# Palace Ring — MVP

## Goal

Validate that the sign-up and usage experience works end-to-end with two trusted non-technical masters: Junwon's mom and dad. Not a public launch. A real test with real people who are not developers.

Success means: they sign up, land in their palace, interact with their butler, and find it useful — without Junwon explaining anything.

## What the MVP Is Not

- Not all 25 apps. A curated subset only.
- Not full per-palace infrastructure provisioning. Shared ring, separate data.
- Not public. Invite only — two accounts to start.
- Not a business product. A working experience.

## Sign-Up Flow

1. Mom or dad goes to palacering.com
2. They see a simple welcome screen — what Palace Ring is, in plain language
3. They enter their name, email, and a password
4. Their palace is created. They are taken to their home screen.
5. Their butler greets them by name and briefly explains what they can do.

No technical language anywhere in this flow. No configuration. No choices to make.

## The Palace Home Screen

After sign-in, the master sees their palace home: a simple grid of rooms they can enter, and the butler bar at the bottom always visible.

The MVP home screen has four rooms:

- **Diary** — their personal daily journal
- **Health** — food log, supplements, how they're feeling
- **Family** — connect with Junwon and other family members
- **Home** — home tips, recipes, household guidance

That is all. Not more. The butler can help with anything in any of these rooms.

## The Butler

The butler is the center of the experience. It is present on every page — a bar at the bottom the master can tap to speak or type.

The butler knows the master's name, their palace, and what is in each room. The master does not need to know how anything works. They say what they want; the butler does it.

**Examples of what the butler handles in MVP:**

- "Write in my diary that I had a good day today"
- "I had rice and kimchi for lunch"
- "What did I eat this week?"
- "Send a message to Junwon"
- "How do I get a stain out of a white shirt?"

The butler responds in the master's language. For mom and dad, Korean is the default. The butler should speak Korean if the master speaks Korean.

## The Four MVP Apps

### Diary

The master's daily journal. The butler writes entries when the master tells it what happened. The master can also read past entries — today, yesterday, any date.

The master never types into a form. They tell the butler. The butler writes.

### Health

A log of what the master eats, what supplements they take, and how they feel. The butler records entries. The master can ask the butler to summarize what they ate this week, or whether they took their vitamins.

No calorie counting, no complex nutrition tracking. Just a record, in plain language, that the butler keeps.

### Family

A simple shared space for the family. The master can send a message to Junwon. Junwon can send a message to them. Short, direct, like a family group chat — but inside the palace.

MVP: one family group. Junwon, mom, dad.

### Home

A reference room. The butler answers home-related questions: cleaning, cooking, household tasks. Not a database the master manages — just a room where they can ask the butler anything about running a home.

## Any Device

Mom and dad access their palace from their phone, their tablet, their computer. They log in at palacering.com. Their palace is there. No syncing, no setup on each device.

The mobile experience is the primary target. Mom and dad will mostly use their phones.

## Language

The interface supports Korean from the start. Korean masters see Korean. The butler responds in the language the master uses.

## What We Learn From This Test

- Does the sign-up work without help?
- Does the butler feel natural and useful to a non-technical person?
- Which apps get used, which get ignored?
- What do they ask the butler that the butler can't do yet?
- Does the any-device access work as expected?
- What breaks?

Junwon observes. Mom and dad use it. The gaps become the next phase.