Would you spend money on ready made code ?

I've been struggling with sugarkubes for about a year.

What I've tried:

• marketplace for code

Why it didn't work:

• people come to the site looking for something extremely specific. The likelihood that you have what they're looking for is very low at the beginning
• people search for really really really random stuff.
• I messaged thousands of devs, many of whom (that responded) had no interest in selling code. It was a weird concept for them.

Depending on the use case, I'd definitely buy a good starting point / boilerplate code to get started.

The best example I can give you is, would you rather waste 4 weeks of active development on a billing system, or buy a scaffolding that already beautifully integrates with your app? Do you really want to handle all the edge cases yourself?

The answer is no. You'd rather spend those 4 weeks building more business logic that is unique to your app! Code is great, but it's a means of pushing your business forward.

A one time purchase of $100 to save 4 weeks of dev time is a steal!!

P.S. For our product, ProcessLogic, we started out with Laravel Spark, which provides us with basic SaaS scaffolding like user and team management, auth, billing, and notifications. :)

Hi, I’m selling a JavaScript Image Editor plugin called Doka.

I can tell you there’s plenty of developers out there that understand purchasing is a lot cheaper than building everything yourself.

The solution/library/template should solve a real problem/hassle. Building it yourself should feel like a very big task, this makes it easier to see the value of the product.

My biggest problem is that the given templates or started kits is not made by people I trust. I mean people without a public track record of being really good programmers.

I am also not interested in projects that just inject some weird dependency (just give me the code) or are too simple.

But in general, yes. Mind you, I never did. But I am really open to it. Your React Native example (or Flutter) might be exactly it.

I haven't launched yet, but I'm developing Nodewood - a JavaScript SaaS Starter Kit designed to cut down on all the boilerplate code you have to write when starting a new SaaS app. It's still in development (though nearing the end!), but I have a mailing list with customers who want to be informed when it launches, and a whole bunch of competitors in the space.

In short, people are definitely willing to pay money to save time. It absolutely makes sense.

Yes, I would buy a nicely designed & coded basic ecommerce template/library for laravel, react, etc. It will save me time to start a project:-)

I regret a thousand times doing all this by myself because it's very time-consuming. When I finally found out about existing products that solved this, I felt so relieved yet so stupid for not searching hard enough before.

So I'd say, yes, there's definitely demand.

I buy templates every now and then just to learn code patterns from other people. Especially if it's in a language that I'm new to. For instance, I code in React all day but I still haven't even tried using React Native yet.

A similar service I regularly look at is: https://www.creative-tim.com

For sure. These already exist and do quite well. Some sell for $500+ easy. Customer support is more important and will take more resources than you think.

It's not React, but this site https://shop.startbootstrap.com/ has Vue as well as HTML/CSS/JS/Pug "UI Kits" for sale. I've used them with great success in the past and will continue to buy my UI Kits instead of making my own.

Personally I would. For instance, I paid around 100 USD for several react bundles that contained components and styles for a fully responsive website.

I much prefer this than to spend several hours to weeks on non-functional tasks/features.

@Gabe might have insights on this.