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by dreeves 13y ago
Well said! If there's no question that auto-canceling subscriptions are in the best interest of the user then I feel like it's case closed. As for customer education about the policy (repeating myself from my other comment) we do have it in
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by dreeves 13y ago
Post author here. To try to answer some questions that came up off-line: We do try to be clear about this policy up front: > If you stop using Beeminder, we automatically stop charging you. We only want your money if you're actively get
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Auto-Canceling Subscriptions(blog.beeminder.com)
36 points by dreeves 13y ago|19 comments
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by dreeves 13y ago
I have a proposal that's in one sense the best of both worlds: auto-canceling subscriptions. Like where you automatically stop charging the user if they stop using your service. I take it that the cognitive overhead of perennially re-evalua
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AngularJS + D3.js = Radian(skybluetrades.net)
3 points by dreeves 13y ago|0 comments
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by dreeves 13y ago
My wife is the author of this. Here's maybe my favorite excerpt: "With separate money we’ve got a whole new class of conflict resolution. We still debate, negotiate, argue, ... but any decision has a fallback resolution method as definitive
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by dreeves 13y ago
Nick Winter is amazing and so is this book. (And not just because my startup features extensively in it!) It has a lot of solid behavioral science in it, as well as highly entertaining stunts. Like how the author sets up a commitment contra
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Financial Autonomy in Marriage(messymatters.com)
1 points by dreeves 13y ago|1 comments
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by dreeves 14y ago
Two previous discussions: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478532 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1378232 (My take on this kind of thing is foremost to acknowledge that it's not enough to make an argument that an existenti
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by dreeves 14y ago
It appeared in Wired 13 years ago this month, according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_The_Future_Doesnt_Need_Us
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Why the future doesn't need us (2000)(wired.com)
29 points by dreeves 14y ago|18 comments
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by dreeves 14y ago
Beeminder started this way too (it was Kibotzer -- the kibitzing bot [ http://blog.beeminder.com/beenamer ] -- back then). Bot emails you asking for your number (eg, your weight) and sends you back a graph of your progress.
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by dreeves 14y ago
I definitely understand the all-or-nothing mentality! And I think it's rational in that it solves the slippery slope problem. It's the same reason to identify as a vegetarian instead of, say, only eating meat on special occasions. Slippery
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by dreeves 14y ago
Late to the party but I can't believe no one has linked to The Onion's baby skull video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKccr8g1xCU
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by dreeves 14y ago
Thanks so much for saying this! This is exactly how feel ourselves. :) Danny of http://beeminder.com
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by dreeves 14y ago
As far as fighting procrastination (and more generally: akrasia) I'm a big fan of going straight for the nuclear option: commitment devices! Here are all the startups I know of that offer commitment devices: http://blog.beeminder.com/compe
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It's the Sugar, Folks(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by dreeves 14y ago|0 comments
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by dreeves 14y ago
Beeminder started this way too (it was Kibotzer -- the kibitzing bot [ http://blog.beeminder.com/beenamer ] -- back then). Bot emails you asking for your number (eg, your weight) and sends you back a graph of your progress.
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by dreeves 14y ago
Ha, great point! For our own User-Visible Improvements goal we initially felt like it shouldn't count to fix a bug that we had only just created, since that's not exactly a net improvement. But then we decided that it's fine to count it, fo
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by dreeves 14y ago
Oh, Gitminder does let you beemind private repos, as long as the github account you oauth with has access to it.
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by dreeves 14y ago
Ooh, yes, GitHub's impact metric. We should add that. I think minding commits isn't as bad as it could be theoretically though. I feel like pride is sufficient deterrent not to do pointless commits. And general pressure for more fine-graine
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by dreeves 14y ago
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
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Commit to Keep Coding – GitHub + Beeminder(gitminder.com)
29 points by dreeves 14y ago|13 comments
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by dreeves 14y ago
This is a beautiful example of a strong commitment device! I've been collecting examples of commitment devices at http://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia/#AUG (my startup, Beeminder, is also an example of a commitment device).
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by dreeves 14y ago
Ooh, reminds me of the accent on Tangier Island, Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... (that's a direct link to an example of the Tangier accent, which the article claims is not an uncorrupted version o
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by dreeves 14y ago
Ooh, one of our competitors generalizes the idea of Facebook humiliation as a commitment device: http://aherk.com Other startups offering commitment devices as a service: http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors
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by dreeves 14y ago
Yikes, on an hour-adjusted basis you've shown us up brutally. We've put over 10,000 person-hours into http://Beeminder.com But, especially now that we have RescueTime integration, I think our solution is better! Here's what RescueTime gen
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by dreeves 14y ago
The one thing holding me back from Sublime Text is fonts. I really want the Fixed 6x13 font (like xterms use) which requires anti-aliasing turned off. Does anyone know if that's possible in Sublime Text? Link to the xterm font: http://yoot
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by dreeves 14y ago
Uh oh, are you referring to Beeminder here? PS: Thanks so much to lefnire of http://HabitRPG.com for the kind words!
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by dreeves 14y ago
Smart, done. Thanks so much, John. (Now I'm dreading the skull and crossbones watermark that's going to appear when he derails on his public goal -- especially for how that will look to people not familiar with Beeminder. Maybe I'll suppres

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