Updates

What got done

What next?

[J] James

• Synced with Aaron on an Aella partnership
  • They are adopting a wait-and-see approach to our app, and might try their own attempt if ours stagnates.
  • They are tentatively on board to do an affiliate link deal! (we pay per profile created from people using a link Aella shares)
• Fix an exploit where loans were paying out for resolved answers
• love
  • Lots of fixes on Friday
  • Working with Fiona to do a IRL launch party
  • Sending people to interview to Will, TIME reporter

James

• Call with Shreeda building another dating app

[s] Stephen

• DEBATECON 4
• investigate email deliverability
• poasting

Stephen

• marketing stuff
• server analytics

[i] Ian

• multi positions tweaks
• fix subsidies & unique trader bonuses
• add emails on new matches
• wip: add fromLove flag to user & joined the chat messages

Ian

• finish flag
• fix users not caching on /messages
• subtly highlight messages on new general chats

[c] Sinclair

• love copy on race and gender
• love referrals
• today: triaged a bunch of linear tickets

Sinclair

• test referral code
• text card for dashboards (Nathan requested)
• get started on love custom questions?

[D] David

• I was quite sick over the weekend so didn’t get much done, feeling mostly better today

David

• Manifold love newsletter
• push track record page
• community + trustworthyish + guidelines backlog stuff

[iw] Inga

• added average to ratings
• fixed some location bugs
• thinking about questions flow

Inga

• manifold love questions flow

[t] Tod

• contacted some creators
• manifold love search ad
• new ads

Tod

• follow up and contact more people
• new ads

Demos

Blockers

• What’s slowing you down today?
• Open Github PRs

Discussion

• [s] read about my experience at DEBATECON 4
  • [d, c] 💯
  • [c] pretty awesome result for something so technically simple
  • [J] How was the question / resolution criteria? Wouldn’t a simple poll of the audience on who won after be better?
    • [s] I thought it actually worked pretty well for people who bothered to understand the format.
      • Nearly all markets would not have been competitive otherwise
• [s] retro: trader & subsidy bonuses
  • this was a highly foreseeable problem!
  • [i] @David Chee did you test the subsidization parameter? It wasn’t set on lots of markets, so was equivalent to undefined, aka false. If you did test, then was it just a script that didn’t properly backfill all the contracts?
    • [d] tbh I didn’t test, I naively thought the changes I made to subsidisation were extremely minimal since I was under the impression I was essentially just changing the name of the function. I was more caught up with the unranked stuff which wasn’t working (when all I actually had to do was deploy it lol)
    • [i] for future ref testing is v important! Especially when you’re new to programming, you have to test everything.
      • [d] haha makes sense, whoops
    • [d] so ultimately was the problem probably something like if the nonpredictive parameter was undefined then by default it was considered “false”. Which meant it worked fine. But, when I created the new parameter a lot of them were still undefined and by default undefined was set to false (which is wrong because subsidisation needs to be set to true)?
  • [A] What was the issue:
  • [A] What was the timeline on this? (times in PT)
  • Suggestions for future improvement: