# Anyone running their company (contracts/promises) with the use of beeminder?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anyone-running-their-company-contracts-promises-with-the-use-of-beeminder/4886>\
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**Created:** [February 4, 2019, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anyone-running-their-company-contracts-promises-with-the-use-of-beeminder/4886 "2019-02-04T11:08:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![bcool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@bcool](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/bcool)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/anyone-running-their-company-contracts-promises-with-the-use-of-beeminder/4886/30 "2019-03-10T11:33:20Z")

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> [@dreev](#):
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> I’ve managed to convince a handful of founder friends over the years to [beemind UVIs](http://messymatters.com/uvi), which is still my top recommendation for beeminding something like a startup or side business.

Experimenting since 1 week with UVI. Setting the slope pretty flat.

Wanted to ask what counts as UVI, so I found this

> You can start with a very unambitious definition of “improvement”. When we originally [announced](http://blog.beeminder.com/rails) our commitment to do this we listed all of the following as things that count:
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> - New blog posts
> - Fixing typos
> - Tweaking the layout or the logo or whatever
> - Improvements to how the bot responds to emails
> - Tweaks to the algorithm for generating the yellow brick road
> - Tweets from our main twitter account ([@bmndr](http://twitter.com/bmndr))
> - Improvements to the log in procedure or payment processing
> - Any new feature or tweak to any feature
> - New tips-of-the-day in the email responses from the bot
> 
> Basically, anything that makes Beeminder better, even in the most tiny, trivial way. Over the last 1000 days, we’ve gradually gotten more ambitious. Fixing typos and adding tips of the day and whatnot don’t count anymore. Bugfixes and CSS tweaks still do. And we have a separate graph for blog posts, which you can see in the sidebar, so this article doesn’t count as a UVI.
> 
> The real criterion is simply anything we’re not ashamed to publicly announce as our UVI of the day. We have (just) enough pride that we’d rather cough up the $1000 than tweet anything that clearly violates the spirit of the commitment.

Outstanding recommendation, will keep experimenting with it. Any other recommendations 🙂 ?

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