Buy or Sell easily your nocode apps - Nocode Market V2

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Hey everyone,

I’m super excited to share that Nocode Market (v2) is officially live! :tada:

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been gathering feedback, chatting with early users, and working hard behind the scenes to level up the platform — and today, it’s ready.

If you haven’t heard of it yet, Nocode Market is the first dedicated marketplace to buy and sell no-code apps, built with tools like Bubble, Adalo, Glide, Flutterflow, WeWeb, Softr, Xano, and more.

The goal?

Help founders and makers find serious buyers, and give buyers access to vetted, ready-to-go projects built entirely with no-code tools.

:rocket: What’s new in v2?

:office_worker: Buyer & Seller dashboards for every user
:bar_chart: A dedicated space for sellers to manage their listings
:speech_balloon: In-app private messaging between buyers and sellers
:laptop: A real-time chat system for smoother conversations
:star: Access full listing details and messaging with Buyer Premium subscription

:tada: And to celebrate the launch, I’m offering Buyer Premium at $99/year (limited time only).

If you’re looking to sell a no-code app (especially if it’s Bubble-built :heart:), now’s a great time to list it.

Just head to https://nocode-market.com and fill out the form.

And if you’re a buyer interested in discovering high-quality no-code products, you can now browse the catalog, see tech stacks used, and chat directly with sellers, all in-app.

Thanks to everyone who supported the project early on. I’m just getting started.

As always, feel free to ask questions or drop feedback.

I’d love to hear feedbacks!

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Congratulations for your launch! It’s always a nice feeling to reach such a milestone.

However, I keep asking myself why a buyer would specifically search for a no-code developed app. I think buyers are more interested on business KPIs (or maybe just a nice idea) rather than if an app is developed with one technology or the other.

Just wondering why the no-code niche.

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Hey Ademiguel!

That’s an interesting question :slight_smile:

I think simply because buying an app built with code or no-code (depending on the tool) is not the same thing at all.

Take my case for example: I’m very skilled with Bubble, and while I know a bit of code, I don’t have the level needed to maintain and scale an app built entirely with traditional code. So if I were to buy an app tomorrow, it would need to be built on Bubble—because that’s the tech I know inside out :slight_smile:

Another example is when I sold one of my apps a little over a year ago.

I listed it on the platform acquire dot com.

The KPIs were solid, but everyone who reached out to me assumed the app had been built with custom code. Once they found out it was built with Bubble, they all backed out—because they didn’t know how to use the tool and would have had to hire a developer to keep improving the app.

I think beyond the KPIs, people need to buy a project that’s built with a technology they’re comfortable with :slight_smile:

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That’s all assuming the investor is going to be running the business which is only the case in a small fraction of business sales. Additionally, with the right KPIs, an investor would be willing to rebuild it in a traditional code setting if for some reason that was necessary (it’s not).

I’ve been on boths sides of conversations regarding the sales of low-code apps and the only time that the platform the app was built on was a issue was for more old school investors who were concerned about scalability on a Bubble platform (and that was years ago). Moreover a substantial number of investments / purchases were completed without the investor even knowing the app was built on a Bubble (not that it was hidden, it just wasn’t relevant).

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I think that finding a profitable business is much more complicated than finding a developer, so I don’t agree with your hypothesis.

As per what you stated, seems that your buyer persona is: founder + no-code developer ONLY + happen to be aligned with someone else project. That is a more constrained target than one might think at first.

Regarding the charging of 99$/y. It does not make a lot of sense in my head because the buyer persona I’ve defined won’t buy much more than one project (it’s him the one contributing to its development after all). So, a yearly subscription sounds weird. The buyer would be subscribing, buying the project and unsubscribing again. A transaction fee sounds much more convenient to me.

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Hey guys,

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

You’re absolutely right, with NoCode Market, I’m targeting a very specific persona: users with little to no technical skills who’ve learned one no-code tool and want to launch a SaaS, but don’t have an idea yet.

These people tend to be very attached to one specific tech, simply because it’s usually the only one they know.

I know there are a lot of folks like this out there (they’ve actually been my clients for over 3 years now :slight_smile: I’m a Bubble coach for startups and solo founders).

So no, as @code-escapee mentioned, I’m not targeting traditional investors at all.

The only real unknown for me is: are there enough profitable no-code projects being sold to keep the marketplace running? Time will tell.

@ademiguel, your point about the subscription is really interesting. To be honest, I initially went with a yearly subscription because that’s what most existing marketplaces do (like Microns, Dotmarket, etc.). But maybe you’re right, it might not make much sense in this context.

The challenge is that I can’t take a commission on sales, because the platform doesn’t offer an intermediary service (too complex for now) :confused:
At the moment, I just redirect users to escrow.com. It’s the service I used last year when I sold my own app.

I’ll keep testing for a while and see how it goes.

Thanks again for all your insights! I’m taking all your feedback into account as I think about how to improve the platform.

Either way, it’s a side project. If it doesn’t work out in a few months… oh well, haha.

That said, it’s definitely the kind of platform I wish had existed a year ago (and I would’ve gladly paid for it!).

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@Maxime_Gadras
Really cool to see a space where people can easily buy and sell no-code apps. The new features like the dashboards and chat look super helpful and make the whole process smoother.

love seeing the no-code world grow, and this is definitely a step in the right direction. Wishing you all the best with it!

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I understand your personal pain point, but why create the app itself for such a small niche demo? The app’s features (as described, nothing I’ve seen) seem universal enough to be applicable for a much broader audience. Sure, you can have some additional small configurations for no-code apps, but I would think you shouldn’t limit the whole app to just no-code.

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Hey @code-escapee,

Simply because there are already a lot of well-established platforms on the market doing exactly that — and doing it really well :slight_smile:
Examples: Microns, Acquire.com, etc.

It wouldn’t make much sense to launch yet another solution that doesn’t bring anything new to the table.

As I mentioned earlier, this is a side project, and solving a specific problem for a niche is usually the best way to generate revenue!

Now, the real question is: is this niche too small? No idea — but the only way to find out was to launch something and see what happens :slight_smile:

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I think you won’t have problems with the offer-side. In my opinion, the great incognite here is the demand-side.

Also the process of filtering and curation of projects can be a bottleneck. And also, the perception of what you are charging buyers changes with the ticket size (it’s not the same paying 99$ for a 10k$ acquisition than a 1k$ one)

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The yearly fee seemed weird to me too when I first heard about it but it’s super common in this industry now, I think it was acquire.com who kind of pioneered it. There’s actually a huge market of people (me included) who purchase subscriptions to get a feel of current market valuations, and even just whats ‘hot’ in saas.

@Maxime_Gadras I think some of those bigger sites often turn down low revenue or pre-revenue startups, which I bet a ton of no-code saas are, would be interesting to see how sales of these kinds of companies goes. Good luck!

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Your site looks good.

It never hurts to try new ideas.

There may also be those who just want to invest in a business…or a business that is just looking for investors?

I hope your site works out for you!