Behind WishLeaf.

WishLeaf began not long after I finished graduate school, while I was thinking about what kind of work I wanted to pursue next.

After completing an internship, I reopened an old graduation project. What started as a small idea for helping people when a task felt difficult gradually evolved as I kept building it.

Along the way, I became interested in a simple question: why do so many planning tools assume we already know what pace, difficulty, and path will work for us?

In reality, we often learn that only by trying. A plan can look reasonable on paper and still be too much in real life. Sometimes the better approach is to begin with a manageable step, see what actually happens, and let that experience shape what comes next.

That idea became the heart of WishLeaf. Rather than treating a plan as something fixed that users must follow, WishLeaf is designed around a cycle of action, reflection, and adjustment. It pays attention to what users actually manage to do, helping future steps better match their real pace over time.

The four-leaf clover came from a much earlier memory.

When I was 21, during another uncertain period in my life, I found a four-leaf clover in a quiet garden and preserved it in my notebook. Years later, it became part of WishLeaf’s identity — a small symbol of hope, luck, and continuing forward even when the whole path is not yet clear.

WishLeaf itself grew in much the same way: one small step, then another, with each step changing what I understood about the product — and about the kind of work I wanted to do.

I hope WishLeaf can share a little of that quiet luck and happiness with everyone who uses it.