Press Roundup: 99 More Things The Internet Has Said About Beeminder

The time has come (the fandom said) to talk of many things. Of books, podcasts, and articles. Of victories and stings.

With little further ado other than to point you to our collection of the last 10 press roundups we’ve done, here are all the nice things people have been saying about Beeminder since the last time we did this 7 months ago. (The only not-nice thing we noticed was a confusing Twitter exchange.)

Hover over links for comments and excerpts!

1. Nice example of using a Beeminder graph to publicly commit to something: xkcd forum user Madge’s posts all include a signature with pointer to a Beeminder graph of their novel-writing progress
2. Love in the slatestarcodex subreddit comments regarding ADHD
3. Nice testimonial and review of beeminding steps and calories with a Fitbit
4. We’re included in a list of startup resources
5. Programming Myself
6. Followup post to the above, with long interview with Beeminder cofounder
7. We’re featured on a shiny new Partners page for Epson wearables
8. We’re one of 5 apps to tackle the new year’s slump
9. Creative beeminding of Instagram posting using Zapier
10. TicTag is a new implementation of TagTime by John Swanson with Beeminder integration
11. Lots of signups from Patrik Edblad’s Medium post on how to motivate yourself (or see the version on Selfication)
12. One we missed last time, about connecting Todoist and Beeminder with our API and a personal blog post that mentions using it
13. Ronan Cannon beeminding blogging
14. Master Arabic
15. Another example of pointing to a Beeminder graph to publicly commit to something (in this case getting better at playing Go)
16. Beeminder as part of a weight loss plan
17. Beautiful testimonial on Hacker News
18. Collection of anti-akrasia links
19. Beeminding studying
20. Apps to Help In Improving Yourself
21. How To Easily Read 3 Books a Week
22. Improve Your Health with Behavior Change Science
23. 5 Tips on How to Make Your Writing Process Feel Like a Game
24. We’re apparently the best (if being listed first means anything) habit forming app of 2017, which is a somewhat ambiguous way to put that
25. Tracking writing goals: Scrivener + Dropbox + Beeminder
26. Strategies to Fit Learning a Language into Your Schedule (but wrongly claims we do anti-charities like StickK)
27. How To Read a Texbook
28. Delightful YouTube review and explanation of Beeminder by Nimble Couch Potatoes
29. Beeminder and other productivity apps (in Swedish)
30. We’re discussed or mentioned in a Spanish-language podcast
31. Blush! We’re a favorite blog of Robby MacDonell of RescueTime
32. How To Be Successful
33. Habits: my new favorite form of behavior modification
34. Response to above on Tumblr
35. How do I overcome procrastination when I don’t have an external deadline? (Quora answer)
36. Beeminder Experiment
37. Why PhD Students Procrastinate and What We Can Do About It (in which the author claims Beeminder transformed them from an amateur to a professional) (original version)
38. Beeminder discussion in the FreeCodeCamp forum
39. PutANumOnIt beeminds a highly creative metric for Time Well Spent
40. More Beeminder discussion in the slatestarcodex subreddit
41. Brennan Brown on How to Create & Plan Better (Using the Internet and Bees)
42. Tiny mention in some tips to stop procrastinating
43. Beeminder and RescueTime in Russian
44. Followup to the above
45. A nice article on akrasia that might be borrowing liberally from the Beeminder blog
46. Apps That Help Achieve Goals [UPDATE: link died]
47. How to (90% Automatically) Track Scrivener (Mac or Windows) Word Counts in Beeminder
48. How to Reduce the Need for Willpower, and Manage What You Have and Medium version
49. Beeminder cofounder interviewed in a podcast, “Life-hacks, nudges and choice architecture,” along with Richard Thaler of “Nudge” fame
50. Apps To Help You Lose and Manage Your Weight
51. Haskell package for talking to the Beeminder API
52. Alice Gong beeminding her way through a textbook
53. A nice list and lots of detail about Beeminder from Coach.me: 6 Accountability Apps That Will Skyrocket Your Success
54. More Instagram love
55. Limitations of the Beeminder Model (critical but concludes that Beeminder is the best solution that currently exists)
56. Musings on blogging
57. Top Educational Apps for Teens
58. How To Learn New Skills Quickly
59. Productivity Apps for College Students and Young Professionals
60. Yay! Floris Kleijne is Halfway to 125k words written in 2017
61. Ways to Make Writing a Lot More Fun
62. How I Use Beeminder
63. New page on Complice about the Complice+Beeminder integration
64. GTD Revisited
65. Goaltracker
66. Top 5 Motivation Tips
67. Prototype Beeminder Pebble app!
68. Discussion in the Mr Money Mustache forum
69. Why Are You Not Doing The Thing You Have To? A Guide to Removing Distractions and Beating Procrastination in Your School Life
70. Beeminder at the Quantified Self conference
71. There were also talks and other things on the QS17 program related to Beeminder, with video links coming
72. Discussion of Beeminder and avoiding cheating on the HabitHelp subreddit
73. How to get out of “auto-pilot” while at work?
74. Collection of links
75. Beetimer
76. Another example of beeminding reading a book
77. Time Management
78. Using Beeminder to practice violin
79. How To Stop Procrastinating and Start Growing Your Business Today
80. Beeminder Weight Loss App and Lifestyle Change Tips (well done and fair and pretty funny, despite kind of ripping Beeminder a new b-hole)
81. Beeminder cofounder Bethany Soule on the “Building Programmers” podcast
82. Another book-reading goal
83. Create a Daily Writing Habit with Beeminder and Draft
84. Something in Russian that includes a nice testimonial from a superfan
85. Discussion of Beeminder in CollegeInfoGeek’s podcast
86. A Twist To Your Regular Phone Use
87. Podcast on education that talks about Beeminder
88. Minding OmniFocus
89. How Can Creative Punishments Help Meet Your Goals?
90. Count Bites, Not Calories
91. Language Learning Accountability Tools You’re Probably Not Using (not sure if we should be miffed at the “probably not using” part!)
92. Apps To Change Financial Behavior
93. My Own Worst Enemy
94. $2430 Beeminder Pledge?
95. Side Hustle School Podcast talks about someone who beeminded getting a book written
96. Less Spockiness, More Alien Fist Fights
97. Tell Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to update a Beeminder goal (via IFTTT)
98. Christopher Su’s Akr.asia for automatically beeminding many more things
99. Finally, we’ll lump together the hundreds of new tweets about Beeminder

Thank you so much to everyone helping spread the good word about Beeminder, not to mention building new Beeminder-integrated tools! (Do holler if we missed a link to something you wrote. We’d like to send stickers to all 99+ of you if you’re willing to tell us your snail-mail address.)

PS: Yet more Beeminder discussion is going on all the time in the Beeminder Forum.