[joisig]

I'm a very long-time Beeminder user and would recommend it to anybody looking for another motivational mechanism. It's not always the best approach to motivation, but for certain types of goals like "work out frequently enough", the one-week "akrasia horizon" which kind of means you're mentally committing to work by your future self rather than your present self (and as your present self you can only un-commit with a week's notice), along with staying on a good-enough-on-average "yellow brick road" as they call it, is a game-changer.

[hiAndrewQuinn]

Me too. Beeminder was part of how I quit drinking.

I just logged one dot manually every day, at the end of the day, when I had managed to shrug it off. It was very difficult at first but I knew I had to keep going. About four months in I bought a pizza to celebrate 100 days, and the habit has stuck ever since. Recently I got myself kebab for 365 days without a drop.

https://www.beeminder.com/resonant_pyre/days-since-drinking

[kqr]

I just signed up. I think the way they explain in blog posts how they navigate a very tricky business model ("pay us when you fail" is the mother of perverse incentives) is highly admirable.