Your Marketplace Idea Won't Survive First Contact With Real Users
If you're a founder building a two-sided marketplace, you already know the truth: supply without demand is a graveyard, demand without supply is a refund.
We build marketplace MVPs with real liquidity strategies, integrated payments, KYC, and trust & safety -- shipped on Next.js and Supabase.
Your marketplace goes live with one side empty and the other never arrives. A two-sided platform connects supply -- sellers, hosts, providers -- with demand -- buyers, renters, bookers -- but only if both sides believe the other exists. Your MVP isn't feature-complete. It's transaction-ready. Real payments moving between parties. Identity verification stopping fraud before your first seller onboards. Enough liquidity seeded that early users see activity, not an empty homepage. You're not proving every feature works. You're proving your matching logic, trust rails, and commission structure can sustain repeat transactions before you burn runway scaling a platform nobody trusts.
What is holding your current website back?
Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
Stripe Connect & Adyen Integration
Multi-party payment flows with split payouts, platform fees, and support for 135+ currencies. We handle seller onboarding, delayed captures, and refund routing so money moves correctly from day one -- no surprises.
KYC via Onfido & Persona
AI-driven identity verification with sub-60-second checks and 99% accuracy. Biometric liveness detection and document orchestration keep bad actors off your platform without making life difficult for legitimate users.
Hive Moderation for Trust & Safety
Automated content and image scanning at 95%+ precision, built to scale to millions of items per day. We pair that with human-in-the-loop escalation for the edge cases AI genuinely can't resolve on its own.
Real-Time Matching Algorithms
Custom liquidity algorithms built on Supabase Edge Functions and real-time subscriptions. Geo-matching, relevance scoring, dynamic feed ranking -- all tuned to your marketplace's specific supply-demand dynamics, not a generic template's.
Supply-Side & Demand-Side Seeding
Structured onboarding protocols for your first 20–50 adopters on each side. We build out invite flows, referral incentives, and soft-launch gating that creates real liquidity before you go public -- not after.
Transparent Scope-Locked Pricing
Every engagement starts with a fixed-fee discovery phase. You see the full cost breakdown before we write a single line of code. No change orders, no hourly surprises, no ambiguity about scope.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
Build matching logic and transaction flows on Next.js with Supabase Realtime pushing updates the moment a listing, booking, or message arrives
Your platform handles sub-200ms page loads globally with Vercel edge deployment and Postgres-backed auth that scales past your first 10K users
Connect Stripe Connect or Adyen split payouts with escrow, platform fees, and automated 1099 generation so money moves correctly from day one
Your payment rail splits fees, holds escrow, and generates tax documents automatically so you're not debugging Stripe webhooks at 2am when GMV spikes
Verify seller identity with Onfido or Persona document checks and liveness detection before their first transaction clears your platform
Your seller onboarding blocks fraudulent accounts with biometric checks and risk scoring before a single transaction damages buyer trust
Scan every listing, profile image, and message with Hive Moderation API to catch prohibited content before a bad actor torches your brand
Your content moderation catches prohibited imagery and text in real-time with human escalation queues for edge cases your AI can't classify
Seed supply with invite-gating, geo-fenced launches, and incentive dashboards built into your admin panel -- not bolted on later
Your supply-side toolkit gives you manual control over early cohorts so you're seeding the right inventory in the right markets before opening the floodgates
Deploy real-time notification feeds so buyers see fresh inventory and sellers see incoming demand without refreshing a page
Your notification system keeps both sides engaged with instant updates on bookings, messages, and new listings -- reducing the time between signup and first transaction
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Discovery & Liquidity Strategy
Weeks 1–2We map your marketplace dynamics: who supplies, who demands, what triggers that first transaction. We define your seeding plan, payment architecture, and trust requirements. You get a fixed-fee scope document with no loose ends.
UX Design & Data Modelling
Weeks 3–5Figma prototypes for both sides of the marketplace, plus admin. While that's happening, we're modelling your Supabase schema, matching logic, and payment flows in parallel. You approve designs before a build sprint begins.
Core Platform Build
Weeks 6–13Next.js frontend, Supabase backend, Stripe Connect or Adyen integration, KYC pipeline, and moderation layer -- built in parallel sprints with weekly demos. Matching algorithms get tuned against synthetic data so they're not flying blind on launch day.
QA, Seeding & Soft Launch
Weeks 14–16End-to-end testing across payment, verification, and moderation flows. We onboard your first 20–50 supply-side participants and gate demand-side access for controlled liquidity validation. You learn before you open the doors.
Public Launch & Iteration
Weeks 17–18+Full deployment with monitoring, error tracking, and analytics. Then 30 days of post-launch support -- bug fixes, performance tuning, and algorithm adjustments based on what real transaction data is actually telling us.
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