my own before-and-after diff
Rescued the T01 submission with seven hours left, after two of its answers turned out to have no artefact in the repo at all

🔧 Projects

🏋️ Gym Buddy

Shipped form check: record a set from the phone, watch the take back, and keep it
Added a trim window, so a raw take gets cut down to the working set and published as an exercise’s demo video
Grouped takes into story rings on the exercise sheet and a gallery on the Me hub, each one marked shared or private
Opened form check as a grantable beta rather than an owner-only trial
Rebuilt cardio logging around segments, so incline and resistance can change part-way through a single effort
Let a coach send a plan straight to a student, unsend it while it waits, and see when it was opened
Gave the coach a session review in three sections, and a standing cue that stays attached to a movement
Let a coach add a student by name, including one who has never installed the app
Opened a Lobby card onto every working set under it, not just the day’s headline movement
Added one-tap comments, and let Gym Buddy answer a training day in the thread
Parked the native iOS shell

💪 Fitness

Learned to watch the joint that compensates rather than the one that is injured, since the old damage sits in one place while the load quietly shifts somewhere else
Ran an entire lower body off one leg press at three foot positions, because in an unfamiliar gym cutting the wait for a second machine matters more than picking better movements