khromem

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by khromem 2y ago
Is this a cheaper alternative to browserbase? I am a bit confused since you mention creating endpoints for scraping many times, I just want to do browser automation. Is that a use case you support?
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by khromem 4y ago
True, but if you add manually then there is no verification
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by khromem 4y ago
Good point. Just updated the site to make that clear. Thanks!
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by khromem 4y ago
Beeminder is largely automated. We try to offer much more human support. Such as daily texts and manual verification of goals instead of just pulling data from an API.
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by khromem 4y ago
Beeminder is great. However, it's all automated and you cannot set huge penalties for single goals. Also, It's limited to things that can be verified from fitness trackers and other apps thats many people do not use. WorkOrPay tri
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by khromem 4y ago
The role of this is to bridge the gaps between the spikes of internal motivation. A lot of times people start working on something new and for the first few days they have enough motivation to stick with it. But when that disappears a lot o
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by khromem 4y ago
Exactly! I have used beeminder and stickk. But there were a few things that bugged me about them. 1) Theres no option to have a referee that isn't friends or family 2) Its automated, and no human actually checks up to see if you are st
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by khromem 4y ago
From what I have seen, depositing before making the commitment makes you much more likely to succeed. Seeing the money leave your account creates a lot of psychological pressure that otherwise doesn't exist. The verification system is
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by khromem 4y ago
I actually used to make my friends promise to give away my money if I failed to do whatever. But it never really worked that great because I would always make some plausible excuse and my friends would let it slide and eventually just give
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by khromem 4y ago
We are a New York LLC. We're not incorporated at the moment. We make money through a subscription model. We do not make anything from the contracts because it seemed wrong to profit from our users failing. We want our incentives to be
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by khromem 4y ago
For my whole life, I have been dealing with bursts of motivation where I am extremely productive for several days, followed by weeks-long slumps. This yo-yo behavior does not let a person develop their skills or build anything substantial.
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83 points by khromem 4y ago|60 comments