Show HN: Exploring the intersection of prediction markets and social media
thevidmarket.com
The idea is to explore whether an intersection of social media, popularity, and prediction markets can exist and what it can look like.
thevidmarket.com
Invokes several ideas: the Keynesian beauty contests and self-resolving prediction markets, and the Bayesian truth serum.
As a recommender system, I like the idea of a system where you gain some sort of credit (points, reputation, etc.) for upvoting something that eventually becomes popular before it becomes popular.
I see a huge variety of topics and languages. I think one problem is that most markets are going to have very little participation. Maybe starting with a filtered selection of already popular or trending-popular videos.