Here's some advice to you, reader: Try Sharetribe.
I don't care if you're not interested in building a marketplace.
But to get Sharetribe, you have to sign up for a trial and see it for yourself. Trust me, go ahead and do it.
Developing marketplaces is timeconsuming and really expensive.
I've wanted to start one for a long time - but having grown up with Shopify, I just didn't want to pursue it on my own.
So - I went ahead and sat down, and tried every single "marketplace builder" I could find, around a year ago.
There were some. They were all really antiquated, buggy and bad. Until I found Sharetribe.
I gave it a quick trial. And I was instantly blown away.
Just by looking at any site built on Sharetribe - you can see that whatever is powering this thing was coded by a bunch of wizards. The quality shines in every aspect of the site. They all feel like a unicorn startup. The exact opposite of the marketplaces made by any competitors - and that term feels insulting to even use when speaking of the other marketplace builders. Because let's be honest - there is no competition.
I sincerely believe that Sharetribe is, in all aspects, a company that will change the world and join the ranks of the likes of Stripe and Shopify. (They all start with S too!)
I've started building a marketplace with my team on Sharetribe, and it has blown away our expections already during that time with impressive updates and future plans. Pure execution.
The team has been incredibly helpful. I asked them a legal question that may impact me as a seller on their platform, and they had their legal team spend some hours looking into it.
Something really special is going on here. Don't miss it!