Reviving a 7-Year-Old Idea — This Time with Flutter

Was There Already Something Like This?

After pulling out the idea again after 7 years, the first thing I did was search the App Store.

There was something. An app literally called OneThing, built around the same concept from The One Thing.

I installed it. And I was disappointed.

• Barely any features
• A paywall appeared the moment you opened the app
• Zero reviews

No reviews means nobody's using it. If you push payments before offering real value, people delete it immediately. I deleted it too.

I can build something better than this.

That thought reignited the project.

Why Flutter

This time, I wanted to cover iOS and Android simultaneously from the start. I also had experience rebuilding Smart Lotto and 3weeks in Flutter.

I was originally an iOS developer — Swift/UIKit was my comfort zone. But the advantage of building once in Flutter and shipping to both platforms was too clear to ignore.

The structure of First Domino wasn't complex: top-down goal input, daily check-in, reminder notifications. Flutter was more than capable of handling this, and Dart's straightforward syntax was actually great for fast development.

June 23, 2026 — It Begins

June 23, 2026, 4:08 PM. I registered the bundle and app in App Store Connect, and development officially started.

What had been sitting as notes for 7 years finally had a real project bundle.

This time, I was going to finish it.

Next up: the design direction behind First Domino — and how black and gold became its identity.