Turns out, some new enrollments topped up their accounts and dropped off before the final step that makes it show up on the home page, so now I know it's something, and something is worth doubling.
> existential threat to surveillance capitalism
Should I buy a gun? I'm an American.
No, that's unnecessary. Nobody will be taking you that seriously.
> some new enrollments topped up their accounts and dropped off before the final step that makes it show up on the home page
Did they actually put money in?
So, for a second experiment, I was actually running a stream for Emacs (yeah, yeah, I know, I know). They managed to raise all of $10 for themselves. The premise was to pay out a weekly prize for whoever developed something cool. Super simple.
There's so little data, but it very clearly, very, very clearly seems to say the enthusiasm is for PrizeForge to get good more than it was to use PrizeForge for something else.
And I'm going to keep expanding in various directions because there's no way I'm oriented yet, but it's not nothing. It's terrible UX, terrible everything, but just clearly enough on top of something.
> ...terrible UX, terrible everything...
I think I accidentally enrolled for emacs and can't unenroll on the site. I guess I'll have to finally start using emacs now