How to create marketplace?

[bayetargeted]

So, the marketplace is to sell packaged food like cakes and people who bake cakes can create their profile, list their cakes and users can buy from the platform from sellers. I get the commission on the transaction fees and the vendor will fulfill the order. One thing that i'd like to add - that some profiles will have a <verified icon> on their profiles.

I found platforms like sharetribe and youstak. However, was wondering what would be other options.

[kennethbilleau]

My platforms involve marrying sets of people together who are looking for a certain type of work. It’s quite niche so for my privacy I won’t detail what that niche is, mainly as I’m in bed and can’t be arsed to make a throwaway. But as a comparison, it’d be like a marketplace for bar owners, barmen/maids, but in a creative niche like plans launch marketplace. It’s people who can offer work, those who need/want that work, and then some additional supplier types around that.

[lenorecutter]

If you actually mean building a platform like Ebay or what not. Sure, you can build it. It won't be cheap, but that's still the easy part. The hard part is finding customers, content, managing everything, etc. If you build it, they will come is not something that is actually true. You would need a significant budget and a large team to pull it off.

[NickPowers]

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