Codeable
👤 Tomaz Zaman & Per Esbensen (Zaman freelanced on Elance and hated the underbidding; Esbensen was his rare fair-paying client. They built the fix both wanted.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
No-bidding WordPress marketplace, vetted pros
Will it work? · our read
Trust compounds. A decade of vetting built a WordPress brand clients trust enough to pay 17.5% extra. But peer-vetting scales slowly, and the moat holds only while WordPress stays relevant.
01How the money moves
Client posts a WordPress task; several vetted experts price it
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Codeable averages the estimates into one fair price; client funds escrow
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Work ships; Codeable keeps 17.5% from client + 10% from expert
02The numbers
$250K+/mo
project volume (GMV)
interview
17.5% + 10%
client + dev take
help center
300K+
projects shipped
codeable.io
GMV is not revenue — $250K+/mo is project volume; Codeable's cut is about 27.5% of it. Cloudways interview
EST from GMV x take rate; revenue not disclosed.
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Codeable — The Codeable Story (founders, growth metrics)Cloudways — interview with Tomaz Zaman (GMV, vetting, model)Codeable Help Center — 17.5% client service feeKinsta — interview with co-founder Per EsbensenCodeable blog — 96% of clients say they would re-hire
Revenue is EST, not disclosed. The only first-party figure is founder-stated GMV of $250K+/month project volume, from a Cloudways interview (undated within the piece). I derived about $825K/yr from GMV times a roughly 27.5% combined take (17.5% client + 10% dev, per Codeable's help center; the 10% dev side is secondary, not on Codeable's own page). Third-party estimates diverge wildly and are excluded from the headline number: Growjo lists about $31.9M/yr (implausible for this niche, likely a data error) and RocketReach lists about $2M/yr — neither confirmed. Founding story, take rate, vetting model, and growth metrics (300K+ projects, 750+ experts, 25K+ customers) are first-party. Codeable took angel + VC seed — not bootstrapped. Tomaz Zaman has since stepped back; card describes the founding. We never score you.