A Marketplace is a good idea.
However I would have expected ready made services / apps made by other developers.
Right now all you can do is to “buy” not to have limits for every little thing.
From my personal point of view, this makes it a show-stopper to many companies.
Most of those “marketplace” products should be part of plans. Completely intransparent and hard to calculate costs Without cost estimates, many bosses will politely decline to go for backendless.
You should do have a free plan, a starter plan, advanced plan…this way people have more transparency.
Marketplace should contain things like:
- advanced image manipulation (e.g. something like cloudinary.com)
- elastic search
- ready made components for common use-cases (private messaging, spam filtering, customer support, advanced user profiles, galeries, discussion forums/boards, activity feeds, follow user functions, prediction engine, etc…)