A better way to launch your two-sided marketplace

We use a new approach to help startups and enterprises launch two-sided marketplaces that are 100% flexible, for a small fraction of the cost of building from scratch.

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You own it

You own your platform, no ongoing license fees

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100% flexible

Unlike traditional SaaS tools, anything about your platform can be customized

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Set up for you

We do the work of configuring your marketplace, so you don’t have to

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Modern UI

Your marketplace will be modern and beautiful, following the latest UI standards

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Ongoing support and iteration

We’re there to support you as your business evolves and grows

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Scales with you

Your marketplace will be built to scale as your user base grows

"Working with Airdev was key to our strategy of building out a marketplace for kids activities. What would have once taken 6 months to build, we managed to get to market in 6 weeks. Airdev were very responsive and able to work through complicated challenges in a simplified way."

"We were able to get TicketRev into the market fast and actually start testing it with real customers. This additional time to learn allowed us to add more features to the platform to better meet customer needs. Thanks to the success of this plan, we’ve raised $1.1M in pre-seed funding!"

“Airdev helped me launch my marketplace for therapy services in a fraction of the time and cost quoted by other vendors. Being non-technical, I relied on Airdev's guidance for prioritizing the most critical MVP features to test my hypothesis. Really recommend using this team if you want a strong product to market quickly!”

How we do it

We build every marketplace to match client requirements exactly, using Bubble

Bubble is the world's most powerful and flexible no-code platform. It lets us build marketplaces with any UI and functionality, in a fraction of time and cost of coding them. And the Bubble platform allows us to scale and extend your product as you grow.

We standardize lower-level components, ensuring speed and quality

While every marketplace we build is custom, there are common elements between them, like search pages, profile pages, payment experiences, and more. We standardize these components, ensuring that you're getting best-in-class quality without needing to reinvent the wheel.

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Any kind of marketplace

EXAMPLES

No-code for venture capital

Deal Flow Management Systems

Manage and track potential investment opportunities, including custom features for sorting, tagging, and evaluating startups.

Portfolio Management Platforms

Monitor and manage existing investments, including custom features for performance tracking, financial reporting, KPI monitoring, and communication tools.

Market Analysis & Research Tools

See trends and identify emerging markets with data aggregation from various sources, predictive analytics, and AI-powered insights.

Due Diligence Automation Tools

Automate the collection and analysis of data from potential investment targets, including financials, legal documents, and market research.

Investor Relationship Management System

Manage relationships with limited partners, co-investors, and other stakeholders using investment tracking and reporting tools and communication modules.

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Common Features

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User & roles

User accounts with different user types and user-specific permissions

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Listings & profiles

Listings of various types, each with a beautiful profile page

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Search & filters

Search, filter, and sort functionality, ranging from simple to complex

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Payments

Payments that are split between the listing owner and the platform

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Messaging

Chat functionality for pairs and groups

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Ratings & reviews

Ratings and reviews for purchases/bookings

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Scheduling

Calendaring and automatic bookings based on date/time

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Analytics

Robust metrics and trends on visitors & their activity

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Languages

Support for multiple languages based on the user's location

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API integrations

Connections to any external service to perform tasks or manipulate data

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AI functionality

AI features for discovery, recommendations, or ease of use

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Anything else

Any other functionality can be added as needed

Because every marketplace we build is custom, pricing depends on the complexity of the functionality that you require.

Most projects fall into the $10k-$100k range. One the low end, we sometimes go as low as $5k for a basic MVP meant to test demand. On the high end we build enterprise-grade, highly-complex marketplaces for $200k+.

Feel free to get in touch with us to discuss your needs, and we'll be happy to provide a quote.

Case Studies

We’ve helped our clients launch a wide range of two-sided marketplaces. Our products support millions of users and billions of dollars of transaction volume.

FAQ

Common questions

What's the difference between using Bubble vs. Sharetribe to build a marketplace?

SaaS tools like Sharetribe can be great if you want to launch a product that perfectly matches the features that these tools offer. However, if you need something custom, our approach is superior because we have the flexibility to add or modify any functionality or design aspects of your marketplace. In addition, with our approach you own the IP to your marketplace's logic and UI.

Will my marketplace app scale?

Yes. We always design apps to optimize for scale, based on our understanding of the potential features and user behavior our client envisions. The Bubble technology is built to scale, with the ability to upgrade server capacity as needed (including migrating to a dedicated AWS cluster) to service a growing user base virtually without limit. Bubble provides simple dashboards and notifications to track app capacity usage to help you adjust as needed.

What technology will my application be built on?

We build on the latest visual programming framework, Bubble, which allows us to build incredibly quickly and flexibly with minimal technical input. This reduces the cost and headache to our clients, and increases app stability out of the gate. Bubble itself is written in CoffeeScript running on Node.js, uses Postgres databases hosted on AWS, and exposes POST or GET APIs for third-party connections. The app can be easily connected to external APIs and the app's database can be easily exported.

Is this better than coding my marketplace?

We think so. Building an online marketplace isn't actually technically complex, it's been done thousands of times before. That's why it makes sense to use proven tech to build it instead of coding everything from scratch.

Why is this so much cheaper than conventional development?

We are able to build marketplaces much faster by using the no-code framework Bubble and by using a modular development process. A key concept is that most marketplaces have a lot of common functionality and UI, so we can achieve drastically faster turnarounds by standardizing that functionality.