Lose It or Lose It
Lose It or Lose It was a site where you would lose weight or lose your money. You would choose a weekly goal of 1, 2, or 3# a week for ten weeks. Each week you'd weigh in by submitting a picture of your feet on the scale. If you made your goal, you'd get your money back, if you didn't, we'd keep your money.
I created it because I was tired of being overweight and not getting anywhere whenever I tried to lose weight. I realized the downside to failing was just being the same as I always was, but I needed to be WORSE off if I failed to get anywhere.
Current me wants to lose weight, so current me puts up a bunch of money and future me suffers if they don't make their goals.
Through it I lost over 80#, mostly because I needed to prove it worked. But that's still a win in my mind.
The site had customers, and we made money, but not enough to keep it around so I eventually shut it down. However, that freed up time for me to create Dead Man's Snitch a few months later, which I sold for enough to pay off all my student loans, so win?
