What do/would you want to use private groups for?

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Ian

private groups would only include private markets (should we also allow public ones?)
bets, markets, comments would be hidden from api and website unless you are in the group.
Group would have admins list that could invite members
[J] This sounds basically right!
- There are other ways to do this but I don’t think we want those.
  - E.g. Custom currency is hard to do and doesn’t tie in well with the rest of our product.
- We could start with only private markets, and consider allowing public markets in private groups later
[J] Technically
- We should consider using server side rendering to authenticate on the server for these private groups and markets. This is an easy way to gate the content.
  - E.g. see profile.tsx
- We can just exclude private groups / markets / bets / comments from the API altogether
- The user page would have to filter out private info
- What’s stopping someone with the firebase client from fetching all the private markets / bets / etc?
  - I guess we need to make firestore.rules limit read and write access to members of the private group. You can create a little function in firestore.rules that does a query to see if the authenticated user id is in the list of members of the group.
Ronald Klingebiel wants to not have other bettors besides his students, b/c fake accounts can be used to transfer profits and mess up the leaderboard
Klingebiel wants to see each student’s performance per market. Is using the API to get this info.
Torren’s feedback, using prediction markets for a private party
Keri’s feedback from same party
Rick Gerkin [email protected]
- Emailed about it. Maybe interested