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Oleksandr Gamaniuk

A marketplace for vibe-coded projects?

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I’ve built two marketplaces before:

  • One for chatbot templates in 2018 that was used by 700+ marketing agencies.

  • Another in 2020 for job seekers in the U.S., which reached 5.5M users.

So let’s suppose I have some experience. You can read about me on Bootstrappers, TechCrunch, Dev to.

Now I’m considering building a marketplace where creators can list their vibe-coded projects along with the code, a live demo link, etc. The idea is to target:

  1. Other creators who don’t want to start from scratch and would prefer a polished template.

  2. Businesses that don’t want to hire developers or build from scratch, but instead grab a ready project and adapt it to their needs.

  3. Developers/agencies who want access to a catalog of vibe-coded projects with distribution licenses so they can resell or customize them for clients. (This was actually the best performing business model when we sold chatbot templates to hundreds of agencies in 2017–2019.)

Does this make sense? Would anyone here be willing to list their projects and make $$ from it? Or anyone interested in having access to such projects for a fee?

Upvotes or downvotes (with comments) are welcome. They’ll help me figure out if this idea is worth pursuing.

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Sumit Datta

Businesses not wanting to start from scratch is awesome but I would then focus on great experience - using existing open source business apps and create a prompt based playbook on them. It makes adding features if the prompts have good guardrails. In the end, people want something solved for their workflow and unless that happens, everything is a template and business is stuck.

Steve Conrad

As a consumer of such services, I think this is a great idea! As I look to hire people for projects it's always a plus to leverage work they have already done (and pay them for using their work). Shorter time-to-market for me and my projects (customers) and good for the developer (get paid for leveraging what they have done). I've lost track of the time I've spent on Upwork and Freelancer looking for #2 and #3. I'll be your first customer.

Mark Watson

We vibe coded Aitbolt.ai (a dev tool for vibe coders, ha) and would like to be on it!