I don't know if a constant $5-per-infraction is really enough to spur people (e.g., me) along. How about going exponential, ala Beeminder[1]?
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#22Great idea, instantly reminded me of 'Lose It or Lose It' which is the same concept but for weight loss (loseitorloseit.com). Putting money on the line is always a great motivator. Whenever you get some completed projects it would be cool if there was a gallery to check them out.
Even more interesting would be to have a gallery of all pledged projects. That would be interesting alternative to Betalist/Betabait - filtering the startups who are far enough with progress to bet own cash on launch.
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#23I don't know if a constant $5-per-infraction is really enough to spur people (e.g., me) along. How about going exponential, ala Beeminder[1]? [1] https://www.beeminder.com/money
No point in making it too elaborate. You can always just disconnect the app so it can't auto-tweet for you if you regret.
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#24I think it would also be cool to link your projects (shipped or failed) to some type of karma system. This way you can show your scars and your successes. Maybe even target the karma report for VCs.
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#25Just to be clear... the company makes money only if their customers fail. Considering we fail more than we succeed, that might work out good!
Although, I can see a $1 charge for the tweet as a marketing fee so you make SOME money if the planets align and the product ships.
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#26Great idea, instantly reminded me of 'Lose It or Lose It' which is the same concept but for weight loss (loseitorloseit.com). Putting money on the line is always a great motivator. Whenever you get some completed projects it would be cool if there was a gallery to check them out.
The gallery ("Shipyard", anyone?) is a great idea (there were others here who suggested this too). We might be able to do it.
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#27Amazing concept, great name. It's the insurance model flipped upside down. Or just "Insurance from your own laziness".
Thank you! To us it's more like "extra kick to get over the hump".
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#28Starting is easy, shipping is hard. I have a folder on my computer with a number of unfinished/unshipped projects. We created Sink or Ship to address the problem of following though and shipping what you started. http://imgur.com/BdtwZ
Did you ship on time?
Sadly no, I had to adjust the ship time. bearwithclaws is now $5 richer. But we shipped!
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#29Nice idea. Similar to something I've considered recently: an email client concept that would charge postage for every message sent with proceeds going to charity. Might cut down on inbox overload.
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#30There's no way I'd pledge to pay a significant enough amount of money to motivate me to some random people who hacked together a fairly simple app.
On the other hand, I would consider pledging the money to a charity, and giving a small cut to service that facilitates it.