Yaybe Open Shop
About Yaybe
A market, not a mall. Independent sellers, each with their own stall, under one roof.
Yaybe started with a simple observation: the people who make the best things often have the worst tools for selling them. A potter with a waiting list runs her orders through direct messages. A guitar teacher keeps a spreadsheet of students and a PayPal link in his bio. A designer sells printable planners from a folder of links. They don’t need a bigger store. They need a stall at a good market.
Yaybe Open Shop is that market. Any member can open a shop in a few minutes, the way you’d create a page on a social network. The shop gets its own address at yaybe.com/your-shop, your logo and colours, and a home in a marketplace organized so buyers can find things: categories, filters, search and pages built for search engines and AI assistants.
What makes Yaybe different
We don’t touch the money. Every product links to the payment page you already use — PayPal, Stripe, Square, a Shopify checkout, anything with a link. Buyers pay you directly. Yaybe charges no commission and no listing fee, because there’s nothing to take a cut of.
It’s social. Shoppers follow shops. Every new product and post shows up in their feed, so the people who love what you make hear about the next thing you make. Reviews come only from buyers you’ve confirmed, so a five-star rating means a real customer left it.
It’s built to be found. Every page on Yaybe is complete, fast HTML with structured data, so search engines and AI assistants can read it properly. When someone asks for “a handmade ceramic mug from Nova Scotia”, we want the answer to be a stall on Yaybe.
Who runs it
Yaybe is built and run from Canada by Calvin Doucet. It’s a small, independent project with a long horizon: no outside investors, no plan to sell your data, no dark patterns. The free plan is the product, not a trial.
Where it’s going
Right now Yaybe is opening its first stalls. Over the coming months you’ll see the marketplace fill in: more categories, better filters, a Pro seller plan with more room for busy shops, and — when there’s demand — French.
If you make something, open your shop. If you’re looking for something made with care, wander the aisles.