Testing content syndication and user commissions on Thubutu. The card below isn't a screenshot. It's a live dare from Thubutu, the peer-to-peer dare/bets app I've been building, running right here on my blog post as if it pays rent.
Thubutu's whole idea fits in its tagline, Acha maneno, tia pesa! Roughly: stop talking, put your money where your mouth is instead. Someone makes a dare, people back a side with real money, and Thubutu settles who won.
This one asks whether Bitcoin dips below $78,000 by 20 November. The stakes and the sides are the real figures, and joining takes you straight to the dare on Thubutu. When joining closes, the card says so, and once the result is in, it shows which side won.
That's what's being tested: a dare doesn't have to stay inside Thubutu. Any public dare can be lifted out and dropped into someone else's website, blog or app, and it keeps working there, with live numbers, a join button and the result when it lands. This blog post is the first guinea pig.
Doing it takes about a minute. Inside Thubutu, open your invite people page, pick a public dare and the card's language, copy the one line of code it gives you and paste it into your page. No developer, no API key, nothing to maintain.
If you run a site, a page or an app whose audience has opinions, here's what it gets you:
- Your readers stop arguing in the comments and put money behind it instead.
- The card keeps itself current. The figures are fresh every time someone opens the page, and the result shows up once it's settled.
- People come back to see how it ended, which is the kind of return visit most sites pay for.
- Anyone who signs up through your card counts as your invite, and you get a share of Thubutu's fee on their winnings.
A few places I can see it working:
- A football blog, with tonight's derby dare sitting under the match preview.
- A radio show or podcast, so the caller who swears Simba will win can back it up.
- A news site's election explainer, for the readers who've already called it.
- A fan club or community page, finally settling the group chat's oldest argument.
- A sports app's match screen, right next to the lineups.
- Any scenario where people tend to pick sides and argue about it.
And if you want more than a card, Thubutu's developer guide covers the API for building your own.