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by toomasb 3163 days ago
Currently not much, that will be one of the challenges. Later on – gamification, how well are you at predicting upcoming trends in certain cities/categories.
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Yeah, that would be my first thought as well. It seems like a challenge to attach users to something like this when it exists outside of an application they already use (eg. Facebook et al). I would be interested in an update down the line to see if you are able to capture regular usage and how you did it.
Would over-incentivising lead to more scatter-gun contribution and make the real trends hard to surface?
You'd probably have to limit the allowed number of "guesses" per day/week. But even then there's a risk of people trying to game the system (creating multiple accounts etc)