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Re:Show HN: WorkOrPay – Set goals, form contracts, pay a pen... by constantinum on Sunday April 24, 2022 @11:30AM (#31144982)
How is this different from Beeminder — afaik popularised "commitment contract". I'm an active user of Beeminder; have 4 active commitments. More than feature to feature comparison, Beeminder has an amazing blog, and an ever supportive community to lean on to.

[links] https://www.beeminder.com/home https://blog.beeminder.com/ https://forum.beeminder.com/

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Re:Show HN: WorkOrPay – Set goals, form contracts, pay a pen... by khromem on Sunday April 24, 2022 @12:01PM (#31145336)
Beeminder is great. However, it's all automated and you cannot set huge penalties for single goals. Also, It's limited to things that can be verified from fitness trackers and other apps thats many people do not use.

WorkOrPay tries to add more human interactions. We text users daily to make sure they aren't starting slack off. We help them form reasonable goals. Do verifications manually, so the goals can really be anything.

We are a mix between beeminder and a life coach.

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Re:Show HN: WorkOrPay – Set goals, form contracts, pay a pen... by adamzerner on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:21PM (#31146097)
> However, it's all automated... Also, It's limited to things that can be verified from fitness trackers and other apps thats many people do not use.

That isn't true. You can track progress on a goal manually, as well as automatically. For example, I used to use Beeminder to track how many push ups I did.

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Re:Show HN: WorkOrPay – Set goals, form contracts, pay a pen... by khromem on Sunday April 24, 2022 @05:46PM (#31148645)
True, but if you add manually then there is no verification
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Re:Show HN: WorkOrPay – Set goals, form contracts, pay a pen... by neya on Sunday April 24, 2022 @05:51PM (#31148679)
>We are a mix between beeminder and a life coach

This sounds like a great product idea. Screw automated follow ups. I have tried it abs it doesn’t work. I would prefer a personal touch anyday!

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