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The Pareto Dominance Principle for Apps and Websites
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
This is part 2 in a 3-part series. Part 1 defined Pareto dominance and Pareto-efficient software. I have some advice that now feels (to me, subjectively) too... »
How You Talk Yourself Out Of Reporting A Bug
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
It’s funny how universal it is for users (including programmers, including myself) to gravitate so strongly to “it’s probably just me / my crappy phone / my timezone / me not reading the webcopy / me not being deserving of love or working software / etc”. It might be an impulse to be kind and not... »
Derailing Is Not Failing; or, Beeminder Revenue Proportional To User Awesomeness
Saturday, March 2nd, 2019
“Potentially Paying Customers” We ended the last blog post with what you might think is an unfortunate epithet for new Beeminder users. Being buried at the end of a bunch of nitty-gritty about business reasons for the timing of collecting payment info, approximately zero percent of people noticed it, until we had to go... »
Commitwall: No More Beeminding Without A Way To Be Charged Money
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
If you’re nervous about handing over your credit card number, let us start by solemnly promising that we’re super trustworthy. Wait, that’s exactly what a scammer would say. Ok, getting more specific: We promise you won’t ever be charged due to any kind of technicality, including confusion about how Beeminder works. (You won’t be charged at all if... »
13th Beeminder Buzz Press Roundup
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Slytherin 404 Errors
Thursday, July 19th, 2018
UPDATE for webdev nerds: We realized we meant “403 Forbidden” rather than “401 Not Authorized”. Here’s a little information leak we noticed and fixed some months (ok, the better part of a year — blush!) after we publicly launched in late 2011: Say our user Alice has two goals. One is her book reading... »
Beeminder in the Wall Street Journal Every Five Years
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018
Guess who’s covered in the Wall Street Journal again! You’re very good at guessing. It may not count as the front page this time (unlike last time) since this front page article doesn’t start talking about Beeminder... »
Barfing Cats and Other Stories from Talking to Weasels in Support
Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
We’ve written a lot about weaseling and cheating (combatting it, recovering from it) in Beeminderland, and about how we approach customer support. Today we thought we’d share some of our standard responses... »
Feature Unannouncement: Exponential Roads Going Piecewise Linear
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
We have what sounds like bad news for Beeminder supernerds who use fanciness like exponential roads, but hear us out! We’re getting rid of exponential roads. I know, gasp! We’ve already migrated the small number of exponential roads... »