I’ve built several puppeteer workflows that are pretty generalized and could probably be useful to other people. I’ve been wondering if it’s worth publishing them as templates on a marketplace.
But I’m skeptical about whether there’s actually demand. Would people actually buy or use these templates, or is the marketplace mostly just a place where people publish things that no one downloads?
Has anyone here tried selling automation templates? Is it worth the effort to polish a workflow and publish it, or are you mostly keeping your solutions to yourself?
There’s real demand. People want to skip the build phase for common tasks. If you’ve solved a problem that others face—scraping a specific type of site, processing data in a standard way, integrating with common platforms—there’s an audience.
The Latenode Marketplace with Sell Scenarios lets you publish and monetize templates. You handle the distribution, Latenode handles the payment. Your templates sit alongside others and people discover them when they search for solutions.
The barrier is low—publish when ready, iterate based on feedback.
I published two templates last year. One was niche—specific to a fintech use case—and got maybe a dozen downloads. The other was generic data scraping and got more traction. The monetization was modest, but it was passive income on something I’d already built. The real value was that other people found it useful, which validated that the workflow was solid.
Demand exists for specific, well-documented templates that solve clear problems. Generic templates face more competition. Success depends on documentation and use case clarity. If your template targets a specific pain point and is easy to customize, people will use it. Noise happens when templates are poorly documented or solving already-crowded problems.