How I built a lightweight, no-account retrospective tool as part of my personal site — covering the idea, the technical architecture, and what got added in two MVP rounds.

We all have projects sitting on our mental to-do list for weeks. The problem isn't lack of motivation, but daily life. There's a clear parallel between software development and daily life struggles – and software teams solved these issues long ago.

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic philosophy, which finds beauty in imperfection and impermanence. Rather than fighting reality, wabi-sabi accepts it as natural. A cracked wooden chair with asymmetry embodies wabi-sabi—the idea that everything changes and ages.