I’ve built a few solid webkit automation workflows that I think others would find useful. A price-monitoring template that handles dynamic loading, a form-filling workflow, stuff like that.
I keep seeing that Latenode has a marketplace where you can sell scenarios. And I’m genuinely curious about whether there’s actual demand for this, or if it’s mostly niche interest from people already using the platform.
The appeal of publishing templates is obvious—passive income, help the community, that kind of thing. But I want to be realistic about what that means. Are people actually buying and using shared automation templates? Or is this more of a nice-to-have feature that doesn’t generate real traffic or sales?
I also have questions about the publishing side: do you need to maintain templates after publishing? If someone’s using your price-monitoring template and a site updates their layout, does that template break and is that your problem? How does versioning work?
Has anyone here actually published templates and seen traction? I’m not expecting to quit my job, but I want to know if it’s worth the effort to clean up and package what I’ve built.
The marketplace is growing, and there is demand, but it’s niche by nature. You’re selling to people using Latenode, not the entire automation market.
Here’s what matters: if you’ve built workflows that solve real problems, there are people willing to pay for them. Price-monitoring templates have steady demand because that’s a common use case. You won’t get rich, but it’s real.
On maintenance: you’re not obligated to fix templates when sites change. That’s the user’s responsibility to customize. You can publish an updated version, and existing customers see there’s a newer version available. It’s not like SaaS support where you’re on the hook forever.
The real win is that popular templates drive your reputation and can lead to freelance opportunities. Someone sees your published template, likes the quality, and hires you to build custom work.
Start by publishing one template you’re proud of. See how it gets received over a few months. That’ll tell you way more than speculation.
I published a couple templates and got modest interest. Not life-changing money, but enough to be worth the effort. A few hundred dollars over a few months from two templates.
What I didn’t expect was that publishing templates actually improved my own workflows. Having to make them clean and documented for others forced me to refactor and organize my own work. That alone was valuable.
Maintenance is minimal. I’ve had people ask for updates when sites change, but I’m not obligated to maintain anything. You can publish a new version when you feel like it.
The marketplace demand is real but limited by the size of the Latenode community. You won’t reach millions of users. But within that community, there’s genuine need for quality templates, especially for common tasks like price-monitoring and data extraction.
Publishing templates is worth doing if you’ve already built them and you’re willing to spend a few hours documenting and packaging them. The income is secondary; the portfolio value and community contribution matter more in an emerging platform.