First-time poster here :) Going to include some context for those who don't see my LinkedIn posts:

After teaching Drupal for over 10 years, it's become clear that there are fewer job opportunities. So much so that I've stopped teaching my "Drupal web development career" course - I don't want to lead students down the wrong path.

The SBA reports that 99.9% of businesses in the US are small businesses. Since Drupal 8, Drupal has focused on the remaining .1% of businesses.

How do we create opportunities with Drupal from the 99.9%? My team has been building the solution for almost 2 years. We have 2 focuses:

1. Enable people (& agencies) to earn

from

1. new revenue streams with Drupal
2. Make Drupal be a sensible choice for projects of all sizes

So, what is the solution? It's a different type of marketplace and host:
- Developers (/agencies) deploy, sell, & maintain codebases on the marketplace (sites, not site templates)
- Customers get a Wix-like experience for previewing, buying, and hosting sites
- Customers get a Wix-like experience for maintaining their sites’ codebase (I.e. from a customer POV, security updates happen automatically. Behind the scenes, the codebase maintainers get paid for doing it.)
- Add-ons are sold directly in the site (themes, recipes, modules) and can be provided from various merchants (e.g. you could sell Dripyard themes in your codebase)
- Collaboration: Infrastructure so site builders can build & sell sites using other developers' codebases (multisite-style). Developer maintains the codebase, each participant sets their price, both parties get paid when a sale is made.
- Build sites for a specific vertical - either on your own codebase or someone else's (think: Drupal Gardens, but for a specific niche)
- Ability to set 1-time and recurring prices
- Oh, and simple, sensible hosting for sites of all sizes - with trivially easy & risk-free deployments for less technical users

After seeing it, Aaron “Checo” Pacheco said: "As someone who spent a decade trying to build and optimize a Drupal hosting platform, I'm astonished by how elegant and powerful Drupito is."

I talked about it on the Talking Drupal podcast earlier this year: https://talkingdrupal.com/563

We're looking for 'early access' users who are interested in building & maintaining a codebase or site for a niche - it's the main CTA in the main menu of drupito.com

Let me know if you have questions or thoughts!