Discover
Browse a curated shelf of apps chosen for craft and character. Filter by aesthetic, not by category. Find the one that feels like you.
Buy & download
One-tap checkout. Free apps download instantly, paid apps are yours forever. No subscriptions buried in fine print.
Build & sell
Made something lovely? Upload it, set your price, keep the lion's share. We handle the storefront so you can keep making.
The Shelf
Every app here was picked for one reason: it's beautiful to use. Filter by the aesthetic you're in the mood for.
Pick a vibe
Software doesn't have to look like software. Browse by the aesthetic that fits your day. Every app on Potchkey lives inside one of these worlds.
Your life should be seeing beauty every single day.
Most software is boring, rote, and looks like every other program. We think that's a tragedy of small moments. The tools you touch a hundred times a day should give something back. Potchkey is a home for the makers who agree, and the people who want to live with what they make.
Upload your app
Drop your build, set a price, pick a vibe. We list it on the shelf and handle checkout, downloads, and payouts. You keep 85%.
Listing details
The Last Mile
Stuck at 90%? You vibe-coded something you love but can't quite cross the finish line. Find a tinker who can. The last mile is where good apps either ship or die in a folder — this is where they ship.
Post what's stuck
Describe your half-built app and the one thing in the way — the auth flow, the payment hookup, the bug you can't crack, the polish pass.
Match with a tinker
Browse builders who finish things for a living. They speak vibe-code, they read your repo, they don't make you feel dumb for using AI to get here.
Cross the finish line
Pair up, fix the last mile, ship it. List it on the shelf when it's done — or just keep it for yourself, beautifully finished.
Tinkers for hire
Builders who love the last 10%. Filter by what you're stuck on.
Need a hand?
Tell us what's stuck. We'll match you with a tinker who can finish it.
About Potchkey
Potchkey Labs is a marketplace for software with a point of view. We started it because the apps we open every day had stopped delighting us — they all looked the same, and using them felt like filing paperwork.
So we made a shelf for the other kind. Apps built by people who care how a button feels, what a corner radius says, whether a color makes you smile. You can buy them, download them, and keep them. And if you make beautiful things, you can sell them here too.
A storefront, a community, and a small argument that your life should be seeing beauty every single day.
- Keep 85% of every sale
- Free to list, weekly payouts
- Your work, your price, your aesthetic
What's a Potchkey?
Potchkey comes from the Yiddish word potchke (also spelled patshke) — to putter, to fiddle, to tinker, to fuss happily over something until it's just right.
It's the verb for the person who can't leave a thing alone — who keeps nudging the corner radius at midnight, who potchkes with a side project for the pure joy of it. Less "ship fast," more "make a delightful mess and love every minute."
We picked it because that's exactly what building a beautiful app feels like. And because Yiddish is a gloriously whimsical, expressive language — full of words that sound like what they mean — it felt right. Potchkey made us smile, so we kept it.
- to potchke (v.) — to mess about, tinker, putter, fuss
- a Potchkey — a home for the people who do
A small note on spelling: Yiddish has no single "correct" English transliteration, so you'll see potchke, patshke, patchki, and more. We spell it our way.
Code of Conduct
Everyone's welcome here. Leave your 'tudes at the door.
Potchkey is a place to make beautiful things and help each other finish them. That only works if it stays kind. So, the house rules:
- Design has to be on point. This is a place for creators. If it's going on the shelf, make it beautiful — considered, intentional, a joy to use. We curate for craft, not clutter.
- Be kind. Critique the work, never the person.
- No gatekeeping. Vibe-coding is coding. Using AI to build is building. Everyone starts somewhere.
- Credit people. Don't pass off someone else's work as yours. Say thanks when a tinker saves your bacon.
- Help when you can. Answer the question, share the trick, leave it better than you found it.
- No harassment, ever. No bigotry, no cruelty, no punching down. Zero tolerance.
- Make things you'd be proud to show. Beauty is the point.
Break the spirit of this and you're out. Otherwise: welcome in, glad you're here.