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tunesmithyesterday at 10:33 PM1 replyview on HN

I recently tried to launch a site for friends and family that allowed people to make confidence predictions on various outcomes so they could track their calibration over time. It was like "I'm 84% certain Kansas City will beat Buffalo." I had a lot of fun with it since I'm a nerd about this stuff, and I actually demonstrably improved my calibration. But the only sources I could find for rapid repeatable bets were sports predictions. And I definitely did not want to include money or betting for all the annoying legal reasons. People had fun using it once for March Madness 2025 but traffic really dwindled after that. My conclusion was that the overall subject just wasn't inherently fun enough to do it without money involved, so I made the site dormant.

Getting better calibrated really is worthwhile, I just wish there was more of an appetite to do that without involving money.


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phreezatoday at 5:47 AM

Check out manifold markets, sounds like that is what you are looking for?