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New Feature: Pledge Caps
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014
Ringcycles Wins Fat Cyclist Weight Loss Contest!
Monday, July 7th, 2014
This is crossposted on the Fat Cyclist blog. Greetings not-so-fat cyclists! We’re pretty much beside ourselves with how the first annual (oh presumption!) Beeminder Fat Cyclist Weight Loss Competition turned out. When we say we’re beside ourselves we mean that literally —... »
Exquisitely Fair Pre-Pay Discounts
Monday, May 13th, 2013
You know how a lot of services offer things like one month free if you pay yearly? We were nerding out over the math of that and thought, why not generalize to compute the perfectly fair discount for paying at any frequency you like, including every infinity years, i.e., paying once for a lifetime subscription? Just pick... »
Auto-Canceling Subscriptions
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
“Well I’ve already paid for Netflix this month, so I might as well watch another episode of ‘Say Yes To The Dress’. I’ll get around to canceling later. You know, when I’m less busy.” — A slightly caricatured version of me. When you sign up for some subscription services they make... »
Announcing Beeminder Premium Plans: Bee Lite, Plan Bee, Beemium, and Beekeeper
Friday, April 12th, 2013
UPDATE 2014-07-17: This post now reflects the current prices. When it was published... »
Intrafamily Bets and the Genius of the Exponential Pledge Schedule
Monday, March 25th, 2013
My mom recently lost $5,000 to my brother in a commitment contract gone wild. That was started in part as an experiment early in Beeminder’s beta period before we’d thought of things like the exponential pledge schedule. Believe it or not, it was actually a pretty positive outcome: my mom gradually lost a tiny bit of... »
Socially Efficient Commitment Devices
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Beeminder Error in Your Favor, and Other Crashes of Ineptitude
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Earlier this month some dozens of you got a delightful little email from us like this: this is super embarrassing but there’s a chance you were affected by a bug where we thought we canceled a charge but then it went through anyway. partly as self-punishment we’re just refunding all the charges where that could possibly have happened. so either you’re rightfully getting a refund or you’re getting a random reprieve on a past derailment! either way a refund of $... »
Perverse Incentives and the Paradox of Beeminder’s Sting
Sunday, August 19th, 2012
People often complain about Beeminder’s perverse incentives. We started to address that at the end of our recent blog post comparing ourselves to GymPact: It seems that from the perspective of those paying us, Beeminder is providing a ton of value and a ton of motivation and the occasional cost of derailment... »