I stopped using iDoneThis because I was doing it in a vacuum. It would be great to get other people involved, but no one in my office was interested. There's also the issue of the founder's history, which seems to be marred a bit.
I'm sorry to hear you stopped using iDT. We've heard this same feedback a few times now and we're still trying to figure out how to make it easier for people in your position to get the team interested. Do you have any insight as to why people weren't interested?
I'm one of two co-founders of iDoneThis, the other guy is smalter, not Zach. We tried out doing a promotion with awesomeness reminders for a while. The story of that promotion is the parent to that comment you linked to.
Can you clarify how Zach's name got dragged into this then?
I think the other thought would be that I would like to run my own idonethis server, or have some means of capturing the data in a usable format for myself, the way gmail allows you to get your mail for keeps and delete your account. I felt like I didn't have control, and, with the Zach bit, I felt that whomever did have control, may not be reliable.
Please contact me: my.username@gmail.com and I would be happy to reconsider.
I don't have anything to do with anybody or anything really, but I think he's saying Zach is NOT a cofounder of iDoneThis. He's the founder of AwesomeReminders, who iDoneThis teamed up with for a promotion a few months ago. Otherwise, nothing to do with iDT and should probably not be a factor in using their service.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3886171
but the idea is incredibly provocative.