For fifteen years I have tracked my life in pieces: spreadsheets, finance tools, health trackers, one for each part of it. And for fifteen years I have taken three days a year alone to see it all at once, reset, and make sure I am still going in a direction I chose.
Along the way the pieces multiplied. Consulting, then startups, then an MBA with a year of 360 surveys and leadership reflections, each one a snapshot I read once and forgot. More recently, a journal.
In 2025 I visited a close friend in Spain and found out I was not the only one. His family holds a yearly offsite, and their values hang on the wall as a piece of art. Seeing my own habit in someone else’s home made me ask why I only do this properly three days a year, and fill the rest with spreadsheets.
My brother has another view.
“You run your life like a business. Not everything should be.”
He has a point, and it shaped how Huppy talks: it shows you the picture and asks. It never tells you what to do.
In the summer of 2026 I went back to the gym after a long time away, and ran my training through a chat: ask for the session, lift, paste back the numbers, get the next targets. It worked so well that a few weeks later I wrote down the bigger idea.
Live the Wheel of Life every day, and run a life the way a good company runs itself: review every month, plan every quarter, reset every year. Only my mood is asked every day; everything else moves at its own pace. Eight areas on one wheel, so a lopsided week shows before I read a number. Commitments, one sentence each, so the reviews lead somewhere.
The hard part was never the data. We live inside days that pull at us, toward trends and whatever the environment around us rewards, and every app and feed answers for one slice of life. The watch knows the sleep, the bank knows the money, nobody knows it was the same week. Huppy is the step out of the day, made small enough to take every evening, with the whole picture in front of you.
It was called iBalanced first, then Lyfi for two days. Then Huppy: happy, with a lift in it. The period at the end is the dot the whole app is drawn with. On first launch it opens into the eight areas, which introduce themselves and come back.
I built it for me, and I am asking friends to try it. If it keeps me balanced, it might do the same for you.