[nemo1618]

For all the people asking how this differs from Beeminder: my first reaction was "finally, a version of Beeminder that lets me pay $1000!"

Beeminder is obviously amazing, but it really "loses its sting" when you can't set a penalty higher than $25 (give or take -- I don't know what the current limit is).

[BeetleB]

> Beeminder is obviously amazing, but it really "loses its sting" when you can't set a penalty higher than $25 (give or take -- I don't know what the current limit is).

Beeminder's model is a bit different, in that the payment amount keeps going up if you keep falling off track. The current upper amount you can pay is $7290 (as in once you hit $7290, it will keep charging you that amount).

[1123581321]

Even better, you can pay Beeminder money to jump to the big penalties right away. Very clever upsell since anyone who needs to lose thousands to be motivated won’t miss a fraction of that. :)

[khromem]

Exactly! I have used beeminder and stickk. But there were a few things that bugged me about them.

1) Theres no option to have a referee that isn't friends or family

2) Its automated, and no human actually checks up to see if you are staying on track.

3) You can't really set huge stakes

[BeetleB]

> Theres no option to have a referee that isn't friends or family

Has stickk changed? When it was new you could set anyone to be your referee.

> Its automated, and no human actually checks up to see if you are staying on track.

With stickk, isn't the human referee the one who checks up on your progress?