Ever thought of doing a reverse Beeminder?

Instead you load up an amount of money and pay yourself back by completing tasks/achieving goals etc…

Probably more annoying from an accounting perspective.

I’m sure you’ve already thought of this, just curious.

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Funny timing, we just blogged about that:

There’s also some interesting debate about it in another forum thread:

I really love this. I feel like it’s precisely the best of both worlds. Let Beeminder focus on the punishment, and you arrange your accounting in whatever makes that most motivating for you.

I know others think I’m wrong and that Beeminder could be more powerful by holding on to people’s money – that you can’t replicate that by shuffling money in your own bank accounts – but, well, those people should make a Beeminder competitor that works that way! I’m declaring, ex officio, that monetary positive reinforcement is counter to Beeminder’s philosophy. But we very much endorse the @physicsgal strategy of reframing Beeminder’s stings – or lack of them – as payouts via the magic of YNAB budget categories.

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I did this for almost a year. I paid myself every time I made a 3D model. The reward was random and I could spend the money in whatever I wanted to, specially books.

This is the machine I build

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