Sander
@sanderfish
Same boat – freelancing 24-40 hours per week. But I just decided to keep it down to 24/week unless clients pay double so I can focus on my own projects more.
I would like to do the same, but unfortunately it's not that easy to find part time freelance projects.
I've said this before but now @swizec mentions it again, I want to recommend taking a look at how Memrise gamifies peoples activity/progress: www.dropbox.com/s/2uqlivr8ru8…
There's a leaderboard for week, month and all time. You see the top 9, and on the bottom (if you're not in top 9) you see your own score with your current rank.
Especially as the community grows, those 15 people with high streaks will be less interesting as they've been there all the time. I'd like to see people who have a super productive (start of the) week or month.
I like the idea of shields.
One thing I find difficult with this work-related streak is its relation to health. I think we can all agree that it's sometimes good to shut off for a day and just go out and enjoy nature, have a full day with family or similar. The idea of shields could fix that. It could also be a heart, that you can use to revive a streak.
On a sidenote – last week I accidentally typed /todo instead of /done and lost my streak. It was an unfinished ship, but had cost me an hour. Being able to repair mistakes like these would be nice, yet would create a loophole for "cheaters".
Edit: Interesting thought to reset the number each day. Or keep track of a total amount of days shipped?
I'm working on CheckoutPage (on top of Stripe) but that goes the other way around – easy option to get paid. There's also cash.me.
By your explanation I'd say "goals" is the right/most used word choice.