VibeExchange — the marketplace
Listings, funding, pledges, sponsor cap tables, governance, and the public Exchange. The demand-side front door.
★ THE WHOLE LOOP
From a wish to a shipped app
VibeExchange turns demand into software. A listing starts as a wish and ends as a governed, agent-built app — with the people who funded it steering every step.
01 Design A creator writes a listing: the wish, spec slides, screens, and acceptance criteria. Instead of a price, an estimated token budget to build it with agents.
02 Publish The creator sets a funding goal and a start criteria (the ignite threshold), can self-pledge, and can offer a match like 'I'll match the first $500'.
03 Back Sponsors pledge. Pledges can be plain, matched, or conditional ('release this $500 only when feature X merges'). Funds become voting power — like shares.
04 Ignite When the start criteria is met, VibeExchange provisions a private repo, seeds .roadmap/ and .treasury/, and adds every sponsor as a contributor.
05 Build An agent orchestrator spends committed funds running coding agents (Claude, Codex). They open PRs, cut versions, and ship enhancements; spend is logged per run.
06 Govern Sponsors submit issues and PRs and vote. Scope changes and governed merges need a funding-weighted majority within a timeline, enforced via PR approval.
07 Release conditions Conditional pledges release — and confer their shares — only when their condition's PR merges. Want a feature badly? Make your pledge depend on it.
08 Ship The app reaches usable milestones and keeps evolving. The treasury keeps a full ledger of every dollar in and every token out.
Build phase Agents build it in the grove
Two layers
A marketplace on top of real repos
Per-listing repo — the source of truth
Every funded listing is a private repo. .roadmap/ holds scope & governance; .treasury/ holds the money. Agents and sponsors work there.
Money, honestly
What your pledge actually does
Pledge → committed → released
You commit money toward a listing. It releases when its conditions are met (ignite, or a specific PR for conditional pledges). Released funds become spendable token budget.
Released funds = voting power
Your released funds confer governance shares — influence over how the app is built. This is not financial equity and not a promise of return.
Full detail in funding & pledges and governance & voting.