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Beehind the Curtain: Secrets of our Support Success(blog.beeminder.com)
17 points by dreeves 13y ago|5 comments
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by dreeves 13y ago
Oh, wow, yes, "digital nanny" sounds very intriguing. Pinging you now! (And thanks for kind words!)
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by dreeves 13y ago
Ooh, no, I think beeminding is pretty low overhead! Especially if you connect it with RescueTime or another automatic data source. Maybe still too much learning curve up front but once you have it set up and dialed in it's nearly frict
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by dreeves 13y ago
Aw man! It's so true, but we really hate making videos and A/B tests say that that video's much better than a nice professional image (we were too embarrassed to actually use that video for a long time, till we actually teste
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by dreeves 13y ago
If you set up an automatic data source (as opposed to replying to the email bot with datapoints, which for many things is not so bad either -- you're already in the habit of checking your email) then I don't think you have to deve
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by dreeves 13y ago
What that article describes is exactly the philosophy behind Beeminder. Now I'm dying to know what made you conclude that you don't have that problem (known most generally as Akrasia, btw) and what lifehackery you're now us
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by dreeves 13y ago
My startup is all about solving this problem! http://beeminder.com It's specifically for lifehacking data nerds (so probably most people here on HN) and the idea is to combine a quantified self tool with a commitment contra
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by dreeves 13y ago
This is good criticism, and I bet you'll like http://lift.do But here's our response to that: http://blog.beeminder.com/lift
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by dreeves 13y ago
Here's how we look at it: We force you to toe the line at least for a while so that when/if you do fall off your yellow brick road then the motivation Beeminder provided up until that point still seems worth it. Everything we&#x27
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by dreeves 13y ago
My startup is all about solving this problem! http://beeminder.com It's specifically for lifehacking data nerds (so probably most people here on HN) and the idea is to combine a quantified self tool with a commitment contra
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Famed hacker Barnaby Jack dies a week before hacking convention(reuters.com)
1 points by dreeves 13y ago|0 comments
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Spiraling Into Control, by the author of The Motivation Hacker, Nick Winter(blog.beeminder.com)
2 points by dreeves 13y ago|0 comments
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Pure Android: Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One 'Google Play editions' review(theverge.com)
1 points by dreeves 13y ago|0 comments
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by dreeves 13y ago
"Although functional, the experience was subpar, because the head proximity sensor was very unreliable when next to a lens." I turned off my proximity sensor (that's an option in settings -- "On-Head Detection") bec
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by dreeves 13y ago
Ooh, we have a solution to that problem (losing interest in collecting it if it's fully automated). Assuming you're collecting data that you want to change, like, for many people, their weight, or, say, how much time you spend on Hacker New
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by dreeves 13y ago
There are a lot of apps that could be used this way. I think http://lift.do might work well for this. And I know of people using our own http://beeminder.com for things like this.
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by dreeves 13y ago
Pingdom detected no downtime for beeminder.com, hosted in Linode's New Jersey datacenter (I think).
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by dreeves 13y ago
I did think it sounded too crazy to actually do, but I really like the way it turned out (did you try our demo slider?). And it is just a single slider, so not as bad as multiple decisions, exactly. Admittedly it's harder than "monthly vs y
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by dreeves 13y ago
Short version: If you offer users a discount for paying yearly instead of monthly, why not generalize that and give them a slider to choose how often they'll pay. Every 2 months, every 6 months, every year, every 2 years, every 5 years, ...
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Exquisitely Fair Pre-Pay Discounts(blog.beeminder.com)
10 points by dreeves 13y ago|4 comments
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by dreeves 13y ago
Ha, I think you're right, and thanks for that feedback! We just hate doing videos and a/b tests say that that beats the pants off the alternative of a nice, professional static image. So we're going with what we got for now. And, yes, that'
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by dreeves 13y ago
Here's my argument for why DST is a good idea: http://messymatters.com/dst/
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by dreeves 13y ago
I guess it doesn't count as a crypto currency but I'd add http://ripple.com to this list.
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by dreeves 13y ago
I'd love to convince you to beemind projects that you want to force yourself to see to fruition. http://beeminder.com (I'm a co-founder) If I'm lucky others will chime in to back me up that it's astoundingly effective for exactly the psyc
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by dreeves 13y ago
The gym is an interesting special case because there really is value in the commitment device of "I paid for this gym membership so it will feel really wasteful if I don't go all month". Our second biggest competitor -- http://gympact.com
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by dreeves 13y ago
Glad you pointed this out! We could add another check (though I'm sure it will almost always be moot) that you have to do something on Beeminder that only humans do to be considered active (either sign in or manually add data). The more I
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by dreeves 13y ago
I think the part that's the laziness tax is specifically the money being left on table -- from the business's point of view -- by using auto-canceling subscriptions. By definition that's money that you're collecting from someone despite the
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by dreeves 13y ago
Ah, thanks for adding the other viewpoint! My rebuttal: 1. It may be money you're leaving on the table but you can't really say it's money you're earning. It's like a laziness tax on your users. (And, uh, not in a good way.) 2. Your point a
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by dreeves 13y ago
Good question! Maybe we should have that as an option as well -- like pay 10 cents per datapoint you add to Beeminder. But I feel like that's harder for the user to reason about. They don't place value on individual datapoints, they value t
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by dreeves 13y ago
Actually we did get one complaint already, from someone who wants the ongoing payments as a way to guilt themself into returning to Beeminder. But I figure that's something only a Beeminder user could ever say! And if they're serious they s

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