Public launch

Beeminder's origin story: In 2005 when I was scrambling to get my PhD thesis written and Bee Soule, who I had recently met and, obviously, fallen head-over-heels for, concocted what she dubbed the Voluntary Harassment Program to keep me churning out chapters. That was a smashing success and we continued to experiment on ourselves with crazy incentive schemes and productivity hacks until 2008 when we started getting friends and family in on the fun, with what we called Kibotzer -- the kibitzing robot -- which was an early incarnation of Beeminder...