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Show HN: Dependapal – Use Implicit Peer Pressure to Make Progress on Your Goals
- sergiotapia 12y agoMake this a facebook app and publicly embarrass the user if he misses a goal on his timeline and this will go viral.
- cjrd 12y agoHa, I might give this a shot :-)
- t9876 12y agoMore pressure is not necessarily better. Peoples brains work differently. I would never use the app if it posted on facebook, whereas finding people with the same problem who can't embarrass me in front of my friends (because they don't know them) is more useful. Not saying the facebook version wouldn't be useful for some people, but I bet there are also lots of people who wouldnt' touch it with a barge pole. You might want to consider two separate ones.
- sleep-less 12y agoHeard this idea a few times, e.g. a "Social time bomb". Very hard to actually make work, as it depends on friends to check achievements and punish the originator.
- wslh 12y agoI work the other way, if I have an important project I keep it "stealth" to move forward until it is ready (in my opinion).
- andy10 12y agoHow is this different from http://www.stickk.com/ http://www.stickk.com/?
- lincolnq 12y agoThere's a fairly healthy ecosystem of commitment contract sites. I associate Stickk with one particular format which is contracts with money on the line by a specific date. It looks like DependaPal is more along the lines of checking in with a friend to keep you in line. My favorite of these is Beeminder which doesn't have the social features, but it does a great job of graphing your progress and putting money on the line as you go off track in the short term.
- Spearchucker 12y agoWhatever happened to doing and completing something because its important to you? This strikes me as seeking approval/validation from others, which I'm not sure would make me feel so good about myself if I indulged in...
- sleep-less 12y agoWillpower is the greatest force in our world and 99.999999% of us have a limited quantity of it. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco addiction; overeating and lack of exercise; not working or studying hard enough. Are you really trying to say anybody can overcome those by "doing and completing something because its important to you"?
- Spearchucker 12y agoNote that I'm no scientist so I only have my personal belief to go by. Yes. If its important enough, I believe anyone can.
- JacobJans 12y agoActually, if something is important enough to someone, they are always motivated to do it. Period. No tricks needed. Of course, it's not often in life that one finds things that are that important. Some people never find such things. And that is sad, and sadly common.
- Houshalter 12y agoClearly you have never had to deal with procrastination.
- lincolnq 12y agoCheck out "The Motivation Hacker" by Nick Winter (http://www.amazon.com/The-Motivation-Hacker-Nick-Winter-ebook/dp/B00C8N4FNK http://www.amazon.com/The-Motivation-Hacker-Nick-Winter-eboo... - $3 ebook) for some reasons why commitment contracts might help - not everyone is that strongly self-motivated, and even strongly self-motivated people can benefit from them.
- saurabhnanda 12y agoPlease look up Dependal. It's a medicine to control an upset stomach / loose motions. You might want to re-think your project name.
- cjrd 12y agoExcellent! How about: DependaPal - stop s---ing on your goals?
- personjerry 12y agoI'm not sure this is a good idea. Have you ever told a bunch of friends you were going to do something? It actually makes you want to do it less and less, because then if you screw it up, you think everyone will know.
- cjrd 12y agoGood point, I don't like telling _a bunch_ of friends that I'm trying to do something. I built this site because I work in a lot of two-person collaborations, and I wanted consistent reminders to share progress with the other person.
- gingerrr 12y agoStrongly reminded of South Park's 'accountabilibuddy'. Did not work so well.