She shot a plane over palm trees. He shot a plane over a sailboat. Different countries, different years, one frame.
Wrote a fasting app for herself, aligned it to hormonal cycles, and put it on the App Store. Most people write the Notion doc.
İstanbul, İzmir, Fethiye, Pamukkale, Kapadokya. Half of it in campsites. Met a wild boar. Kept going.
“Hi.” Then: took a very similar pic recently. There was no second line, because there did not need to be one.
Hers: a town by Tenerife South, where the planes come in low. His: one lucky shot at sunset, 3,000 km away.
Two people who point a camera at the same thing, unprompted. Everything after this page is detail.
A fasting app for women, aligned to hormonal cycles, adapting the plan as it goes. Built because she needed it — the only reason anything good gets built.
It is on the App Store. Not in a repo, not in a deck, not “launching soon”. On the App Store, with a demo version live.
Within an hour of the download: “How was the onboarding experience overall? What can be improved?” Nobody asks that unless they mean it.
İstanbul, İzmir, Fethiye, Pamukkale, Kapadokya. Half campsites, half Airbnbs, one mother wild boar with piglets near Fethiye.
The whole east she was told was too far, the Black Sea, and the İstanbul that only exists with a local holding the map.
Same country, better logistics. No campsites unless requested. The boar stays on the itinerary as an optional extra.
Most of the market clusters bottom-left. Attractiveness without personality gives you a douchebag; personality without attractiveness gives you a friend, and you already have enough of those.
The top-right quadrant is thin. DD is plotted there, by DD.
Methodology available on request. It is not rigorous, and the analyst is not independent.
18 April, 09:06 — “would you like to meet in istanbul some day, for like a long weekend”. Answer, 09:40: “Yes, when I will have the occasion.”
“Have to see you first.” Accepted in full, without amendment. It is week one of the plan on page 12.
Three days. Galata at eight before anyone is awake, Balat in the orange hour, the ferry deck when the light goes sideways. Photographer included, unpaid.
Ends in a like. Nobody involved remembers it by Thursday.
Four months of one. Genuinely good, structurally unambitious.
Where we currently are. Pending, per her own condition of 18 April.
Thirteen pages, hand-built, one copy, one reader. No template, no reuse.
Available on request. Chișinău has an airport and he has already looked it up.
Opened with a picture instead of a compliment. Answered within three hours with “Wow. Even better.”
Corrected the geography of her 2021 road trip within four hours of meeting her. High risk. Received well.
Asked for the link, installed the app, and set his last meal the same evening. Support of a demo version, unasked.
An unrealistic default first-meal time, and a too-short email confirmation timeout. Verdict: “Both situations are valid and can be improved.”
“I couldn't fast btw. Just received the notification.” The only milestone in this document that failed outright, and it is kept here on purpose.
Congratulated her on a car she had not yet bought. Six days later she bought it. Enthusiasm, delivered ahead of schedule.
İstanbul, a long weekend. Not declined. Made conditional on one video call, which remains the only outstanding dependency.
One failed honestly, one landed six days early. The failure is left in the record because a track record you can trust has to contain one.
Her condition, not his: have to see you first. Video, not voice, and no agenda. He will be the one who is nervous, which is the correct distribution.
Three days. The city she passed through in 2021 on the way to somewhere else, seen properly this time. Photographer included, same-week edit, no invoice.
He has never been to Moldova and has confident opinions about its wine regardless. This is indefensible and will be corrected in person.
One ships iOS, the other ships pipelines. Nobody has to explain what a rollback is, or why the evening went the way it did. No end date, which is rather the point.