Building a marketplace for devs

I’ve been working on a marketplace for hiring devs to build bots (Telegram, Discord, etc) and automation scripts. Right now it’s just a waitlist at https://velcio.dev, but launch is coming soon.

Tech-wise it’s FastAPI + Next.js with Postgres, running on Heroku dynos and DigitalOcean droplets. The tricky part was making handover feel like an actual workflow instead of “here’s a repo, good luck”. We use gVisor for the container runtime so each project runs in a sandboxed environment, with secrets injected directly from the platform. That way devs never touch production env vars or credentials.

Pricing is a flat 10% commission (Upwork goes up to 15%, Fiverr is 20% + up to 5.5% service fees).