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Life & fun · October 10, 2011

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Goal achievement just got easy with Dittit.com (feedback wanted)

Hi, we’re dittit.com, a startup that enables people to achieve any personal goal by automating accountability, incentives and disincentives to modify the economics of daily behavior. The way it works is you publicly declare your goal and get friends/family to sponsor you financially. You also commit to a weekly set of commitments to get to your goal. Then you submit proofs using our mobile app or any 3rd party tracking app (Runkeeper for example) which are certified by other members of the dittit community. When you miss a commitment we get your friends and family to help you out via Twitter…

Goal achievement just got easy with Dittit.com (feedback wanted) launched on October 10, 2011 with 6 votes, #95 of 292 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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