Earn real-life rewards for positive actions with DailyFeat’s foursquare integration
It turns out foursquare can be a force in promoting positive actions in our lives. They’ve previously announced badge partnerships with RunKeeper and HealthMonth, and earndit offers points for checking in at the gym. Now DailyFeats has added foursquare integration and awards points for all sorts of checkins. You can redeem those points for gift cards at popular stores.
DailyFeats is a site that lets you “check in” the positive actions in your life, from working out, to eating fruit, to doing activities with your kids. You get points for each “feat” you do, with higher point values awarded for more difficult and rare tasks like visiting the dentist or going on a hike. You’re awarded extra points if other users give “props” (does anyone actually say that anymore?) to your checkins. DailyFeats also allows you to schedule feats for future dates and invite friends to join you in accomplishing them.
By linking your account to foursquare (click “My Account” at the top of the page), your checkins are automatically tied to certain feats. A pool checkin, for instance, counts as a !goswimming feat and a yoga studio checkin counts as a !yoga feat. There are more than 60 links between foursquare categories and feats.
The points you accumulate can be redeemed for gift cards to places like Best Buy, Home Depot, Amazon.com, and Toys R Us. Most feats are worth between 2 and 6 points, and rewards start at 1000 points for a $10 gift card. If you’re diligent about checking in your feats, you could rack up that many points in a short period; if you rely solely on your foursquare checkins it could take a bit longer.
DailyFeats looks to be a fun, social way to encourage positive activities and reward users in ways they can actually use. Their foursquare integration makes it easy to accumulate points just be doing your normal activities.
What do you think of DailyFeats? Is this a good way to encourage positive actions?
I think the Web is a battlefield, littered with the corpses of “points” websites that promised users something-for-nothing. I’m going to need somebody at DailyFeats to explain why they’re different before I can even try to get excited about them.
Hi Michael–
Very true. So why are we different?
We’re different because we don’t offer something-for-nothing. You earn points at DailyFeats for doing actions that actually matter, for yourself and your community; the points and rewards are a way to help motivate that, but the real goal of the system is for you to live better. Believe me, if you’re just trying to get free stuff on the Internet, there are *much* easier ways to do that.
So will you give DailyFeats a try?
All of those other sites at least gave points for veriable online activities like making a purchase or completing a quiz. You’re awarding points based on completely self-reported activity. The “difference” is that your system is easier to manipulate.
This would be great in my personal circumstances as HealthMonth is.
It would be even greater if it actually linked to my foursquare account instead of giving me a blank white page though…
Tried Firefox, IE and Chrome and all the same. I get to allow them to have access to my account and then nothing.
Not the best first impression
I got the same problem
We’ll give a reminder in the Foursquare podcast next week to check again to see if the service is working yet.
Sorry about that! We’re getting some flaky responses from Foursquare’s servers, so some new users are having trouble linking their accounts. (Poor timing much?) It’s working intermittently, so keep trying.
(Oh, and we’re big fans of HealthMonth. Good reference!)
Forget it!
Still can’t connect my foursquare account.
I read on the front page “Companies all over the world are interested in being associated with the positive actions you do”
‘Cool!’ I thought, I can play along and earn stuff! Then I go to the rewards page to see what there is and then get told ‘Only residents of the United States or Canada can redeem these rewards right now.’
Misleading much?
Sorry about that — we’ve removed the language about “all over the world,” which does create that expectation. But you should feel free to use DailyFeats anyway: our rewards are always expanding and growing. Soon there will be much more than a few gift cards…
Hi Markus!
Thanks for commenting, I wasn’t expecting that!
In my frustration I must admit I was ready to close my account but now I’ve got over it I’ll still be trying Dailyfeats, I DO think it’s a great idea and will really help to improve my health (I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and hopefully by the time worldwide rewards become available (please say they will!) I’ll have racked up a ton of points to spend, woo!
And my account is now linked!
Anyway, thanks for bearing with us through this morning’s Foursquare glitches, Sassy! Glad to hear it’s now working for you; it might still be a little intermittent until Foursquare’s API servers come fully alive, but it looks like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
Worldwide monetary rewards are definitely coming, although in honesty it’ll probably be a while before they’re available; in the shorter term, you’ll be able to redeem social rewards pretty soon. (If you have ideas about what kind of social rewards you might like, please let us know! We’re trying to do stuff that’s cooler than just a badge.)
I’d love to try this but they need to fix the foursquare linking problem. I’ve tried it a ton of different times with different browsers even but still no luck.
Yeah I’m having trouble linking as well. Which sucks because I’m really excited about this. Couldn’t find a place on dailyfeats where I could actually report the problem.
To c4jones2 and Van — our apologies. It looks like Foursquare’s servers picked this morning to give us a good shakedown. Account-linking seems to be working more reliably now, although it can be slow and wacky; please feel free to try it again. Hope you enjoy DailyFeats!
I’ve still had no luck in linking
. Tried yesterday throughout the day. Even late at night because I thought maybe less people would be on either site.
How odd — it seems to be working for most users at this point. Can you describe the problem? (Email me directly at info – at – dailyfeats.com.)
I’ve got exactly the same problem and I’ve attempted to connect numerous times. I get as far as set-up, then receive the message ‘Please wait. Connecting accounts…’ and there it sticks!
Suddenly it connected!
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Mine is no longer working with my 4sq account