Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
It’s almost New Year’s Day!
Since I am both an eternal optimist and obsessed with productivity tips /
planner Instagram
/ life improvement stories, this is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE holiday of the year.
For the last week or so, I’ve spent a decent amount of time... »
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
The tagline for Amazon Mechanical Turk is “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”.
As in, faking your AI by using humans.
Mechanical Turk is named after the contraption in the title image, which was a seeming chess-playing automaton from the late 1700s that was secretly operated by a small human hidden inside.
But this post isn’t about Amazon’s nifty service or... »
Friday, November 18th, 2016
It’s hard to believe it’s been 5 whole years since we were slamming red bull on dirty couches in a college-town garage, with our friends Sergei and Mark, moving fast and breaking things on our scrappy little startup, dreaming big about how we were going to change the world(wide web) with …
Oh wait. I mean,... »
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
It’s been a few weeks since we launched the
Big Beeminder Redesign of 2016.
For those of you who are web design nerds or just can’t get enough peeking inside the beehive, we’re proud to have the creative force behind the redesign,
... »
Tuesday, November 1st, 2016
Today marks the beginning of the 17th annual NaNoWriMo.
For the uninitiated that’s NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth.
For 17 years folks have been joining together on the internet over the month of November to pen their own 50,000 word novels.
This year they expect half a million participants.
That’s a lot of people trying to write a lot... »
Friday, October 14th, 2016
Remember back in the day (yesterday) when Beeminder’s interface was all cluttered and intimidating and looked like it was made in 2011, by kernel hackers and accountants?
Or computer scientists and behavioral econ nerds who gradually agglomerated a multiheaded beast of a system to implement their crazy lifehacking schemes.
Beeminder gave the impression that you needed... »
Wednesday, September 28th, 2016
Big news today: we have grown!
We’ll leave it to
Lillian
to tell the backstory but we are pretty over the moon about this.
We’ve been courting Lillian forever, even before it was financially realistic, since it seemed pretty clear she’d be able... »
Saturday, September 10th, 2016
First off, what do we mean by
derailing?
We mean you pass your deadline — midnight by default — with today’s datapoint in the red.
Here’s an example of a... »
Thursday, August 25th, 2016
This is a guest post by
Oliver Mayor,
an avid Beeminder user for going on four years.
He’s a software developer who’s interested in human-behavior-shaping technology and often has pretty deep insights related to Beeminder.
We were especially... »
Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
UPDATE 2018 July: We raised the price of the Infinibee plan from $4/mo to $8/mo.
UPDATE 2021 January 1: We raised the price of Beemium from $32/mo to $40/mo.
UPDATE 2021 November 26: We raised the price of Beemium again, to $50/mo. Turns out we don’t really want people to get Beemium!
To paraphrase Teen Talk Barbie, pricing... »