The dropdown that stopped at 2025

A few months ago, someone who pays for MyDays X — a Pro user, someone who trusts this app enough to give me money for it — wrote to say she couldn't log her contraception. Not a bug, not a crash. A year dropdown that simply stopped at 2025. We were already in 2026.

That message stuck with me more than any App Store complaint about ads ever has. This wasn't someone annoyed by a banner. This was someone who pays, asking for something she absolutely deserved, and I wasn't giving it to her. Small on paper. Not small to her.

It pulled a much bigger thread. Because underneath that one dropdown was an app built on a framework that had simply aged out — not broken exactly, just no longer of this time. Once I started pulling, I couldn't stop. So I didn't patch the dropdown. I rebuilt the whole thing.

Along the way I kept relearning something I already half-knew: so much of this isn't really about calendars and dates. It's mindset. Inner calm. The more stress a woman carries, the more cortisol, and her whole body starts to spin — some days sky-high, some days low. Men carry a version of this too, just usually quieter. In kids you see it most plainly, the swing from pure joy to real sadness, fast. And almost anything that gives a woman a sense of safety and being looked after helps — meditation, martial arts, whatever settles the nervous system. That's not a feature I can code. But I can build an app that doesn't add to the noise, and sometimes that's enough to help.

What I actually want MyDays X to be: a companion. A friend that hands you a tool — something that helps you get through the harder phases, understand yourself a little better, plan ahead instead of getting surprised. Not just tracking what already happened. Something useful enough to help shape what's next.

If you write to me, I'll answer — really answer, not a template. What I say back depends entirely on what you tell me. That's kind of the whole point.

Thank you for being here while I rebuild this. — Christian