To the investors of Manifold Markets:

Top asks

• Bookkeeping/tax prep recommendations. We’re about to go with Pilot, unless we hear of something better.
• Intros or advice on doing SEO as a web platform.
• Bet on our markets to help us prioritize what to work on.

Key developments

• Metrics

  

  

• SEO: both search volume and site coverage are trending up

  

• Stripe has restored our charity program after initially telling us to shut it down.

• Launched Manifund, a platform for trading real-money impact certs (announcement in ACX + update)

• SF office: 425 Divisadero St #300. All 3 cofounders + 2 FTEs are now working from the office in person. (Feel free to stop by and say hi!)

• Hosted Onsite: San Francisco (February 19 to 28), Manifold party, EAG hackathon in SF; Eth Denver meetup

• New features: dark mode, Discord bot prototype, feed view, landing page redesign, simplified onboarding flow, new market page layout with recommendations on sidebar, user calibration graphs, ability to moderate comments, better performance / continued migration to Supabase

• Buzz: Neolibs podcast, CSPI adds $5k in prizes, Eliezer gets 72k views for a market

• In the pipeline: Private Groups / Leagues, Discord Bot, Improved feed (algo + UI), True Certs, In-House Ads

Quick thoughts

• Our growth strategy has been to focus on audiences like gamers and fans of streamers that are adjacent to but distinct from our current userbase. This month we’ll be doing more aggressive guerrilla outreach to these groups on TikTok and Reddit. I’m also excited to start promoting our Discord bot, which should reach the same audiences but in a completely orthogonal direction. The hope is that the bot can get entire communities to sign up en masse.