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I'm curious how people are using or want to use the Manifold API. Will people provide at least 15 distinct ideas?
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Please share what you're using the API for. Or how you'd like to do so in theory, even if you aren't actually doing it yet. If at least 15 relatively different ideas are presented, this resolves YES.

You don't have to share any secret details that other people could replicate to take away your edge in a market, like exactly how your bot chooses to bet. I'm just curious about the broad strokes. I want to hear about your projects!

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Alright, fair enough.

Automated sockpuppet (Wiggleman)

Cause a market to close at a random time

Embed tool to embed someone's Manifold Profile/Stats into a website

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Bet on the Speaker market without dealing with all the lag

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Create a page that is literally just all my open limit orders, arranged in a way that makes sense to me, that I like better than the Profile -> Limit Orders listing method

predictedYES

Finding out what a users's best and worst individual bets have been, rather than just their best and worst profit markets

predictedYES

Using Bet History of all bets to produce neat graphs of a market's trends, different from the built-in ones on Manifold

predictedYES

Create a custom Embed platform so people can embed Manifold markets in their own websites with a custom look/feel instead of a default

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Get some limited information about Profit the other users currently have in multiple choice markets, which is otherwise invisible from the UI

Build a price-watch system to just notify you when a market moves more than X amount

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Arbitrage bots between pairs of related Manifold questions

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Cause 1 market to close as soon as a different, related market closes.

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Building an alternative Search frontend

Creating markets on an automated schedule

Make bets of fractional amounts of mana, like buying 3.5 mana of some option (minimum is 1 though, sometimes I wish I could buy less than 1).

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Calculate statistics that are not available in the UI, like ROI per Topic, etc.

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Build a portfolio management user interface

Build a live betting user interface

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@Eliza What would such a betting interface provide that the current native UI doesn't?

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@IsaacKing

Quick list off the top of my head:

- Pre-set immediate fire sale buttons, immediate large bet, etc.
- On MC markets, quickbet buttons for all options
- MC Position tracking so you can follow how other users' positions are sitting
- Liquidity figures visible at all times (profit off of an X-size bet right now, in either direction)
- Bet-to-percent fast buttons (makes limit order of X size for Y%, probably immediate-or-cancel)
- Multiple related live markets on screen at the same time or fast-switching of some sort
- Possibly keyboard shortcuts

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@Eliza Hmm, seems unlikely to be used given the API's current slowness. I love the idea though.

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Theta decay management

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Could be very useful to update descriptions on markets to fill in dynamic data that updates on a regular schedule.

See details of market status that are not visible on the market page in the UI

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@Eliza Like what? What details might people care about that aren't visible?