excluding Love, Politics, and other potential products
Subscription
- Manifold Gold
- monthly subscription plan
- payable in mana (plus USD as well?)
- Unlocks
- Loans
- Managrams
- API access?
- comes with some sort of UI flair
- VIP/supporter tier with 10x price, additional flare
- Price point: $10 - $25?
Advertising & promotion
- Market boosts
- improve targeting / display on the feed
- include in more places: Browse page, market page (in related markets)
- prompt users to create more boosts
- add simple boost notifications, display on Trades tab
- Dashboard boosting
- pay to promote your dashboard
- pay even more to get in on the homepage
- Actual Ads
- Pay to display ads of arbitrary content
- image, video? content
Fees / platform economics
- Reduce bonuses
- Bounty fee
- percentage fee on bounties (30%?)
- very natural place to charge
- still feels to buggy / under-designed to charge rn
- Transaction fees on trades
- Increase market creation fee
- also probably a bad idea…
- markets should be cheap to create + cost mana to promote
Mana purchasing
- Increase prominence of mana purchasing
- put in more places on bet panel, elsewhere
- send periodic notifications
- New user mana discount
- New users get 20% for their first purchase within x days
- mana auto-reload