A public registry of every Coral source — Official, Verified, Community — with one-click install, popularity sort, and category facets. The single most important DevRel artifact: it makes integration breadth measurable, browsable, and contributable.
Today this question gets answered in the README or Discord. With a marketplace, it's a search query that returns a one-click install command.
Today this is a GitHub PR. With a marketplace + Cookbook, contributors see Submit a Spec → fill template → lint passes → marked Community within 24h.
Today, no visible quality signal. With tiered badges (Official / Verified / Community), buyers know what to use in prod.
| Category | Today | Year-1 target |
|---|---|---|
| Observability | 7 sources | 20 |
| Issue tracking | 5 | 15 |
| Communication | 3 | 10 |
| Infra / Cloud | 5 | 20 |
| Auth / Identity | 1 | 8 |
| Customer / CRM | 1 | 10 |
| Billing / Finance | 1 | 10 |
| Product analytics | 2 | 8 |
| Incident response | 2 | 6 |
| Data warehouses | 1 | 5 |
| Files / Local | 3 | 5 |
| Long tail | 71 | 133 |
| Total | 102 | 250 |
coral source add <id>~30 sources at month 12. Reviewed releases, regression-tested, SLA on bug fixes. Used in benchmarks.
Inclusion bar: internal — Coral team decides based on demand.
~80 sources at month 12. Lint-passing, 30-day stability, named maintainer, 100+ installs. Eligible for bounty payouts.
Inclusion bar: automated lint + DevRel review.
~140 sources at month 12. Lint-passing only. May be experimental. Use at own risk warning.
Inclusion bar: automated lint only.
| Option | Pros | Cons | Recommendation |
|---|---|---|---|
Static site from GitHub sources/ directory |
Zero infra, auto-deploy on PR merge, contributors already on GitHub, low maintenance | Limited filtering, no real install metrics, no per-source health dashboards | Month 1–3 MVP |
| Vercel-hosted Next.js app with backend | Rich filtering, search, install telemetry, per-source dashboards, programmatic submission | Engineering hours, infra cost, security/auth complexity | Month 6+ |
| Use Smithery as the marketplace | Already exists, already has audience | Not Coral-branded, no quality tiers, no integrated bounty | Skip — build our own |
Plan: ship the GitHub-driven static site in month 1–3. Migrate to Vercel-hosted Next.js app at month 6 once volume justifies it.