Two-Sided - The Marketplace Podcast

In this special, one-off mini-episode of Two-sided, Sjoerd asks for your help and reflects back on the past ten years of building marketplace software at Sharetribe.

On January 30th, 2024, Sharetribe launched its best marketplace builder today on Product Hunt. We were featured as #2 Product of the Day! Thank you so much for your support!

With the new Sharetribe, you can launch a marketplace in a day, without coding. You can also extend it infinitely with code. And scale to any size.

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What is Two-Sided - The Marketplace Podcast?

Two-Sided, the podcast about building an online marketplace business. Two-sided of course, because we’ll discuss Demand & Supply, but also the good side and the bad side, the easy stuff and the hard stuff, and how it looks from the outside versus what is really going on on the inside of an online marketplace.
In this series, we sit down with marketplace entrepreneurs, investors and other brilliant minds who work with online marketplaces and two-sided platforms every single day.
We will talk about starting, building, growing and scaling, and every stage in between. In each episode, we will do our best to uncover insights and wisdom you won’t find anywhere else.
If you are into online marketplace businesses, you will be into this podcast.

Hello and welcome. I'm Sjoerd, the CMO at Sharetribe, and I'm your host. This episode is a bit special as it's neither a season recap nor an announcement of a new season, although I am working on one, more on that later. Instead, I want to share something different.

As you might know, this podcast is produced by Sharetribe, my employer and the company I partly own. At Sharetribe, we make marketplace software to help founders build their marketplaces. Part of our strategy includes providing content, like this podcast, to assist starting marketplace founders. We offer resources like the Marketplace Academy podcast and an online collection of articles and insights on marketplace payments, insurance, and other essentials. We usually provide this content without expecting anything in return, adhering to our mantra of "give first, ask later," and we avoid filling it with Sharetribe advertising.

However, today, I'm breaking this norm and asking for your help. In the past two years at Sharetribe, we've been developing a fantastic product, which I'll discuss more later. We're launching it on Product Hunt today, Tuesday, January 30th, and I could use your support. You can find the link in the description or visit sharetribe.com and click the banner at the top of the page.

Your assistance would be greatly appreciated, whether it's by asking questions, providing feedback, or sharing the link with friends interested in marketplace software.

Now, about our launch: Sharetribe has worked for over a decade to help non-technical founders launch marketplaces. Our journey began with a product called Sharetribe Go, launched in 2014, which was like Squarespace for marketplaces. However, its no-code nature had limitations, leading successful marketplaces to eventually seek custom development for scalability.

Noticing this, we developed Sharetribe Flex, an API-based marketplace platform offering a customizable and affordable solution for unique and scalable marketplaces with advanced features. But, Sharetribe Flex required coding knowledge or the resources to hire coders, limiting non-technical founders.

Today, we believe we've resolved this issue with the new Sharetribe, combining the no-code ease of Sharetribe Go with the advanced coding capabilities of Sharetribe Flex. This allows founders to quickly launch and validate their marketplaces without coding and later customize them extensively using the developer platform. Transitioning from a no-code marketplace to custom code is now simple and quick.

Powered by Flex infrastructure, the new Sharetribe ensures scalability and performance. We handle everything from software updates to data security, supporting founders at every stage, whether they are solo entrepreneurs or part of larger organizations.

This marks a new era in marketplace software, a journey that started ten years ago. The new Sharetribe is a no-code platform that can be fully extended with code.

Again, I'd appreciate your help. Visit sharetribe.com, click on the banner, and support us on Product Hunt, either by visiting yourself or sharing it with friends. After this launch, I'll be working hard on a new season of Two-sided. If you're a marketplace founder or know one who should be interviewed, reach out to me at sjoerd@sharetribe.com. I'm also looking for early-stage marketplace founders for a different series, so don't hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for your support, and I wish you well. We'll talk again. Thank you!