Along similar lines, I had thought of a slightly strange idea for a web app where people could sign up to get a "virtual boss" to encourage them in whatever way

Along similar lines, I had thought of a slightly strange idea for a web app where people could sign up to get a "virtual boss" to encourage them in whatever way to be productive (whatever "productive" may mean). A lot of people do much better when there's somebody pushing them. These virtual bosses would also be people who've signed up to do so. Communication would be in the form of email, or an internal messaging system. The web app would make the experience more like a game, where bosses get points for having productive subordinates, and the subordinates get points for being productive themselves. This is just a very minimal concept at this point of course. I don't plan on building anything like this, but I thought I'd throw it out there. It could actually work.