Show HN: Kommit – Web app to help you follow through with NY's resolutions

Re:Show HN: Kommit – Web app to help you follow through with... by codesections on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:19AM (#29736479)

> (Beeminder is primarily based on API integrations)

This strikes me as a significant mischaracterization of Beeminder. I've used Beeminder for 5+ years[0] and I've never used an API integration — Beeminder supports manually entering data for any goal. (And basically none of my goals have been digital; I'm not sure where you got the impression that Beeminder exclusively targets digital goals).

[0]: https://www.beeminder.com/codesections/gallery

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Re:Show HN: Kommit – Web app to help you follow through with... by calmdown13 on Thursday December 30, 2021 @08:35AM (#29736574)

My bad, I thought the primary selling point was that it would would hook into the services you already use for tracking your commitment (Strava, GitHub, etc.). I am aware that you can manually enter some data but I didn't think there was any way to validate the data that you enter and I didn't think it was their focus.

Anyway, sorry for the misrepresentation. I will update my comment above to be more accurate.

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Re:Show HN: Kommit – Web app to help you follow through with... by codesections on Thursday December 30, 2021 @09:44AM (#29737079)

Thanks for the update, and you're absolutely right that Beeminder doesn't offer any way to validate the data you enter. They discuss why (in their view, of course) trusting user-entered data works in this blog post: https://blog.beeminder.com/cheating/

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