Summary for those not familiar with the craziness that is Beeminder: It's a combination of quantified-self tool and a commitment device app (like StickK and Gym

Summary for those not familiar with the craziness that is Beeminder: It's a combination of quantified-self tool and a commitment device app (like StickK and GymPact and Aherk) where you put up money, to be paid if you don't do what you said you were going to do. In this case you're pledging to push commits or close issues a certain number of times per week. The money aspect sounds super perverse, but we think of it as paying a fee for a service (the graphs, reminders, etc) that happens to be waived if you never need Beeminder's kick in the pants.