New Anthropic research: Project Deal. We created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf.↗

Introducing Contra Payments. The first payments platform that lets you sell to AI Agents. RT + Comment “Contra” and I’ll send you 100 products AI agents are looking for.↗

A marketplaces where venture backed startups and small cap tech cos can post their top 4-10 product priorities for strong external teams to build. Like a YC Request for Startups but for acquihires. Not sure that’s a business but there’s def demand.↗

To get started add our marketplace in Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-code and then install the plugin: /plugin install frontend-design@claude-code-plugins↗

Who's building Thumbtack for SaaS? G2 Crowd - discover, compare & buy software ?? - hire certified SaaS implementation pros Things I'm looking for: - # of successful implementations - hourly rate - ratings, reviews & case studies - recommended by the vendor, friends, etc.↗

Thread: The best consumer marketplaces end up supply-constrained, because they tap into an incredible amount of demand. For instance, Airbnb, Lyft, and Uber have seemingly infinite demand since the product/market fit is so strong--and this demand puts pressure on supply.↗

Thread: “Fake it til you make it” is a key strategy for overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem of starting a new marketplace, popularized by companies like Uber and Yelp. The idea is to bootstrap one side of the marketplace inorganically in order to attract the other side.↗