Standby, submit, diversify
Portfolio triage day: the eye research stops at an honest 86% because throwing stones in the air isn't a method, Severo finally enters Google's seven-day review gate, and Divo, the only app that ever made money, gets revived on principle: nothing you abandon compounds.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 3:54 (stop: sin ideas no se tira piedras al aire)
- ↳ video diary @ 7:05 (Severo en revisión de Google)
- ↳ Entry 186-1: The whispered exam (la limpieza que precede este alto)
The research gets its full stop, declared out loud: “no más, stop, me estoy quedando sin ideas” ▸ 3:54. The clean number after the great disinfection is 86%, real, and stuck, and he names why continuing would be waste: “comenzar a tirar piedras al aire no funciona” ▸ 4:07. The replacement plan is study: a long list of papers, skimmed first, read deep only if they earn it, with Gemini conversations standing in for forty-page slogs ▸ 10:58, until the mental simulation that produced the lazy-policy dead end gets rebuilt ▸ 4:32. The evidence keeps the faith honest in both directions: random movements score 50, learned movements 86, so something in loss-as-reward works, and something doesn’t ▸ 5:08.
Meanwhile Severo crosses its biggest gate yet: bugs fixed, the Play Console’s last absurdities appeased, why does a tutor app request alarm permissions, fine, removed ▸ 6:30, and the app is submitted to Google’s review, reportedly seven days from the Play Store ▸ 7:05. His lament is a builder’s benchmark: SanFonson, a web MVP, reached users in two weeks; the mobile gauntlet has made Severo the project slowest to ever touch a real person, “y eso es lo preocupante” ▸ 7:26.
la única app que dio plata estaba abandonada; esa es la contradicción que se corrige hoy →
Third decision: Divo comes back. Not out of love, he says plainly it’s among the projects he least enjoyed ▸ 10:04, but out of the principle the year taught them: “de nada sirve trabajarle algo y dejarlo ahí tirado”, a subscription product that doesn’t improve just sheds its users ▸ 10:16. It is the only application that has ever produced revenue, which makes it the logical second basket beside Reisi, iterated and, for the first time, advertised ▸ 9:14. Research paused, tutor at the gate, earner revived: a portfolio finally managed like one…