Marketplace directions

Two ways for agents to sell things to each other

Michael's note: "Imagine being able to post furniture or whatever in a marketplace for sale, like Facebook Marketplace." The two directions below are drawn for that. The first is a photo grid with fixed prices, the shape people already know. The second groups items by the home they are leaving and sells them on offers before closing, which only Tour Dash could do.

Thursday, September 24, 2026Demo data, the agent accountLight theme shown, both inherit dark from tokens

Why this fits Tour Dash

Agents already have the things a marketplace needs and Facebook does not. Every account is a verified person with a name, a photo, a phone and a history of jobs. Every account has a location and a radius, because Find opportunities already filters by both. Every account has a wallet that can hold money and release it later, because that is how a job is paid. Facebook Marketplace has none of that, which is why it is full of "is this still available" and no-shows.

The stock is real too. Staging furniture between listings, open house signs, lockboxes, a lamp a seller left behind, forty moving boxes after a closing. Agents move house-sized amounts of stuff for a living, and right now they sell it to strangers or leave it at the curb.

A · The Shelf is a Marketplace page in the sidebar: a photo grid, a price on each tile, a distance, a Buy button that holds the money in the buyer's wallet until pickup. Selling is one dialog. B · The Lot starts from the address instead of the item. A listing agent posts everything leaving with a house as one lot, buyers make offers, the pickup window comes from the closing date, and they can come see it all at the open house.

What both directions share

Money goes through the wallet. The buyer pays into a hold, the seller is paid when the buyer marks it picked up, and a no-show releases it back. Same hold the jobs use, same cents column.

Only the town shows. The pickup address is hidden until money is held, so nobody browses for where the lockboxes are kept.

Location is the one already on the account. Within 10 miles by default, the same radius control as Find opportunities. Demo items sit within 5 miles of the default center so they survive the filter.

Messages stay in the app and use the notification and email plumbing that shipped on September 10.

The design rules hold. Sentence case, Inter, the locked title scale. One amber on the page, and it is the sell action. Categories are not coloured, and nothing gets a hue of its own.

Side by side

	A · The Shelf	B · The Lot
The unit for sale	One item, one price, one seller	A house's worth of items under one address and one pickup window
How the buyer finds it	Photo grid, filtered by radius, category, price and recency	Lot cards by address and closing date, with an Items tab that flattens them into a grid
Price	Fixed, or free. No haggling in the product	Offers, with an optional asking price. One accept per item closes the rest
Who can sell	Any verified account, agent or vendor	Anyone, but the best version needs a listing under contract
Where the money sits	Held in the wallet at Buy, released when the buyer marks pickup	Held when an offer is accepted, released on pickup day by the seller or the host
Pickup	Arranged in the thread, at a saved place	Fixed window derived from closing, optionally staffed by a Get coverage job
Ties to the core product	Profiles, radius, wallet, messages, notifications	All of A's, plus listings, the calendar, open houses and a new job type
What is new to build	An items table with photos, a Marketplace page, item detail, the Sell dialog, a message thread, a hold and release flow	All of A's, plus lots, offers with accept and auto-decline, the closing-date window, the calendar hook and the Pickup day host job
Build cost	Medium. Threads and the hold are the work. The grid is the easy part	High. Offers alone are a small auction system, and it leans on listings having a closing date
Biggest risk	An empty grid. A marketplace with nine items in it looks abandoned, and the radius makes it emptier	Dependence on listings. If agents post lots without one, it collapses into A with extra steps
What Facebook cannot copy	Verified sellers and held money	Everything. It needs the listing, the closing and the open house

Recommendation

A · The ShelfBuild this first

It is the shape every agent already knows, it works on day one with three items in it, and the hard parts (the thread, the hold, the release) are the same hard parts B needs. Ship it in the sidebar as Marketplace, agent and vendor accounts both, local pickup only.

B · The LotTake two things now

Take the grouping and the window. Let a seller post several items at once from one address, and let a listing under contract fill in the pickup window from closing. Skip offers until the grid is busy enough that fixed prices are leaving money on the table. Add the Pickup day host job when the first lot has more than ten items.

Either wayNon-negotiables

Money moves through the wallet in cents, with the same hold the jobs use. Street addresses show only after money is held. Sell something is the one amber. Sentence case, Inter, the locked title scale, no colour per category. Demo items within 5 miles of the default center and zero Supabase calls on /demo.

Open questions for Michael

Does Tour Dash take a cut? Facebook takes nothing on local pickup. A fee makes the hold worth running but pushes cheap items to a cash handshake. A flat fee under $5, or free under $50, are the two sensible answers.
Agents only, or vendors too? Vendors are the ones with trucks and storage units. Letting them sell fills the grid faster, and letting them buy clears it.
Shipping, ever? Both directions assume local pickup only. Shipping means labels, weights and disputes, and it breaks the radius model.
Which categories on day one? Furniture, staging, signs and lockboxes, tools, and free. Anything more and the filter is longer than the grid.