<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>majjha.fun — the room, in writing</title><description>Notes from the room — how a call works, what calibration means, and why being right out loud is the whole game.</description><link>https://majjha.fun/blog</link><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://majjha.fun/blog/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Being early, and being right</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/being-early-and-being-right</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/being-early-and-being-right</guid><description>Being early and being right are two different skills. Why a call made before the room agrees is its own feat — and how your record tells them apart.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who actually makes money on a prediction market?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/who-makes-money-on-prediction-markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/who-makes-money-on-prediction-markets</guid><description>The easiest money online — that&apos;s the pitch. The research says otherwise: a tiny few take most of it. Here&apos;s who really wins.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The questions we won&apos;t list</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-we-wont-list</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-we-wont-list</guid><description>The questions majjha won&apos;t list: nothing hateful, nothing about private people, nothing that can&apos;t settle cleanly. Why saying no is part of the product.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How do prediction markets work? (one question, start to finish)</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/how-do-prediction-markets-work</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/how-do-prediction-markets-work</guid><description>How prediction markets work, told through one question&apos;s life: it opens, a price forms, news moves it, the settle date arrives — and the record remembers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Questions, not teams</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/questions-not-teams</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/questions-not-teams</guid><description>Sports forecasting has a calibration trap: the team you love. How a prediction market for sports questions separates a real read from loyalty wearing a number.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kalshi vs. Polymarket — compared by the one with no money in it</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/kalshi-vs-polymarket</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/kalshi-vs-polymarket</guid><description>Kalshi vs Polymarket, compared honestly: dollars under a US regulator, or crypto-settled depth — how to pick, and where the no-money version lives.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A prediction market with no money in it — what changes?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/prediction-market-with-no-money</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/prediction-market-with-no-money</guid><description>A play-money prediction market is what&apos;s left when the money goes. An honest inventory: the number, the record, and the skill survive — the fear leaves.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How to sharpen your read</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/how-to-sharpen-your-read</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/how-to-sharpen-your-read</guid><description>Three habits that actually sharpen your read: keep score honestly, sit with the misses, and size your sureness. The practice, not the shortcut.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The wisdom of crowds (and what a price does with it)</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/wisdom-of-crowds</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/wisdom-of-crowds</guid><description>The wisdom of crowds, plainly: why many independent guesses beat almost any single guesser, when crowds go wrong, and how a market price sharpens the trick.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a Brier score?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/brier-score</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/brier-score</guid><description>A Brier score in plain numbers: the gap between how sure you were and what happened, squared — 0 is perfect, 0.25 is coin-toss territory, lower is better.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How the room talks</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/how-the-room-talks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/how-the-room-talks</guid><description>Every place people love grows its own way of talking. A warm tour of how the room talks on majjha — the middle, call it, called it, a tough read.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why the middle moves</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/why-the-middle-moves</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/why-the-middle-moves</guid><description>Why a prediction market price moves: someone reads the news faster than the room and calls it. A moving middle is the room updating in public.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What we do with your email</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-your-email-buys</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-your-email-buys</guid><description>What majjha does with your email: one note when the room opens, then silence. No drip campaign, no digest, no selling it, and leaving is one click.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How a question settles</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/how-a-question-settles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/how-a-question-settles</guid><description>How a question settles on majjha: it opens with a date printed on it, the room argues, the day arrives, the named source answers, and every record updates.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a &apos;tough read&apos;?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-tough-read</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-tough-read</guid><description>A &apos;tough read&apos; is majjha&apos;s name for a call that didn&apos;t land — kind on purpose, honest on the record. What the phrase means and why the room says it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a forecasting game?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-forecasting-game</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-forecasting-game</guid><description>What is a prediction game? Call real questions before the world answers, scored on being right. How the forecasting game works, and the number a room makes.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a founding number?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-founding-number</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-founding-number</guid><description>A founding number marks how early you claimed your handle on majjha — fifth to claim is founding #5, forever. What it is, and what it will never turn into.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why do the two sides always total 100?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/why-do-prices-total-100</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/why-do-prices-total-100</guid><description>Why prediction market prices sum to 100: Yes and No are one opinion written twice — 67 on Yes leaves exactly 33 for No, or the room disagrees with itself.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What does 67¢ mean?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-does-67-mean</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-does-67-mean</guid><description>How to read a prediction market price: 67¢ means the room, weighed together, is 67-out-of-100 sure of Yes — a reading of confidence, not a menu.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your first call, start to finish</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/your-first-call</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/your-first-call</guid><description>Your first call on majjha, start to finish: pick a question, read the middle, choose your side and Dots, preview the Call Ticket, lock it in, and wait.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The actual map of prediction markets (and where we fit)</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/best-play-money-prediction-markets</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/best-play-money-prediction-markets</guid><description>Best prediction markets, honestly compared: real-money venues like Polymarket and Kalshi, play-money rooms like Manifold and majjha — and how to pick yours.