There are things that end when they disappear, even if you haven't touched them. | Good Morning Girlfriend #126

Introduction

"Good Morning Girlfriend" is an X account where an AI-illustrated girlfriend says goodbye to you every morning at 7:30. I have been writing about the process of developing it personally on note, and this is the 126th entry.

After reading Shiro-no-aru-san's article, I found myself deep in thought.

Short-term motivation is fuel that only functions while numbers like likes and PVs are moving. Long-term motivation is a state where you can concretely imagine yourself several years from now. I thought both made sense. But when I applied them to myself, I felt an anxiety that couldn't be classified as either.

A product that hasn't been updated

I will write honestly.

Although I have written 126 development diaries for Good Morning Girlfriend, I have hardly updated the actual Oha-Kano account on X recently. The 7:30 AM post runs every morning. GitHub Actions are running. Lines and images are being generated. But that is not where I am putting my effort.

What I find fun are the tools surrounding note.

The Reply Notebook is used by 190 people. Oha-Yomi has become a tool to check articles by favorite creators. "Observation Continues." was created to track the like rate of articles. "Letters from 7 People." has become a mechanism for characters to deliver letters to readers.

Even though the sign says "Good Morning Girlfriend Development Diary," the contents are being replaced with things that make managing note more fun.

The day I imagined "what if it stopped"

In February 2026, I saw the news that the X API had switched to a pay-as-you-go model.

I was curious, so I looked it up. Oha-Kano posts once a day. Even if it switched to a pay-as-you-go model, it would be about $0.30 per month. There is almost no concern about costs. The API is not being completely abolished; in fact, the fact that they switched to a billing model means that X intends to keep it as a revenue source.

The risk of sudden death is low. In terms of numbers, I can rest easy.

But while I was looking into it, I realized something. What I was afraid of wasn't the money.

The possibility that it could stop suddenly one day, regardless of my own will.

API specification changes, revisions to terms of service, a total ban on bot operations. None of these are things I can control. And if it were to stop—I counted what would disappear.

The habit of someone standing at the door at 7:30 every morning. The identity of being "the person who makes Good Morning Girlfriend." The places where 8 people are scattered in the Reply Notebook and dashboard. The single axis that connected 126 articles. The reason readers come to peek and ask, "Whose day is it today?"

Everything was resting on the single vessel called Good Morning Girlfriend.

It was then that I first understood what I had been entrusting to this vessel.

The fuel and the vessel were different things.

Shiro Noaru-san's "two types of motivation" are both about fuel.

Short-term fuel is the excitement of the moment when your likes increase. Long-term fuel is the image of your future self. Both are "power sources for continuing to run," not the place where you run itself.

What I was afraid of wasn't running out of fuel. It was the vessel disappearing.

Because there is a vessel called Good Morning Girlfriend, the things I put inside—articles, tools, relationships with readers—maintain their shape. A vessel is the "name and structure" that binds your activities together. The contents of the vessel have changed rapidly over these four months. But the vessel itself had become my identity. "The person who makes Good Morning Girlfriend" had become how I introduced myself.

Something I haven't touched is supporting me. It's ironic, really.

I was expanding the place where they belong.

I felt guilty about not having renovated it. It's a development diary, yet I'm not developing anything. I wondered if the sign was misleading.

But when I looked back, I realized. I haven't touched the entrance on X. But the place where the girlfriends belong had expanded before I knew it.

There are chibi characters in the Reply Notebook. They are also in "The Observation Continues." In "Letters from 7 People," I am delivering letters to each individual reader. With the comment engine, I am asking questions to readers at the end of articles. The entrance every morning wasn't the only place where the girlfriends belonged.

Looking back, there were places where they belonged other than the entrance.

The anxiety that the vessel might break hasn't disappeared. As long as I can't control it with my own will, there's no way to make it disappear.

But as long as the place where the girlfriends belong is expanding outside of X, the option to "stop" does not exist for me. I will run while carrying the anxiety.

It's not the short-term motivation (numbers) or the long-term motivation (future image) that Shiro Noaru-san talks about. I continue because the place where I, the characters, and the readers belong is there—Place-based motivation. Perhaps this was the third power source, neither fuel nor a future image.

Conclusion

I have designed the fuel. I haven't designed the vessel yet.

But you might also have a "vessel." Something you haven't touched, but would be in trouble if it disappeared. Something that constitutes you, even though you haven't renovated it.

Have you realized what that is?

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