so i’ve relaxed for these past few days. the apps are nicely complete for now. tomorrow the final android apps go up. time to move into marketing mindset.

for a little entertainment tonight i built the Add Months app. chatgpt sums it up like this:

Add Months is a private, local-first app that helps you identify the single change most likely to extend your lifespan. After entering basic demographic, health, and lifestyle information, it uses conservative hazard-based modeling to estimate the impact of different behaviors and highlights your current “Dominant Challenge” — the factor offering the largest potential gain if improved. It stores all data encrypted on your device, requires no account, has no ads or subscriptions, and exists purely as a serious clarity tool to help you understand where your biggest life-extending opportunity lies right now.

nice little diversion during some planned downtime. might have an in with Lunetta.

today felt like a total waste. spent all day trying to get a demo running but the app and android beacons kept getting in the way.

i wasn’t able to get back to Bodega but it’s gotta be right before i show them anyhow. still made a good impact on them.

Works was approved on ios but still waiting on the other two. still have no new google signing key sop i can’t even put the final google apps up yet, but i don’t have the testers anyhow so it doesn’t matter.

tried to use CHOWN in wordle just now.

so i filed my taxes yesterday and apparently i will be getting a nice little refund that will give me another month of runway. not sure how i will make rent next week, i will figure something out though.

i keep getting fleeting thoughts of “why not just seek a little funding” to get me through this pre-revenue time. but i can’t come to grips with breaking off a piece at this time. i will have the return by the time the money would come together anyhow. i have someone tonight i can pre-ask for a little bridge funding if necessary.

so i got a half a “no” response from a coffee shop a couple blocks away. employees loved the idea. owner is not interested in new tech. i have a feeling he doesn’t understand exactly how Payfrit can affect his business and that’s ok. it’s going to take results from a couple local places before the tidal wave of signups hit.

debugging is monotonous af. just trying to get the two user apps solid for listing on testflight and google play.

so the original plan to be launched by 2/24 is maybe becoming a little threatened. still no movement from google play, and yesterday i had to-redo the whole beacon scanning routines because of a weird apple thing i found. it’s no wonder nobody has done this before.

but now the scanning is much tighter. better. a more professional product. second gen stuff. goal is to have the two user apps polished off for v1 release builds today. then tomorrow i have to check back with two smaller owners, i connected with staff on Friday. get a first restaurant running, that’s the target. hit hpc tomorrow also.

looks like as of December last year (2025) I had been in Los Angeles 14 years. i think i’m allowed to call myself a local now?

anyhow payfrit has been brewing as an idea since 02/15 as an idea (stick) and Payfrit RMS first kicking around Jan 1 2016. payfrit.com registered originally on Aug 5, 2015.

i originally moved out here to frr my mind and come up with something new. did i?

last real days where i can make wholesale changes to our stack, apps, and multiple interfaces without having to worry about customers being live. it’s going very well. should have everything in place by the end of today, and be knees deep in app debugging.

feels good though. hard launch date set for no later than 2/24/26. goal is to have one each from the major categories ready to drop on that day:

• restaurant — live via HPC (Crimson?)
• bar — live HPC (big dean’s?)
• food court — live or demo (sort of covered by gaming tables in HPC) there’s on on main street in Santa Monica?
• casino — live HPC
• hotel — live or demo (likely referral from HPC)
• motel — live with SP-SM: Service Point Sharing & Monetization om on some functional level
• hospital — optional / pilot (potential referral, if not i can get this easy)
• small stadium venue – high school or that level (same as hospital, i can get)

i can make that happen, having HPC plus their referrals will be optimal.

we finally have a proper god mode in place, along with custom built monitoring of our api endpoints. full server stack is live and monitored. git properly organized and pushing properly on its own. finaly doing a major fix to quell all the different normalization/casing errors that were constantly fucking things up. probably 60% of our errors, at least, eliminated by a single codebase change. and finally able to make such a change because our server environment is stable.

payfrit is closer than it’s ever been.

time to fully test all six native apps today. i have specific test tracks already generated, time to do monkey work after bread & roses this morning. also building Payfrit’s god mode to make things easier to monitor and run.

yesterday we deployed the new custom performance monitor that keeps track of APIs and catches potential bottlenecks before they happen.

tying up loose ends. the flutter apps feel archaic at this point.

Payfrit is coming.

apparently when there is financial incentive to reduce homelessness, suddenly it happens.

https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/la-olympic-venues-unhoused-people-clear-encampments-plan