# I want to get back into beeminder, here's what's stopping me

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/i-want-to-get-back-into-beeminder-heres-whats-stopping-me/11056>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [July 26, 2023, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/i-want-to-get-back-into-beeminder-heres-whats-stopping-me/11056 "2023-07-26T14:36:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![braun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@braun](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/braun)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/i-want-to-get-back-into-beeminder-heres-whats-stopping-me/11056/13 "2023-08-07T16:20:01Z")

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Update: I still want to get back into beeminder. Especially after hearing about @felixm’s [SICP goal](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/my-accumulated-spending-on-beeminder-just-exceeded-1-000/10910/6) (I’ve had it on my list to work through SICP for a long time).

Right now I’m weighing:

1. Pay $50 for Beemium (seriously considering it, though on some level it’s laughable considering this would be easily the most I pay for a consumer app (I subscribe to a decent amount) and this is the only one that takes even more of your money as a service).
2. Seeing if a relatively free/less rankling option like streaks (one time $5) or habitify (one time $60) works.
3. Trying out forfeit more (still been using it for one off, triage type goals, but eager to see if they get better at longer term habit type stuff – I talked to the founder a bit and they seem young, motivated, and pretty talented, so we’ll see).
4. Building something myself (considering this, albeit maybe not as seriously). I think there’s opportunity here though – e.g. right now the “market price” for a commitment device app is expensive – $8-50 a month + they keep all your pledges. Maybe that’s right (and based on all the failed past competitors it seems at least very possible), but I also could see it being lower with more competition, maybe something like a one time/monthly fee + all your pledges are donated to give directly or something.
5. Using normal beeminder with the lower pledge schedule – might work, the problem is a combo of knowing the initial pledges aren’t really that motivating + knowing _why_ I can’t set it higher might make me too annoyed to use it.

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