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Beeminder Is Sixy!
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
The last year has flown by like a swarm of bees. We do one of these blog posts every year and they’re kind of a mix between a family Christmas letter and a state of the union address. We’ll spend a while congratulating ourselves on the charming new babies we made this last year, we’ll... »
Fifth Anniversary of Beeminder
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,... »
What It Means To Give Beeminder Your Credit Card
Monday, May 9th, 2016
One of the main things we’re working on right now is making Beeminder more comprehensible to newbees. We’ve even hired a web designer, Josh Pitzalis, to help us with a big redesign. Writing blog posts explaining (sometimes »
Death To Freebees; Or, Freebees Für Alles
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
News! We scrapped the overcomplicated concept of Freebees. But don’t panic! By scrapping it we mean that you don’t need to know the term “freebees” or worry about buying them: All goals can now be created with an initial pledge of $0. Can we get a hallelujah? (If you want to cap your pledge at $0, you still need a... »
Cyber Monday: OK, Fine
Monday, November 30th, 2015
Smoking Sticks and Carrots
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
This is crossposted on Messy Matters. Let’s talk about science! Beehavioral science. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week has been all over the news. It’s much better than... »
Pomodoro Poker
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Last week Bee talked about Tocks. That’s our neologism for 45-minute pomodoros, as well as our characteristically over-engineered system for minding them. She listed some gamification-y tips for effective tocking and assured everyone that all our other ideas involved money. That of course included beeminding tocks, as discussed last time, and certainly includes... »
Beeminder Turns Three!
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014
Yo Yo Yo and a buckle of gold, Beeminder just turned three years old! This time last year we were sitting in a hotel in San Francisco during the Quantified Self global conference, excited about our year... »
Freebees: Not Actually Free
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
So many changes lately to freebees and adding pledges to goals! First,... »