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0 pointstlrobinson13y ago0 comments

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.

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bearwithclaws13y ago

You have a point.

- $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.

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0 pointstlrobinson13y ago0 comments

I understood that, maybe my terminology was wrong, but you effectively pledge to pay $5 every time your schedule slips.

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bearwithclaws13y ago

You have a point.

- $5 is our first attempt on finding the right balance for most people where they would be motivated and wouldn't cheat.

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