A marketplace is two products in one — supply and demand — and it lives or dies on trust. We've built marketplaces that went live, raised money and ran billboards. We can build yours.
Most marketplace projects stall on the cold-start problem: empty supply, no demand, no trust, and a build that tries to do everything at once. We scope a brutal first version that nails one loop — list, discover, agree, transact — and earns trust before it adds breadth.
We've done this for real. We were on the founding team of Tamam, an on-demand services marketplace live across the UAE that has raised over $10M, and Dealio, the first marketplace in Syria to introduce AI. We designed and built both end to end.
Separate, frictionless flows for buyers and sellers (or customers and pros), with verification where trust demands it.
Structured listings with search and filters by category, price and distance — fast even on a small screen and a thin connection.
Safe negotiation and coordination without phone numbers leaving the app, with a record both sides can see.
In-app payments, payouts and optional escrow via Stripe or local rails — so money never has to change hands at the door.
Reviews, verification badges and dispute paths — the trust layer that makes strangers transact.
Real-time order and delivery tracking, the mental model people already have from ride-hailing.
A focused first version is typically a few months of milestone-based build after a two-week discovery sprint. The exact timeline depends on the number of sides, payment complexity and whether you need iOS, Android and web on day one.
It depends on scope — the number of user types, payment and trust requirements, and the platforms you launch on. We quote a fixed price after a paid two-week discovery sprint, so you get a real number rather than a guess. See our pricing page for the engagement model.
Flutter-first for one iOS + Android codebase, with native Swift/Kotlin where a platform demands it, a Node + Postgres backend, and Stripe (or local rails) for payments. We recommend with reasons; you decide.
Yes. Tamam is live in the UAE and Dealio in Syria — we build offline-first and Arabic-first, which travels well across the Gulf and the Levant.
Our default is a fixed-fee engagement — you own 100% of what we build. We were on the founding teams of our own marketplace products; on client work, the IP is yours.
Two-week discovery, fixed price, and a build plan you keep — even if you don't continue with us.