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Ask HN: Can't a developer publish add-on for Outlook in Microsoft Marketplace?

A developer discovered that Microsoft Partner Center requires a company account to publish Outlook add-ins to the Microsoft Marketplace, blocking individual developers from submitting their work. The developer, who spent a day building an add-in, found no option for "Microsoft Marketplace offers" in the Partner Center and confirmed through documentation that only companies can publish to Microsoft 365 apps. The restriction threatens to halt further development unless a workaround is found.

read1 min publishedJun 6, 2026

After a day's effort i have developed a outlook add-in. when i went into Microsoft Partner Center i didn't find an option for Microsoft Marketplace offers which is supposed to be the place to publish office add-ins. Then when i went through the documentation, i realized only companies can publish add-ins to Microsoft 365 apps! Is that the case? Any workaround for this? I actually went to Stackoverflow and searched, but couldn't find any info on this. ChatGPT or Claude referred the documentation and summarized what was there in the document. Any help on this will help me decide whether to develop the add-on further or stop at this point.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427735](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427735)

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