It’s 1st of Jan, and as with a fresh start, people are motivated to make money moves to set the right tone. Positivity FTW!
Even though I could have slept in, I woke up at my usual timing today so that I could spend some time on Seedly, a personal finance site. It’s a platform for students and young adults and those nearing retirement to raise their money concerns and get advice from fellow Singaporeans.
What’s interesting is how it incentivises discussion. When I make a post or a comment, I get 150 credits.
To prevent people from spamming and gaming the system, Seedly keeps the credits to a maximum of 5000 every month. In other words, I need only respond 34 times a month in order to get 5000 credits.
What does one do with the credits, I hear you ask? This time round, I was motivated to apply the low time preference principle and ‘work’ steadfastly for six months. This is because I was gunning for the $30 worth of NTUC FairPrice supermarket vouchers.
Yesterday, I had 29,350 credits. Hence, this morning, I answered five questions and laid bare my point of view.
It was a gratifying moment when I managed to redeem my credits for the coveted $30 vouchers!
$30 isn’t a lot, but I intend to use it to buy my Asahi beer as well as snacks to make my children happy. So, it isn’t quite nothing.
I feel thrilled, having completed the first day of the year with vouchers in my pocket. One thing’s for sure: I will continue to support Seedly.
You have dedication to do it for 6 months for your beer.
You must have a chart of things to do everyday to earn small rewards everywhere.
SN isnt your only place to go.
How is your blog doing?
And with this comment, I feel that you know me as well as my real-life friends who have known me for years haha.
It’s erratic. I earn anything from 1 cents to 11 cents every day. But I’m committed to doing it to withdraw $150 from Google Adsense just so that I can say been there done that
I remember doing the same thing.
Sometimes you have to play the long game.
How close is to 150$?
Still a ways to go?
I should reach $30 this month.
I frame it as a bucket list goal, so I’m okay playing the waiting game.
I think I’m just happy that I carve out a space for myself aside from my work n fatherhood
All I saw (and read) was this.... "I intend to use it to buy my Asahi beer as snacks to make my children happy" and I thought - That's a Father of the year, right there...lol
Good for you. Is there "stay humble - stack sats" as advice? Use that, and you will be a trillionaire in no time
I have been trying to get people there to use Cointiply and come to Stacker News. Without much success, I’m afraid haha.
Thanks for reading to the end and commenting!