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The chicken-and-egg trap kills more two-sided marketplaces than bad code. Here's the supply-seeding, niche-narrowing, concierge-onboarding playbook we use to take a marketplace from launch day to atomic density in 8-12 weeks.
Most cost articles wave around "$50K to $400K" with no detail. Useless. Here's the actual line-item breakdown — discovery hours, dev hours, infrastructure, payment fees, the Google Maps tax, and ongoing costs at 1K, 10K, and 100K monthly active users.
Most Sharetribe-vs-custom comparisons are biased — written by Sharetribe, by agencies that hate it, or by founders who only tried one path. We've shipped both. Here's the 8-question framework that tells you which path actually fits your marketplace, with real numbers.
The Stripe Connect happy path is well documented. The production gotchas are not. Here are the 12 marketplace failures we've seen up close — KYC freezes, payout holds, refund black holes, webhook idempotency bugs — and how to avoid each one before launch day.
After 18 months and 50+ production apps with all three: Claude Code wins for senior engineers and complex refactors. Cursor wins for visual coding. Copilot wins for enterprise. Real productivity numbers, not marketing claims.
Should you go headless with Shopify? Real cost numbers ($15K-$80K), real performance lifts (40-70% faster LCP, 20-35% conversion gains), and the honest filter for when it makes sense vs. when it is a $50K mistake.
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