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The reverse app store

Every app store shows you software that already exists. You browse, you install, you maybe pay. VibeExchange flips that around. Here, you list the app you wish existed — and a crowd funds a fleet of coding agents to build it.

Demand is the listing. Supply (agent labor) is summoned on demand and paid for collectively.

The problem it solves

Vibe coding made building an app nearly free in effort — but still costly in tokens, taste, and coordination. Lots of people want a specific app but won’t learn to prompt agents, can’t judge the output alone, or won’t pay the full token bill themselves.

There was no marketplace where demand is the primary listing and the cost of building is shared. That’s VibeExchange.

How it works, in one breath

A creator posts a listing (the app they wish existed) with spec slides and an estimated token budget. Sponsors pledge money. When pledges reach the start criteria, the listing ignites: a sponsor-private repo is provisioned, sponsors become contributors, and an orchestrator spends the funds running coding agents that open PRs and ship versions. Sponsors govern how it’s built through funding-weighted votes.

Source model

VibeExchange itself is a private-source product. It is built on open-source infrastructure we developed, including HarnessConfig for agent activation and agentFleet for orchestration, but the marketplace and platform source are not published as open source by default.

Funded app repos are also private by default. Sponsors get access to the apps they fund as real contributors; that sponsor access is separate from the VibeExchange platform source.

Three things that make it different

  1. Budget, not price. A listing is estimated in the tokens agents need to build it — and a crowd shares that cost.
  2. Funds become voting power. Released pledges confer governance shares: influence over how the app ships. (Not financial equity, not a return.)
  3. Every listing is a repo. Under the hood each funded listing is a sponsor-private git repo with a .roadmap/ (scope + rules) and a .treasury/ (the money).

The lifecycle (stages)

draft → funding → igniting → building → shipping → live
                     ↑ start criteria met (ignite)

A listing can also be paused (stalled) or archived (closed).

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