Pavlok anyone?

[phi]

Does anyone here have experience with using https://pavlok.com? In general but also in conjunction with or as an alternative to Beeminder.
I just re-learned about this shocking (pun intended) device and I thought to myself “how extreme! This has @dreev written all over it”. And when I subsequently googled for pavlok and Beeminder I found an old ycombinator post of the very same
But seriously, I am intrigued. Any experiences?

There is also this very old forum post, sadly without any actual discussion:

Pavlok - A serious Beeminder competitor?

Maneesh Sethi, the behavior change expert that hired a girl off Craigslist to slap him in the face every time he got distracted from working on his thesis, has come up with something even weirder: A wristband that let your friends electroshock you if you don’t stick to your habits. It may even act as an alarm clock that give an electric shock you if you snooze too many times. Wakeup guaranteed! The video below, an interview on habit change, was very interesting so I recommend watching in …

[itshalffull]

One of the problems with Pavlok is that there is no Akrasia horizon, nothing to stop you from just taking it off. I’ve never used it for this purpose but I have heard it and the shockclock are very good for waking you up though.