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It’s our 7th press roundup! This time we wanted an excuse to show off our coverage in last month’s issue of Discover Magazine. The author (who also covered us in »
Archive for 2015
Systems Not Goals
Friday, December 11th, 2015
My cofounder and I are proud to be featured on the latest Sources & Methods podcast. One of many things we talk about in that episode is Dilbert creator Scott Adams’s claim that goals are for losers. We’ve decided that our response to that needs to be its own blog post. So,... »
Cyber Monday: OK, Fine Never Again
Monday, November 30th, 2015
Of the roughly 6,000 active Beeminder users, we’re approaching 1,000 who like us so much that they’ve opted in to more frequent »
Beeminder’s Youngest User
Saturday, November 21st, 2015
Imagine a world where children grow up with Beeminder as a way of life. Well we created Beeminder when our kids were babies so here in Portland (at least in our house) that world exists, as a reality. Here to tell you about that is Beeminder’s presumably youngest user, ... »
Hard Commitments & Soft Commitments: Beeminder ♥ Complice
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
We’re hugely impressed with both Malcolm Ocean and his now two-year-old startup, Complice. We’re especially proud that Malcolm’s been beeminding User-Visible Improvements to Complice since the beginning. ... »
Fourth Anniversary of Beeminder
Thursday, October 29th, 2015
Beeminder is four years old! We’d liiike to get this blog post started by telling you what we’ve been working on this last year (revamped reminders! so many new integrations! new versions of smartphone apps! meetups and Quantified Self!), buuut you’re probably more interested in the question of whether we owe someone $810, or if we... »
Hard-Committing To Do Something “Soon”
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Deadlines are really important. Without them things don’t ever get shipped. But they’re also — if you can hard-commit to them, which you have to or else they’re pointless — kind of awful and arbitrary and stressful. Epiphany: Beeminder gives a way to get the key advantage of a deadline without the stress and arbitrariness. What you do is,... »
Chasing Waterfalls
Monday, October 12th, 2015
Last week (or however often we have Beeminder force us to get blog posts out the door) we announced our big »
Revamped Reminders
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Press Roundup: A Year of Buzz
Friday, September 18th, 2015
Remember our press roundups? What’s The Buzz? Beeminder Buzz at 30,000 Feet Front Page of the Wall Street Journal Another... »