Stop running servers. Start running marketplaces.
Yclas Neo handles the hosting, the SSL, the databases, and the security patches. You handle the listings, the categories, and the sellers. That’s the entire division of labor.
Most marketplace ideas don’t die. They just never ship.
The idea was fine. The niche was real. The tools were wrong. WordPress themes break, self-hosted scripts rot, and custom development takes months you don’t have. So the idea sits. And sits. And someone else launches it first.
Your idea is dying in a notes app
You picked the name. You sketched the logo. You told your friends about it. That was six months ago. Every weekend you meant to start. Every weekend something else came up.
WordPress became your full-time job
You installed a classifieds theme. It worked for a week. Then a plugin broke your search. Then the site got slow. Then a security scan flagged seventeen vulnerabilities. You haven’t recruited a single seller because you’ve been debugging PHP.
You’re a sysadmin now. You didn’t apply.
Your self-hosted site works. Mostly. Last Tuesday it was a PHP upgrade that broke login. The Tuesday before, a database that needed optimizing. Next Tuesday it’ll be something else. You wanted to run a marketplace. You got a part-time job in DevOps.
Marketplace software is stuck in 2009. We know — we were there.
We built the original Yclas in 2009. Back then, classifieds software meant a PHP script you uploaded to a shared host and prayed would survive the next update. Fifteen years later, the category hasn’t moved much. WordPress themes that turn every update into a crisis. Sharetribe and Arcadier charging enterprise prices for basic features. Self-hosted scripts the internet forgot about.
The tools got heavier. The pricing got greedier. The experience of running a marketplace still feels like a chore.
So we rebuilt it from scratch. Yclas Neo runs every marketplace on its own dedicated database. SSL provisions itself. Custom domains just work. Every feature is included from day one — no per-seat taxes, no per-listing charges, no feature tiers that gate search behind a paywall. You start free, and when it grows, you pay based on how many active members you actually have.
The first 25 members are free. No time limit, no credit card, no trial clock. If your marketplace doesn’t get traction, you’ve lost nothing. If it does, paid plans start at $29 a month for 5,000 active members — and scale with you from there.
I’d like to invite you to try it. Build something real.
Three steps. One afternoon. Zero servers.
No setup wizard. No config files. No deployment pipeline. Name it, shape it, ship it. That’s the whole thing.
Name it.
Sign up, type a name, and your marketplace is live. Instantly. On its own subdomain. With its own database. No waiting for a build, no DNS, no SSL. It’s just... there.
Shape it.
Every marketplace starts with nine categories and a sensible default setup. Delete the ones you don’t need. Add custom fields — bedrooms, salary, mileage, whatever your niche demands. Save.
Ship it.
Point a domain at it. One CNAME record. SSL provisions itself on the first visit. Both the apex and the www variant work. You’re live.
Everything you need. Nothing you don’t.
Every plan ships with every feature. No tiers that gate search behind a paywall. No premium plugin for messaging. No upsell for custom domains. It’s all there from day one.
Listings that don’t look terrible
Titles, descriptions, prices, locations, and unlimited photos. Auto-sized for every screen. Swipeable carousel or full-bleed cover — your call.
Categories that match how people search
Two levels deep. Vehicles → Cars. Real Estate → Apartments. Browse a parent and see everything underneath. Rename, reorder, or burn it all down and start over.
Search that actually finds things
Keyword search across titles, descriptions, and your custom fields. Or switch to location search and let buyers filter by city or region with autocomplete. Filter by category, price, or anything you’ve defined. Sort by newest, cheapest, or whatever makes sense.
Messaging that protects everyone’s inbox
Buyers and sellers talk through the platform. No email addresses exposed. No scraped contacts. You can read every conversation if something goes wrong.
Translation that doesn’t require a developer
Pick from 40+ locales and currencies. Then rewrite any string — every button, every email, every label — from the admin panel. Ships with English, Spanish, German, and French.
Moderation that doesn’t make you the bad guy
Edit any listing. Close a listing. Delete a listing. Read the messages between a buyer and a seller. Ban someone who’s scamming. Delete a user and their entire footprint disappears in one GDPR-friendly step.
A storefront you can actually build yourself
Six section templates — hero, article, carousel, columns, features, live listings. Put them together. Hit save. It’s live. No developer, no deploy, no waiting.
Databases that don’t talk to each other
Every marketplace runs on its own dedicated database. Users, listings, messages — completely walled off from every other site you run.
Analytics without a tag manager
Paste a Google Analytics 4 ID. Done. Tracking is on every page. Drop in a Search Console verification tag while you’re at it. No code, no GTM, no developer.
Fifteen years of classifieds. Zero servers to manage.
The same team that built the original Yclas in 2009 rebuilt the whole thing as fully managed SaaS. We handled the infrastructure for thousands of marketplaces. Now we’ll handle yours.
Building classifieds software since before the App Store existed
Your marketplace, in whatever language your buyers speak
Run one marketplace. Run a hundred. Same price.
Free forever, no credit card. Pay only when it's real.
Whatever you’re selling. Whatever your buyers are looking for.
Real estate, jobs, cars, or the everything-store. Custom categories and listing fields mean the same platform handles all of them. Pick your vertical and configure.
Real estate
Properties, rentals, commercial. Photo-rich listings with the fields buyers actually filter on.
Job boards
Niche and regional boards. Salary fields, location search, apply through messaging.
Auto traders
Cars, motorcycles, parts. Year, mileage, VIN. Search by make and model.
General classifieds
The Craigslist model. Multi-category, local, everything-goes.
Pay for active members. Not for every seat.
Free for your first 25 members, with no time limit and no credit card. When your marketplace has traction, paid plans are priced on active members across all your sites combined — not per seat, not per listing.
Free
$0forever
For proving your niche works. Free for your first 25 members.
First 25 members
Unlimited listings
1 GB image storage
Unlimited staff users & sites
Custom domain included
All features included
Growth
$29/mo
For marketplaces with real traction. Up to 5,000 active members.
Up to 5,000 active members
Unlimited members
25 GB image storage
Unlimited staff users & sites
Custom domain included
All features included
Pro
$199/mo
For operators running real businesses. Up to 50,000 active members.
Up to 50,000 active members
Unlimited members
100 GB image storage
Unlimited staff users & sites
Custom domain included
Priority support
Why $29 when everyone else charges $200+?
Because the stack is lean by design. Dedicated databases, automatic SSL, edge storage. $29 is what this costs when you build it right.
SQLite per marketplace
Every marketplace gets its own dedicated SQLite database. No shared tables, no noisy neighbors, no performance dips when someone else’s marketplace gets busy. Your data is yours alone — fast, isolated, and impossible to collide with anyone else’s.
SSL provisions itself
SSL certificates generate and renew themselves automatically. No setup steps, no expiry panic, no extra charge. Add a custom domain and the certificate provisions on the first visit — before your first user even arrives.
Edge storage
Images are stored on Cloudflare R2 — served from the edge, fast for your users worldwide, with zero egress fees. Your marketplace never slows down because of bandwidth. 25 GB included on Growth, 100 GB on Pro, with 50 GB packs available when you need more.
Questions people actually ask
Your marketplace, live by the end of the day.
Start for free. Have your first marketplace running before dinner. No code, no servers, no credit card, no six-month project.
