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

Akrasia
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What type of goals are those?

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Whatever is normal for a gmailzero goal with the integration (probably whittle down) and one thatā€™s definitely a whittle down goal.

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VoilĆ :

(Though, Iā€™ll admit that I havenā€™t looked at that version at all in yearsā€¦ but I do still use a version of it for some of my own goals and thinks itā€™s the catā€™s pyjamas, if I do say so myself.)

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Oh thank you! Iā€™ve been wondering about that and wanting to try it out!!!

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Youā€™re more than welcome. Iā€™m just kinda bummed that I havenā€™t made it better and uploaded more in the last few years.

But please let me know what you think of it if you try it! Iā€™ve been tempted to do more with it, but Iā€™m often too busy to play with these things, so iā€™d be curious what kinds of solutions other people might come up with too!

Actually, all day Iā€™ve been fighting off the urge to shirk my responsibilities and fiddle with it. If I succumb to that temptation in the near future, Iā€™ll let people know!

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@mary Looks like itā€™s a PHP webpage? Does it require regular visits to update the goal rates with auto-dialer then?

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well this escalated quickly

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Sorry! This got derailed.
Letā€™s move any conversation about the autodialer to: Help yourself to some API files

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I mean the whole thread about running the company with the use of beeminder, sorry for not being specific :slight_smile:

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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 ā€œimprovementā€. When we originally announced our commitment to do this we listed all of the following as things that count:

  • 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)
  • 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, weā€™ve gradually gotten more ambitious. Fixing typos and adding tips of the day and whatnot donā€™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 doesnā€™t count as a UVI.

The real criterion is simply anything weā€™re not ashamed to publicly announce as our UVI of the day. We have (just) enough pride that weā€™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 :slight_smile: ?

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Iā€™ve been away for a while. Bumping this to the top of the forum. Any other known cases where beeminder is used within an organization/company?

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