# Marketplaces And App Store

Thingtime can become a marketplace for things, templates, apps, automations, and
trust services.

## Thing marketplace

Sell or share structured things:

- Datasets
- Templates
- Workflows
- Digital products
- Public records
- Reports
- Credentials
- Community-maintained lists

Each listing should have:

- Preview
- Schema
- Provenance
- License
- Price or access rule
- Update stream
- Reviews/attestations

## App store

"Apps" can be things that declare:

- UI route or embedded component
- API capabilities required
- Data schemas they read/write
- Permissions needed
- Version and migration policy
- Revenue model

Early app categories:

- Dashboards
- Import/export tools
- Form builders
- Voting modules
- Market listings
- Public official trackers
- Budget trackers
- AI assistants

## Commerce principles

- Keep purchase and ownership records as things.
- Use the API as the only write path.
- Never hide provenance.
- Let users export what they own.
- Separate payment rails from product truth so Stripe, crypto, bank transfer,
  or manual payment can map onto the same receipt thing later.