Integrate with Foursquare (or other Geolocation apps)
For people who already use Foursquare, this would make Beeminder wholly subsume the functionality of GymPact. It could also support more general goals like "socialize more".
Personally, I'd be more excited about Placeme or Geoloqi integration (or maybe Google Latitude or something could do this too) where you don't have to explicitly check in like on Foursquare.
Admindreeves
(Cofounder, Beeminder)
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We now have this, thanks to Zapier! http://zpr.io/qqUK (Let us know if there’s any way in which this falls short of a Foursquare/Swarm-specific integration or any ways that it’s confusing to set up.)
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Admindreeves
(Cofounder, Beeminder)
commented
@Anonymous, see this forum thread for ideas or to ask more questions: http://forum.beeminder.com/t/geofencing-location-based-goals/416
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Anonymous
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No, but will try again. Do you know of a zapier app that can integrate with beeminder to acheive the same result? Also and related: is there a method for arriving at a certain place in time?
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Admindreeves
(Cofounder, Beeminder)
commented
Hey Anonymous, I think you should be able to add a filter for the name of the venue. Did you see that option?
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Anonymous
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hi, I was trying to use this to force myself to go to library at a certain time to study, but foursquare does not seem to be made for this kind of function.
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Michael
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I desperately need this to force me to study outside of home.
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Fredrik
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I agree. Geolocation seems like a big one that is missing. I'm currently a gympact user and would be happy to leave it to have everything under one roof. Plus, I just like you guys more :)
I could see other use cases too. While the obvious one would be gym attendance, a student could set it for the library. You could set it for the park so you make time to take your kids. You could set it for a networking meetup that you're really tempted to skip out on.
One thing to note is that gym attendance is an easy fit with the current model: you are likely to pick a certain number of times per week you want to attend. That number is likely to be stable. The location is likely to largely be the same (though maybe there are 2 or 3 places you work out).
With some of the other "get out of the office/house" use cases, the target locations are likely to be very different and vary greatly in desired frequency. I would arguably find this feature even more valuable, but it seems like a lot more work to implement.