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Looks neat, and we might give you guys a try. I'm wondering about a couple of things that weren't super-obvious to me from the website and video alone: * does

Looks neat, and we might give you guys a try. I'm wondering about a couple of things that weren't super-obvious to me from the website and video alone: * does it work with a web-app? I saw curl examples, so probably it does, but what about those reinforcements? * speaking of which - apart from two simple popups on the video, is there a "library" of cool reinforcements to use? * not trying to underestimate the science behind this, and just playing devil's advocate here - did you test the actual difference between your algorithm and a semi-random/ultra-basic reinforcement trigger? (something along the lines of `if reinforcements_today < 3 && rand() > 0.7 then reinforce()`)

RAB1138 10y ago
hey @gingerlime, I'm Ramsay, Founder @ Dopamine Thanks for the feedback! 1.) We're releasing our web sdks next week: A PHP version and a Python version, each with a JS frontend wrapper. If you email me at ramsay@usedopamine.com I can poke you when it's shipped! 2.) We do! To get dev's off the ground we released a library of popups with different icon images like you saw. You can modify parameters like color, duration, copy. AND you can arbitrarily call any UX-updating function from the code that handles the Dopamine API's response. This lets you map a response we give you to any function in your app. We're sprinting to deploy a way to do this more elegantly on the integration dashboard also. 3.) Yes, we did. TL;DR: We outperform alternatives that devs are resorting to right now. @tdaltonc: care to chime in?
- gingerlime 10y ago
  Thanks for answering all my questions. I'll ping you guys and see about testing this out. We created a learning platform for anatomy[0], and gamification and motivation is one of the things we know we can and should improve. Sounds like dopamine can be a good fit. p.s. I really like the name! [0] https://www.kenhub.com https://www.kenhub.com
tdaltonc 10y ago
On your final point: Totally reasonable question. It's one of the first ones we asked ourselves (no one wants to work on a random-number-generator-as-a-service). We've seen simple reinforcement schedules increase average engagement by 3-8%. Our optimized schedules get about 10x that and up to a 60% increase.

RAB1138 10y ago

hey @gingerlime, I'm Ramsay, Founder @ Dopamine Thanks for the feedback! 1.) We're releasing our web sdks next week: A PHP version and a Python version, each with a JS frontend wrapper. If you email me at ramsay@usedopamine.com I can poke you when it's shipped! 2.) We do! To get dev's off the ground we released a library of popups with different icon images like you saw. You can modify parameters like color, duration, copy. AND you can arbitrarily call any UX-updating function from the code that handles the Dopamine API's response. This lets you map a response we give you to any function in your app. We're sprinting to deploy a way to do this more elegantly on the integration dashboard also. 3.) Yes, we did. TL;DR: We outperform alternatives that devs are resorting to right now. @tdaltonc: care to chime in?

gingerlime 10y ago
Thanks for answering all my questions. I'll ping you guys and see about testing this out. We created a learning platform for anatomy[0], and gamification and motivation is one of the things we know we can and should improve. Sounds like dopamine can be a good fit. p.s. I really like the name! [0] https://www.kenhub.com https://www.kenhub.com

tdaltonc 10y ago

On your final point: Totally reasonable question. It's one of the first ones we asked ourselves (no one wants to work on a random-number-generator-as-a-service). We've seen simple reinforcement schedules increase average engagement by 3-8%. Our optimized schedules get about 10x that and up to a 60% increase.