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It would be 1000% more awesome if they handled board fabrication and stuffing for the sellers, ie they became "Shapeways for electronics". Perhaps they can team up with DorkbotPDX to get low quantity boards made.

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Eh? There's already plenty of companies that will do that, for example http://4pcb.com/ was one of the earliest ones to specifically target low-cost prototype runs (I've been out of that world for a while, so that's all I've got). Shapeways basically was "Quick turnaround PCB house but for 3D printed objects" :P

Tindie is a marketplace: many-to-many. 4pcb.com is not a marketplace it's a manufacturing service. Shapeways is a both a marketplace and a manufacturing service. The beautiful thing about their marketplace is that they also provide the manufacturing (3D printing). So as a seller all I have to do is provide the 3D model STL file and people who buy the product get a physical object. It would be awesome if Tindie did the same thing with PCBs. Currently I don't know of any PCB marketplaces that provide manufacturing as part of their offering. Sparkfun will sell products for you but there are minimum orders, and I believe you have to purchase all the raw materials ahead of time. It would be awesome to have an appstore for PCBs. If you make one, email me and I will be an evangelist customer.

The BatchPCB marketplace sounds similar to what you are looking for (for PCBs):

http://batchpcb.com/index.php/Products

...and you might find Club Jameco interesting as a slightly different take on the Sparkfun idea:

http://www.clubjameco.com/

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