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Prediction market vs. betting — what&apos;s actually different?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/prediction-market-vs-betting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/prediction-market-vs-betting</guid><description>Prediction market vs. betting, answered straight: who writes the number, what it&apos;s for, where the two honestly blur — and what changes when the money leaves.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a prediction market? (in plain English)</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-prediction-market</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-prediction-market</guid><description>What is a prediction market? A plain answer — the live number a disagreeing crowd makes, how it settles, and where a prediction market with no money fits.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is play-money?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-play-money</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-play-money</guid><description>What play-money means: money shaped for keeping score and worth nothing on purpose — free, no card, no money in or out. The score is the point.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a Call Ticket?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-call-ticket</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-call-ticket</guid><description>A Call Ticket is the receipt of a call — your side, your Dots, the price you locked in. What the ticket shows, and what happens when the question settles.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What does &apos;settle&apos; mean?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-does-settle-mean</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-does-settle-mean</guid><description>How prediction questions settle on majjha: the real world hands over its answer on a named date, from the source the question names. Tickets settle with it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:04:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is the board?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-the-board</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-the-board</guid><description>majjha&apos;s board ranks how well you read, not how many Dots you hold. How the leaderboard rank works, why it can&apos;t be bought, and what oracle means at the top.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a room?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-room</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-room</guid><description>A room is where one question lives on majjha — the date it settles, the people calling sides, and the middle resting between them. The tour, in a minute.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a streak?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-streak</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-streak</guid><description>A streak is a run of calls that landed, one after another — honest momentum, fun to hold. What a streak means on majjha, and why the record outranks it.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is your record?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-your-record</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-your-record</guid><description>Your record is the running account of every call you&apos;ve made and how it landed — a track record for forecasting, kept honest. What it holds and why it counts.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The questions nobody else lists</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/the-questions-nobody-else-lists</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/the-questions-nobody-else-lists</guid><description>The big markets all blur into one front page. The questions your group chat argues about aren&apos;t on it. We&apos;re building the room for the rest.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is &apos;the middle&apos;?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-the-middle</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-the-middle</guid><description>The number in the middle of a majjha market is the live price a whole room lands on — nobody sets it. What the middle is, in a minute.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:12:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is a call?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-call</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-a-call</guid><description>A call is you saying which way a real question lands — Yes or No, with Dots behind it. What a call is, and what makes it different from a spin.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:09:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What are Dots?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-are-dots</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-are-dots</guid><description>Dots are majjha&apos;s play-money — free, no cash value, never convertible. What they&apos;re for (keeping score) and what they&apos;re firmly not (money).</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:06:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What is calibration?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-calibration</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-is-calibration</guid><description>Calibration is matching how sure you feel to how often you&apos;re right — the real skill majjha rewards. What it means, and why it isn&apos;t luck.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What does &apos;oracle&apos; mean here?</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-does-oracle-mean</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-does-oracle-mean</guid><description>On majjha, &apos;oracle&apos; is the top player rank — a long record of good reads, not a machine that sees the future. What the word means here.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Claim your handle</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/claim-your-handle</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/claim-your-handle</guid><description>Every waitlist promises you something. Ours is a name and a number — nothing else, on purpose. Why the two smallest things here are the ones worth having.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What the middle means</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-the-middle-means</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-the-middle-means</guid><description>The number in the middle of a prediction market isn&apos;t a price someone set for you — it&apos;s the most honest thing a whole room can make together.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>It&apos;s a call, not a casino</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/its-a-call-not-a-casino</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/its-a-call-not-a-casino</guid><description>A moving number feels like a wheel you spin, then hope. It isn&apos;t. Here&apos;s what makes a call on a play-money prediction market different from a flip.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What we&apos;re building, and what we&apos;re not</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/what-were-building-and-what-were-not</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/what-were-building-and-what-were-not</guid><description>Straight talk: majjha is a play-money prediction market. The payoff is being right in public — a record, not money.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How a price shows up when the room is new</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/how-a-price-shows-up-when-the-room-is-new</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/how-a-price-shows-up-when-the-room-is-new</guid><description>You&apos;re first into a brand-new room — so who takes the other side of your call? Where a starting price comes from, and why it&apos;s not against you.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A good read today, a sharper one tomorrow</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/a-good-read-today-a-sharper-one-tomorrow</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/a-good-read-today-a-sharper-one-tomorrow</guid><description>Is being right just luck — or a skill you can build? It has a name: calibration. How keeping score closes the gap and sharpens your read.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Meet Pip</title><link>https://majjha.fun/blog/meet-pip</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://majjha.fun/blog/meet-pip</guid><description>The little price-dot has a name, a mood or two, and — as of now — a voice. A warm hello to the friendliest face on the app.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>