I’ve built a few solid puppeteer workflows over the past year that are pretty generic—like a multi-step data enrichment flow, a scraper for a popular platform, a login and transaction extractor. I’m wondering if there’s any real market for packaging these as marketplace scenarios that other teams could use.
The pitch for marketplace automation is that you can turn your automation into a reusable scenario with clear inputs and outputs, and then teams subscribe to it. But I’m hesitant because I don’t know if there’s actual demand or if it’s mostly just noise. Does anyone here actually sell automations on a marketplace? Is it worth the effort?
There’s definitely demand. I published a couple of workflows on Latenode’s marketplace and they get steady usage. The key is packaging them right—clear documentation on what inputs they need, what outputs they generate, and real use cases.
What surprised me is that people will pay for scenarios that save them time, even if the automation itself isn’t complicated. My best performer is a fairly simple login and data pull that took me maybe four hours to build but handles a repetitive task that people do constantly.
If you’ve got solid automations, the marketplace is worth exploring. You’ll likely get passive income from scenarios people actually need.
I looked into this seriously a few months ago and talked to people selling on various automation marketplaces. The consensus was that demand exists, but it’s narrow. People buy automations for very specific problems they face repeatedly. Generic scenarios don’t do as well. The ones that succeed are well-documented and save people significant time on tasks they’d otherwise do manually. If your enrichment flow is solving a real problem for people, there’s potential. But you’d need to validate demand before investing heavily in packaging it.