Manifold Markets

Unfortunately a left-leaning mod liquidated my position on a political market, due to a mistake they made where they gave people too much Sweepcash, but they left all other positions with this same situation active that had politics they agreed on. I would recommend Polymarket where markets are not being artificially manipulated based off mods’ political preference. Mods are all all over the place with their inconsistent moderation policy, the site is down or slows to a crawl constantly and is overal quite buggy. Dont waste your time.

The concept of the app is cool, and it’s fun for a while. But it’s really just the same handful of markets, and then a bunch of weird uninteresting ones that are basically like “what will I eat for lunch”. The app needs more interesting markets, until then it’s kind of annoying.

I had 9 markets (2 open) and the most recent update deleted them (shows my current number of questions at zero, and as far as I could see, the markets no longer exist.) The verification feature also does not work and errors out when I attempt to use it. Releasing a broken update like this is unacceptable for any company trying to pivot to working as a real money market. The error is: Error: timeout exceeded when trying to connect at Timeout._onTimeout (/usr/src/app/node_modules/pg-pool/index.js:200:27) at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:573:17) at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:514:7)

The layout is very unintuitive and far too busy to find things easily. It’s also quite buggy. Several times I have put time and energy into creating a question, only to have the question vanish into thin air, leaving me frustrated and not wanting to engage with this app.

This is solely a review of the app. I love the idea and check my predictions nearly as much as I check my stocks which is quite a bit. My only issue is as of late when I go to view my trades I am stuck at a load bar, and I can’t really see how my predictions are doing so it kind of ruins the whole point of the app. Hope they fix it soon

People will write vague polls and then (by opinion) end them one way or the other. Very frustrating when a poll is ended in a way that is completely different than what was written.

This is one of the best prediction markets out there and it’s completely free. Pretty easy UI that’s easy to navigate and a really nice and informative community.

First of all this app is really well made. It’s intuitive, responsive, and aesthetically excellent. I’m really glad that betting markets have gotten the development team and user base that they deserve. I hope it continues to grow!

I wish more apps were as well made as this one, everything feels so responsive, even on my relatively old iPhone mini. Manifold is a great place to get an idea of what folks think is going to happen.

Manifold itself is an awesome place in all regards, but right now this app is just a port of the mobile website. I think the UI could be a bit smoother and Manifold should have more app-specific functions.