About
Built for organizers, by one.
MarketCrafty exists because we got tired of running a festival on a stack of spreadsheets, group texts, and Saturday-morning regret. So we built the thing we wished existed — and then we shared it.
Why we exist
Your market is the point.
Every line of MarketCrafty was written with a specific person in mind: the volunteer board member juggling 200 vendor emails on a Tuesday night. The market manager trying to turn a parking lot into a venue with a roll of painter's tape. The first-time organizer who just wants opening day to feel less like a fire drill.
You are the reason any of this exists. We are not the heroes of this story — you are. We're just trying to hand you a better set of tools so the festival you've been planning all year actually feels like one.
Philip Downer
Founder · Inbox-checker
Who builds this
A tiny team of one — for now.
MarketCrafty is built and run by Philip Downer, a software engineer with twenty-plus years in the industry and a folding-table tan to match. The first version shipped in April 2024. After a year of running real markets on it and listening to organizers, he rewrote the whole thing from the ground up in 2026 — same idea, fewer rough edges, more of the things you actually asked for.
When you email hello@marketcrafty.com, Philip is the one who reads it. He answers the support questions himself, decides which feature requests get built next, and writes most of the code that follows. There is no support tier, no triage queue, no escalation path. Just a human, an inbox, and a roadmap your message can move.
- Day job
- Founder & engineer,
MarketCrafty - Volunteer hat
- President,
Clancy Days - Vendors per year
(Clancy Days) - 45 → 150+
- Festival revenue growth
(Clancy Days, since 2023) - +300%
Off the clock
Where the research happens.
MarketCrafty's real R&D lab is a small-town festival in southwestern Montana. Every product decision gets stress-tested by an actual board of volunteers, an actual lineup of vendors, and an actual Saturday morning that doesn't care if your software is ready.
Clancy Days
A community festival in Clancy, Montana. Philip has served on the volunteer board since 2022 and as President in recent years. Surplus is reinvested into the Clancy community (with some held back to keep the event sustainable year over year) — and since 2023, the festival has grown from 45 vendors to more than 150 each year, with revenue up 300% along the way.
Field testing, literally
If you have ever wondered who is in the parking lot at 5:45 a.m. checking whether the booth-map drag-and-drop holds up under coffee, it is the same person who built it.
Local food trucks
Off duty, you will find Philip in line at whatever new food truck just rolled into town. Tell him about a good one and you may have just earned permanent goodwill.