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Startup Teardown: Less Spockiness, More Alien Fistfights(medium.com)
3 points by dreeves 9y ago|1 comments
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by dreeves 9y ago
As a cofounder of Beeminder, this makes tons of sense to me! Plenty of room for a less nerd-focused take on this (we're heaving on the Quantified Self side) and other forms of motivation hacking besides commitment contracts based on gr
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by dreeves 9y ago
Super exciting to see your thinking and progress on this! Let me know when you're ready to be added to http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors And here are our thoughts on charities: http://blog.beeminder.com&
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by dreeves 10y ago
Super valuable feedback; thank you! I realize your feedback is about the impression it gives, totally separate from how greedy we actually are, but we're still tiny ($22k/mo revenue with 3.5 FTEs). And like enoch_r and mgiannopoul
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by dreeves 10y ago
Thanks! [glow!] And really excellent point about queue limiting and kanban! Now I'm wondering if there's a hack or plugin or just a convention to make Trello work that way... Or maybe the answer is Beeminder's Trello integrat
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by dreeves 10y ago
Oh man, we really need to bump this to the top of our FAQ :) https://www.beeminder.com/faq#qcoi But maybe the best way to refute that is that we've been around 5.5 years and our long-term churn (not counting short-term
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by dreeves 10y ago
Wow, thank you so much for the kind words! (I'm a Beeminder cofounder.) I'm actually also not sure what you mean about embedded domain-ideas, or I hadn't heard it put that way. Do you mean the domain idea being aligning daily
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by dreeves 10y ago
In case you meant this as a Beeminder question (it's a good one!) the answer is, yes, you can end a goal any time with one-week notice, or schedule it to end at a pre-specified date.
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by dreeves 10y ago
I should generalize more: A goal to hit a certain weight is a bad goal because your weight will typically bounce back. But a goal to reach a certain weight and then stay below it forever is more System than Goal. You want to always be on tr
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by dreeves 10y ago
Here's what we (Beeminder) had to say about Systems vs Goals a year ago, also prompted by Scott Adams's book: http://blog.beeminder.com/systems/ I bet people who like this article would also like http:/
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by dreeves 10y ago
Thank you so much for that plug! The author of the article, alexvermeer, is also a longtime Beeminder fan! See https://alexvermeer.com/beeminder/
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by dreeves 10y ago
Sivers later clarified that it's only true for "identity goals" where telling people about the goal is part of what the goal is. Like "I want to be a runner." By saying so you're making it sort of more true in
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by dreeves 10y ago
Woo-hoo! Thanks so much for saying so! (And I see you've passed 4 years of beeminding recently, which is maybe an even more powerful testimonial!)
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by dreeves 10y ago
Here are my notes on possibilities, for if we ever actually get a CRM: 1. HelpScout -- http://helpscout.net -- Seems nice 2. SupportBee -- http://supportbee.com -- Almost want it for the name alone but we got an anti
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by dreeves 10y ago
Relevant Paul Graham quote: > Some startups could be entirely manual at first. > If you can find someone with a problem that > needs solving and you can solve it manually, go > ahead and do that for as lo
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The Shirk and Turk Principle (related to Do Things That Don't Scale)(blog.beeminder.com)
10 points by dreeves 10y ago|5 comments
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by dreeves 10y ago
Your intuition is better than mine! I crunched it out (just now edited my answer to show how) but still have no intuitive sense of why it should be the golden ratio. Would love to hear some intuition for that!
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by dreeves 10y ago
Oh my god it's the golden ratio! That's so cool! EDIT: I'll show my work, rot13'd... Jr pna cnenzrgrevmr n fgengrtl ol n guerfubyq g: gur inyhr gung gur svefg qenj arrqf gb or yrff guna va beqre gb pubbfr gb qenj ntnva.
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by dreeves 10y ago
Thanks for the implicit Beeminder plug! And funny Freudian slip there with "corporate welfare" instead of "corporate wellness". :)
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by dreeves 10y ago
We're working on making it nice and streamlined to add them! So, lots, we hope! Let us know what you think we should add next.
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by dreeves 10y ago
Ha, you said this much better than me! Thanks!
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by dreeves 10y ago
(I'm a Beeminder cofounder) This is good feedback; thank you! We're mostly ok with targeting the particular psychology that this kind of thing works for (our very self-serving characterization thereof: http://blog.beemi
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by dreeves 10y ago
Related: http://messymatters.com/ai-plus-ui/ About how AI often needs a good UI to handle the last few percent of cases.
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by dreeves 10y ago
Sounds like you're espousing the doctrine of Revealed Preference! Here's my reductio proof that actions don't always reveal preferences: http://blog.beeminder.com/revealed/ Short version: People sometime
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by dreeves 10y ago
Beautiful collection! I'd love to convince you to reject from the collection any smarmbot emails -- http://blog.beeminder.com/smarmbot -- which I define as emails that pretend to be sent personally ("I noticed tha
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by dreeves 11y ago
I like user andlarry's characterization: "very hill-climby optimization". The other technical CS term is "greedy". This is related to a much less bad (but still kinda bad) thing that companies often do, namely sendi
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by dreeves 11y ago
Beeminder! And, yes, we have a whole blog post about why we're better than Don't Break The Chain apps: http://blog.beeminder.com/seinfeld/ (That post also includes a link to what we think is the best Don&#x27
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by dreeves 11y ago
Hooray! New user! :) Our biggest issue right now is that we've gone so far down the rabbit hole with our hardcore superfans that it's a little overwhelming for newbees (as we call them; our 2nd biggest issue is our obsession with
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by dreeves 11y ago
Here's our (Beeminder's) argument against anti-charities, clever as that is: http://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity
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by dreeves 11y ago
Congratulations on the launch! Just added you to our list of fellow commitment device apps: http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors (We're genuinely delighted to have more competitors! Check out the "Sushi and Green

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