05/25

• Biggest sources of revenue per day. About ~$105
  • Mana sales: $45-$90
    • Counting the fees on the lower amounts of mana and 5% of the total on withdraw.
  • Boosts: $20-$50
    • Surprisingly large
    • [JF] Some of this is from the Manifold Politics account
      • [s] I think most of this is House-connected accts
  • Trade fees $5-$10
    • I nerfed these by giving all the fees to the creator until they reach M1000 earned.

I think we’ll be able to scale up deposits and bet amounts once people are able to earn cash prizes. That will directly increase mana sales, and indirectly increase trade fees by even more (because more bets will happen after the creator has gotten back 1000). I’m not sure how boosts will scale.

• Biggest expenses per day. About ~$430
  • Streak bonus: $200-$250
  • Creator program: $115 (at $3500 / 30)
  • Sign up bonus $50
  • Referral $20
  • Markets created quest $15

It’s worrying that expenses are so much higher, at about 4x. Although I’m hopeful that volume per person will grow a lot soon which will make expenses lower by comparison.

We can also consider dropping expenses like the creator program or decreasing the streak bonus if we don’t think we are getting bang for our buck.