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The Solo Market manual
The Solo Market is a marketplace for small, finished software: a buyer pays once, downloads the tool, and runs it on their own computer — no subscription, no account to run it, no expiry. These pages explain the whole thing end to end, whether you're here to list what you built or to run something you bought.
For solo devsGet your project live →From a folder on your laptop to a reviewed, buyable listing.For buyersRun an app you bought →One command, or let an AI assistant set it up for you.
Start here
The whole marketplace in one read.
For sellers
Turn a project you already built into a listing people can buy.
- Get your project liveThe complete seller guide — what you can list, how to prepare your project, the submission form field by field, review, and going live.9 min
- The App Package standardThe exact zip every listing ships as: manifest.json, README.md, SETUP.md, LICENSE.md and src/ — with a worked example and the setup promise your SETUP.md must keep.8 min
- Pricing & payoutsWhat it costs to sell, the flat commission, how and when payouts reach you through Stripe, and how refunds are handled.5 min
For buyers
What you're buying, how to run it, and what protects you.
- Trust, review & safetyHow every submission is reviewed before it lists, what buyers can rely on, and the rules that keep the marketplace safe to run code from.5 min
- Running an app you boughtFor buyers: what you actually download, the two ways to run it (one command or an AI assistant), runtimes explained, and what to do if it won't start.5 min
Reading this as an AI assistant? There's a plain-text brief of the marketplace at /llms.txt, and every page here is written to be quoted directly.