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Did you ship on time?
Sadly no, I had to adjust the ship time. bearwithclaws is now $5 richer. But we shipped!
Then it's less of a "we are going to love it so much every time you fail" feeling. More jovial and positive, less opportunist.
There'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.
The app doesn't work this way (pledge money). It's simply a tweet scheduler which charges $5 to make changes every time.
There'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.
Also, there is gym-pact.com, which disburses your money to others who do meet their workout requirements.
There'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.
Hey Tom! The app doesn't work this way (pledge money). It's simply a tweet scheduler which charges $5 to make changes every time.
I'm not sure $5 is enough motivation, and if it were significantly more I'd start to question why I was giving this money to the developers of this app, rather than someone more deserving, like the users who are missing out on using the product, or a charity.
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Hey Tom! The app doesn't work this way (pledge money). It's simply a tweet scheduler which charges $5 to make changes every time.
I understood that, maybe my terminology was wrong, but you effectively pledge to pay $5 every time your schedule slips. I'm not sure $5 is enough motivation, and if it were significantly more I'd start to question why I was giving this money to the developers of this app, rather than someone more deserving, like the users who are missing out on using the product, or a charity.
It does nothing towards improving core problems of software development lifecycle planning issues.
I would suggest reading a book like Peopleware, before embarking on public shame or penalties as solutions. These band-aids are almost always self-imposed, and they almost never work.
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Hey Tom! The app doesn't work this way (pledge money). It's simply a tweet scheduler which charges $5 to make changes every time.
I understood that, maybe my terminology was wrong, but you effectively pledge to pay $5 every time your schedule slips. I'm not sure $5 is enough motivation, and if it were significantly more I'd start to question why I was giving this money to the developers of this app, rather than someone more deserving, like the users who are missing out on using the product, or a charity.
- $5 is our first attempt on finding the right balance for most people where they would be motivated and wouldn't cheat.
- We definitely thought of giving the money to charity. But we would be more inclined to use the resource to do something really interesting (more or less along the lines with "giving it to someone more deserving"), hopefully to build up a "community of shippers" in long term.
This mentality will just encourage fire drills and burnout. It does nothing towards improving core problems of software development lifecycle planning issues. I would suggest reading a book like Peopleware, before embarking on public shame or penalties as solutions. These band-aids are almost always self-imposed, and they almost never work.
The truth is, we don't know yet. And we definitely didn't try to solve/improve software development lifecycle/plannings.
We built this for people like us: bunch of friends working on fun projects and trying to get it out of the door.