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Why are you using WIP? (Sunday random thoughts)
Well, this is a question I've been thinking for the past days. I'm a pro member and I pay for the subscription every month and it's funny because my answer until now has been: For my own accountability, I feel FOMO if I lose my streak and also it helps me with the impostor syndrome because I repeat to myself: I have work for it everyday...
But honestly I'd like to know more about your motivations? Also if it works, maybe we could motivate each other haha sometimes social validation and/or social motivation is very helpful.
But honestly I'd like to know more about your motivations? Also if it works, maybe we could motivate each other haha sometimes social validation and/or social motivation is very helpful.
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I like the dopamine hit of saying a thing was done and maybe adding a picture
Feels different in a place other people can see than just privately crossing it out of my todo list
@fridaruh I like the "WIP Wrapped" - I see you don't have one from last year. So by adding "dones" you are able to get a recap of it all. For example (and I've primarily focused on having our first baby, working on anti-digital piracy SaaS, and posting food pictures wip.co/@mb_sumner/wrapped
Accountability for myself. I do at least one small thing which keeps the momentum going.
Feels good when people like (and/or comment) on things that I got done vs. just congratulating myself like some kind of antisocial weirdo
That and streaks trick all of our brains into posting something every day which increases engagement for this site which I'm sure marc is a fan of and otherwise serves no useful purpose for me, but feels nice to increase the streak 😂
I am just curious to know what members of WIP are thinking, how they are working, that kind of stuff. Personally I have zero need to follow a streak or to share my progress with others, so I am quite opposite in that way, but that's part of the interest. Maybe I want to understand what I don't understand.
I want to be part of a community of builders and want to keep myself accountable
To be honest I have a love-hate relationship with the streaks but I noticed that it pushes me to work on the days where I don't feel like working.
Trick is to not look and be bothered about the streaks leaderboard. Compete with yourself.
WIP is where I started building my side projects so I have a special place for WIP.
Inspired by seeing others making money, these days I am trying to build a business instead of limiting to just a bunch of fun side projects.
I want to start my indie hacking habit