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Use case — web app

Build a marketplace where both sides can actually transact

A marketplace is the hardest MVP to fake, because nothing is testable until both sides work: someone has to be able to list a thing, and someone else has to be able to find it and pay for it. That is five screens, a schema with real relations, file uploads and a payment flow — the reason most marketplace ideas die as a landing page with a waitlist. Vibely builds the whole loop from a description, so the first thing you test is the transaction rather than the pitch.

  • Seller listings with image upload to Supabase Storage
  • Buyer search and category filters over a real Postgres schema
  • Stripe checkout through the Stripe connector, in your own account
  • Deploys to a live URL — nothing for your team to install
  • React and TypeScript you own, synced to GitHub whenever you want it
  • Add the mobile app later from the same account — same builder, native output

Start with this prompt

Paste it in and edit the details to match your own. Being specific about the screens and the data is what separates a working app from a mockup.

Build a marketplace for people renting out camera gear locally.

Seller side: a form to post a listing with photos, a daily price, a description and a category, plus a page showing my listings with edit and delete.

Buyer side: a browse page with search, a category filter and a price sort; a listing detail page with a photo gallery, the owner’s profile and a Book button.

Data: users, listings, categories and bookings in Supabase, photos in Supabase Storage. A seller can only edit their own listings.

Seed it with about fifteen listings across three categories so the browse page looks real.

What to build next

  • Add Stripe checkout to the Book button and record the order.
  • Add messaging between buyer and seller on a listing.
  • Add reviews, and show an average rating on the listing card.

Web app

What the build actually consists of

For a founder testing whether supply and demand will actually meet, and for an operator formalising a marketplace that currently runs on a WhatsApp group or a Google Form. It is a first version to put in front of real users, not a regulated payments platform — read the payments answer below before you assume otherwise.

01

Both sides of the loop

A listing form with image upload for sellers, a browse-and-search view with filters for buyers, public profile pages, and a detail page that ends in a checkout button instead of a dead end.

02

Relations and files, done properly

Users, listings, categories and orders as related Postgres tables on Supabase, with images in Supabase Storage and row-level rules so sellers edit only their own listings.

03

Payments that are really payments

Stripe is one of the nine connectors we ship, so checkout is a live Stripe flow in your own account rather than a fake button that opens a modal.

What you get

  • A listing flow with photos, price, description and categories
  • Browse and search with filters buyers will actually use
  • Profile pages for both sides, with what they have listed or bought
  • Stripe checkout on the listing detail page
  • Sign-in, with sellers scoped to their own listings
  • A live URL you can send to your first ten users today

Describe it. Watch it build.

Paste the prompt above and react to something running instead of writing a spec. The free plan needs no card, and the code is yours from the first build.

Start building

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Can it take payments and pay sellers out?+

Checkout, yes — Stripe is a shipped connector and the flow runs in your own Stripe account. Splitting a payment and paying sellers out is Stripe Connect, which is a real piece of work with its own onboarding and compliance requirements: the agent can write against it in your code, but do not read "marketplace" here as "payouts are handled for you". Most first versions collect payment centrally and settle manually until volume justifies otherwise.

Will it hold up if the marketplace takes off?+

The output is standard React and TypeScript on Postgres, so it scales the way any such application scales — with indexes, caching and the usual work, done by you or by an engineer you hire. Nothing about it has to be rebuilt to be taken seriously, which is the part a prototype tool normally costs you.

Can I have a mobile app for this too?+

Yes, and it is a genuinely native one. Vibely builds React Native and Expo apps in the same workspace — real navigation, real native components, camera and location where you need them — not a web page in a shell. That is the thing most builders in this category cannot do at all.