dbinsights

I entirely agree with you. This catalog is meant for people who understand how Heroku works. And if you don't know what you're looking for you wouldn't use the search field but rather the tags (and if you do know you want mongodb for instance, it's easier to type it in the search field and hit enter). As for reviews and ratings, your guess is as good as mine, but they are definitely a common trait of marketplaces.

My point has nothing to do with background color and legibility ; the design is an unmodified Bootswatch theme (http://bootswatch.com/). The point is about features ; the current listing on Heroku contains 78 addons. You have to read each name and short description to possibly find what you are looking for and once you have found the 2 or 3 matching options you have no way to know what people think of them. Hence search, tags, reviews and ratings which is the point of this little project.

Sorry about that, seems like I'm having heroku/rails asset pipeline issues. Sure doesn't help get my point across.