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Well designed site! I used something similar: 750words.com for a year within few months the streak turned to torture. There was no noticeable improvement in

by sireat 8y ago

Well designed site! I used something similar: 750words.com for a year within few months the streak turned to torture. There was no noticeable improvement in my adult writing skills yet I felt obliged to keep the chain going. The happiest day of that year was when I mixed up time zones and missed one day. Have not written anything seriously since.

padthai 8y ago
That is like one Lord of The Rings or six 1984 every two years. A month and change for Animal Farm. Two months for "man bash". It sounds like a full time job.
- sireat 8y ago
  It really did not take that long each day maybe 30minutes max. The problem stemmed from dearth of possible topics. Thus my writing degenerated into some sort of free association chains reminiscent of most blogs. Get those 750 words done and you can get on with your day! Maybe an Edgar Wallace inspired topic generator would have been handy.
baby 8y ago
I have a similar website for french people: www.3pages.fr It seems like some people do get into dark places when they break their chains. I've considered several times having a limit that would prevent you from writing 30 days in a row or something.
- night815 8y ago
  Ideas: Allow users to specify which days of the week are writing days and only track that streak. For every certain period of time (14 days?) completed, the user gets a vacation / skip day. This way the user can keep the streak going without having to write every day and can take days off when needed without losing their streak.
mariushop 8y ago
I strongly agree. Made my "dream text editor", launched with a focus on gamification tools designed around making people write more. Although people liked it (3rd product of the day on Product Hunt, a bunch of sign-ups), in time it became evident that gamification tools create more problems than they solve. We removed/sent to background most of them since, besides a writing calendar and general statistics. I'm more happy to use it now and have a small - about 2% of registered users - awesome community.

by sireat 8y ago

padthai 8y ago

That is like one Lord of The Rings or six 1984 every two years. A month and change for Animal Farm. Two months for "man bash". It sounds like a full time job.

sireat 8y ago
It really did not take that long each day maybe 30minutes max. The problem stemmed from dearth of possible topics. Thus my writing degenerated into some sort of free association chains reminiscent of most blogs. Get those 750 words done and you can get on with your day! Maybe an Edgar Wallace inspired topic generator would have been handy.

baby 8y ago

I have a similar website for french people: www.3pages.fr It seems like some people do get into dark places when they break their chains. I've considered several times having a limit that would prevent you from writing 30 days in a row or something.

night815 8y ago
Ideas: Allow users to specify which days of the week are writing days and only track that streak. For every certain period of time (14 days?) completed, the user gets a vacation / skip day. This way the user can keep the streak going without having to write every day and can take days off when needed without losing their streak.

mariushop 8y ago

I strongly agree. Made my "dream text editor", launched with a focus on gamification tools designed around making people write more. Although people liked it (3rd product of the day on Product Hunt, a bunch of sign-ups), in time it became evident that gamification tools create more problems than they solve. We removed/sent to background most of them since, besides a writing calendar and general statistics. I'm more happy to use it now and have a small - about 2% of registered users - awesome community.