The Reposell Listing Network
Community Listings are nodes in a federated discovery network — never sellers. The official listing stays the trust and settlement layer; community listings compete and cooperate to discover the best software.
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│ OFFICIAL REPOSELL │
│ LISTING │
│ Canonical registry │
│ Verification │
│ Payments │
│ Attribution │
└──────────┬───────────┘
│ federation / discovery
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Community Listing A Community Listing B Community Listing C
└──────────────┬──────┴─────────────────────┘
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DISCOVERY
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BUYER
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Official Reposell
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Seller /sell
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🏆 Listing reputation
Every authorized community listing gets a public profile:
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│ 🟣 Indie Dev Directory │
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│ Level 12 │
│ ⭐ 4,820 Reputation │
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│ 1,284 products discovered │
│ 8,421 clicks │
│ 312 purchases attributed │
│ 98.7% uptime │
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│ 🏆 Trusted Directory │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
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Reputation is based on useful behavior, not raw traffic.
⚡ XP system
| Behavior | Reward |
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| Product discovered | +5 XP |
| Valid product verified | +10 XP |
| Successful referral | +50 XP |
| New seller discovered | +25 XP |
| High-quality metadata | +10 XP |
| Maintained uptime | +XP/day |
| Accurate health reporting | +XP |
| Long-term federation | +XP |
Do not reward spam: submitting thousands of products must not automatically generate thousands of points. Volume without quality earns nothing.
🏅 Levels unlock capabilities, not money
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Level 1 🌱 New Listing → Basic federation
Level 5 🔎 Explorer
Level 10 🛠 Curator → Custom categories · featured directory profile
Level 20 🚀 Pioneer → Advanced discovery API · analytics
Level 30 🌟 Trusted → Verified Curator badge · featured collections
Level 50 🏆 Elite → Priority federation sync · advanced reputation data
Level 100 👑 Legendary
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Higher levels unlock network capabilities — never financial advantages over sellers.
🔥 Streaks
Maintenance streaks encourage actually running the listing: 🔥 7 / 30 / 100 / 365 days, based on uptime, valid manifests, successful synchronization, healthy federation and accurate metadata.
🧭 Discovery quests
The official listing issues challenges; community listings build collections around them:
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"Find 10 Rust projects" 0 / 10 ████░░░░░░
"Discover 5 projects with no previous Listing" 3 / 5 ██████░░░░
🎯 Emerging Explorer — Reward: +500 XP
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🧩 Collections
Curation becomes a major discovery mechanism:
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🔥 Best Rust Tools 🤖 AI Developer Tools
🎨 Creative Coding 🦀 Rust + WASM
🌐 Open Source Infrastructure 💻 Indie Hacker Tools
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Superseded: checkout-fee splits
The $5-checkout-fee / 50-50 split described here is superseded by the contribution model: sellers keep 100% of their /sell price and declare a voluntary Listing contribution instead. Community referral economics will be defined against contributions — this section remains for historical context until that spec lands.
💰 Referral rewards
Community listings do not sell anything. Attribution flows through the official listing:
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Community Listing
│ discovery
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Official Reposell Listing
│ referral attribution
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/sell → Stripe
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The community listing earns its share because it generated the referral, not because it sold the software.
🪙 Reputation vs money — kept separate
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COMMUNITY LISTING
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REPUTATION REVENUE
XP · levels · badges referral share
trust · rankings settlement balance
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Separating them prevents anyone from simply buying reputation.
🛡️ Anti-gaming
Detection targets:
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❌ self-referrals ❌ duplicate products
❌ fake clicks ❌ fake purchases
❌ automated traffic ❌ referral loops
❌ mass registration ❌ artificially generated listings
❌ health-check manipulation
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Reputation decays when a listing is abandoned:
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Healthy → Inactive → Stale → Suspended
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🏆 Global leaderboards
Public rankings across the network:
- Top listings by XP
- Most discoveries
- Most successful referrals
- Best maintained (uptime)
Design principle
Gamification rewards being a good curator, not being a good spammer.
Build the best directory, discover great software, curate it, keep it healthy, help developers find useful open-source products. That makes Reposell something more interesting than a normal directory: a federated, gamified discovery network where the official listing acts as the trust and settlement layer.