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Yeah I was a bit gutted when I found Stickk after spending a bunch of time building Kommit. It's super similar and I felt a bit silly for not doing the research beforehand.

However, considering Stickk has existed for something like 14 years, it doesn't feel particularly mature. I don’t want to be too disparaging (and I’m obviously biased) but I found their website quite clunky and the apps don’t receive great reviews (1.8 on IOS and 3.0 on Android).

A few aspects that I believe are better in Kommit:

  - More control over deadline schedules (you can set it to repeat on multiple specified days of the week).
  - More control over punishment rules (you can choose how many consecutive failures are allowed before you're punished).
  - You can give yourself skip days (useful if you know you’re likely to need a vacation).
  - You can update commitments (there is a mechanism to allow updates while preventing you from dodging punishments).

That being said, they do have some cool features such as donating to an "Anti-Charity" (a controversial charity that you don’t support) upon failure.

[dreeves]

Definitely don't be discouraged by the existence of StickK! They technically already have the referee feature (that being your key distinction from Beeminder, which has a much less powerful version of that feature) but everything else about StickK is... well, I think you've already surpassed them despite their decade+ head start. They seem to have sadly been in zombie mode for years, since the founders left. I guess they're still making money though, which should be encouraging for Kommit!

Btw, here's our argument against the anti-charity feature: https://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity/

(I'm a cofounder of Beeminder, if that wasn't obvious. Also I just added Kommit to https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors/ -- very excited to have you as a competitor!)

[calmdown13]

Thanks for the kind words! It means a lot coming from yourself. As I've said elsewhere, I think Beeminder is the best competing solution I've come across :)

Love your attitude towards competition and I'm excited to be considered a competitor!

[epaga]

Another similar site is beeminder - pretty cool concept! There is more than enough room for similar sites.