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by tighter_wires 2453 days ago
please tell me you called your app "GoalTender", if it involves payouts for social goals.
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Not bad, except the thesis involved social capital, not actual cash.

The actual app was “mafia” branded, playing off of Mafia Wars which was big at the time. Your friends on the app would motivate you with virtual gifts and (naturally) virtual threats, like posting a dead fish on your wall.