The Marketplace losing its standalone identity is something I've been sitting with.

Before, it had its own gravity. You went there with intent, to buy, to browse, to scope out what serious builders were charging. It felt like a storefront.

Now it lives inside the Community feed, sandwiched between hot takes and hackathon posts. And I get the logic. More eyeballs, more cross-pollination, buyers discovering creators they'd never have found otherwise. For someone just starting out, that visibility is genuinely valuable. You're not shouting into a void anymore.

But visibility and intent are different things. A person scrolling Community is in browsing mode, not buying mode. The Marketplace used to filter for people already holding their wallet out. Now it's filtering for people mid scroll, which is a much colder audience for a purchase decision.

There's also a tone problem. A storefront and a social feed want different things from a post. One wants "here's what this does and what it costs." The other wants engagement, reactions, a bit of personality. Mash them together and you get templates dressed up as social content, which can feel less like commerce and more like everyone competing for the same likes.

I don't think the answer is reverting completely. The discovery boost is real and probably net positive for new creators. But a dedicated Marketplace feed, one with its own rhythm separate from the general noise, would let it function as a storefront again instead of just another content category fighting for attention.

Curious if others who sell here feel the same shift, or if I'm overthinking it.

The Marketplace losing its standalone identity is something I've been sitting with.

Before, it had its own gravity. You went there with intent, to buy, to browse, to scope out what serious builders were charging. It felt like a storefront.

Now it lives inside the Community feed, sandwiched between hot takes and hackathon posts. And I get the logic. More eyeballs, more cross-pollination, buyers discovering creators they'd never have found otherwise. For someone just starting out, that visibility is genuinely valuable. You're not shouting into a void anymore.

But visibility and intent are different things. A person scrolling Community is in browsing mode, not buying mode. The Marketplace used to filter for people already holding their wallet out. Now it's filtering for people mid scroll, which is a much colder audience for a purchase decision.

There's also a tone problem. A storefront and a social feed want different things from a post. One wants "here's what this does and what it costs." The other wants engagement, reactions, a bit of personality. Mash them together and you get templates dressed up as social content, which can feel less like commerce and more like everyone competing for the same likes.

I don't think the answer is reverting completely. The discovery boost is real and probably net positive for new creators. But a dedicated Marketplace feed, one with its own rhythm separate from the general noise, would let it function as a storefront again instead of just another content category fighting for attention.

Curious if others who sell here feel the same shift, or if I'm overthinking it.