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In three months, will I think setting up this Manifold news reader was worth it?
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I made a website that pairs news stories with related Manifold markets, so you can read the news alongside what traders think might happen:

https://thedailyfold.net

It works, mostly. I was surprised that ChatGPT just sort of did this for me based on an exploratory question. I tweaked it a couple of times, but that's it. There are definitely things that are still janky and suboptimal, but I like it enough that I spent ten bucks on a URL.

Will I still think this was worth doing three months from now?

This resolves YES if, around January 20, 2027, I look at the project and feel glad I set it up. Things that would count toward that include:

  • I’m still using it regularly myself.

  • I’m still interested enough to try to make it better.

  • It has regular readership of more than 100 people a day.

  • Someone improves it, builds upon it, or steals the idea completely.

  • A couple of people tell me it’s a good idea, and I feel like it was worth putting out there.

These are examples, not a checklist. I don’t need all of them, and 100 daily readers is not a requirement. If nobody else reads it but I use it all the time, that could easily be a YES.

This resolves NO if, in three months, I’m not using it regularly and my general feeling is, “Why the hell did I spend ten bucks on a URL for that stupid site?”

Essentially, this is a vibes-based market on my future opinion of my own project. I’ll resolve it honestly, but you are betting on my subjective judgment.

I won't bet on this market.

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There was a somewhat similar project which, as far as I can tell, died: /patrik/which-features-should-i-implement-f

bought Ṁ500 YES

I'm glad I found it and will be visiting again. I think a large amount of us use manifold in conjunction with the news very much like this. There's a lot of room for growth and personalization so I would not be surprised at all if others steal/iterate on it.

Ok. Made some more changes to how it matches markets, and I think this last day has been showing much better articles and markets.

Ok. Today I messed with the matching a little bit more, pushed non matched stories to a manifold link to create a market, and fixed an issue where the site wouldn’t load.

bought Ṁ25 YES

Love the idea!

@JimD Thanks. If you have any suggestions let me know. Today I added non-binary markets, improved the matching a little bit, and tweaked the layout a little bit.