@marckohlbrugge @kusti hi there, first congratulation on the launching new release. may i know if sharetribe offer like fiver/upwork out of the box?

@ahmad_eusof thanks a lot! It is possible to build a site a lot like Fiverr with Sharetribe, no coding needed. Upwork has a "reverse marketplace" flow, which you can achieve partially without coding with Sharetribe, but for the full experience, you might want to customize your marketplace a bit with code, like this Upwork-like customer of ours has done: https://softwaresupp.com/jobs

@saad_malik18 thanks, I appreciate the kind words!

@mohammed_mustafa_jafer a great question! There are loads of those concepts where I totally didn't realize that a market for that thing existed. For example: - A marketplace connecting farms to relief milkers (a relief milker, apparently, is a thing) - A marketplace helping sales people from big companies to book meetings with influential business leaders in exchange for a charitable donation - A marketplace helping people become better at playing Pokemon Go - A marketplace where you could hire someone in a different city to give you a virtual "tour" in a place of your choice through their mobile phone. One of those COVID-inspired ideas... This is why I'm so bullish about marketplaces: there are so many untapped business opportunities out there when you start looking at the world through this lense!

@marckohlbrugge @kusti congratulations on the launch! As an early supporter, I'm excited to see Sharetribe's progress. Best of luck! P.S. I loved the video! 🚀

@thevoyager3 Joseph! Thanks for supporting us here 🙏! We've been loving your journey with Outmost so far! Still siked that you got to pitch to Jason C! Can't wait to see the next version! Sky's the limit!

@thevoyager3 I appreciate the kind words! I really love what you're doing with Outmost, it's an awesome concept. I hope we'll be able to help you take it to the next level!

@kusti thank you. The new version of Outmost on Sharetribe is impressive. You’ve built a great team and product!

@krzysztof_gardocki Thanks for trusting us with your business again and again! Very happy to read this! I'll be sure to pass on these nice words to the team! 🙏

@ted_c2 thanks a lot for this comprehensive feedback, this is super helpful! 1. You're absolutely correct: automatically adding "featured listings" is still feature missing from our Pages CMS. It definitely should be added. It's on our roadmap, and we plan to add it later this year: https://whimsical.com/sharetribe... . In the meantime, it's possible for you to add the listings manually to your landing page, but this is indeed a bit more work than what it should be right now. 2. You can add links to your static pages to your footer already from the Content -> Footer section. The reason we are not adding those automatically is that you might want to have some "hidden" pages too that are not linked to from anywhere. But it's really quick to add those links! Adding custom links to top bar should definitely be available without coding too, as it's such a common need – we're actually working on it right now, it should be available in a couple of weeks! 3. I hear you. Our thinking on this is that we feel that the purpose of our no-code tool is to help you validate your marketplace concept and business model, and this can almost always be done with just one currency: I believe all major marketplaces started like that. Multiple currencies is quite complex to manage, with currency conversion fees, refunds, etc, and different marketplaces also might want to have it work a bit differently (the currency rates change all the time so it's a challenging thing to keep in sync). For these reasons, we currently think this is a feature that should always happen through custom development. Our Experts have lots of expertise implementing it though, they'd be happy to provide a quote for adding it to your site. 4. You are absolutely correct. We're currently working on a better support for a multi-level category structure. We expect to release it in 2-3 months. Stay tuned. 5. Thanks, this is good to know! I think this might be related to the fact that Google Analytics has some challenges in general with modern web applications that use a "single page application" structure. We should investigate this though. Perhaps there's something we could do to make it work in a more reliable way. Keep the feedback coming! This is super valuable for us, as it helps us know how we should be improving our product.

@kusti Super helpful response!! And glad to hear that some of these suggestions are already in the pipeline. Keep it up!

@ted_c2 will do!

@carolmoh thanks a lot for these words! We built Sharetribe exactly for people like you, so I'm super happy that you like it!

@chiara_sw 100%! And a very good point about the payment integrations! It's already possible to integrate any third-party payment gateway, but it does require custom coding. We have seen customers do RazorPay, Mangopay, and I also think PayPal, and some escrow service. And yes, our customer support team is our secret sauce! Thanks for noticing!

@chiara_sw Oh, and also actually the M-Pesa service, which is a Kenyan mobile phone-based money transfer service!

@miko_rytkonen 🧡 this! Heartwarming comment this! I'll pass all of it on to our team!

@miko_rytkonen wow, thank you so much for sharing your experience, it makes me so happy to read this!

@ishwarjha I'm happy that we're finally delivering what you've been waiting for!

@ishwarjha Thanks @ishwarjha ! I hope so too! We've been careful not to overpromise, but we're obviously also really in love with our own product 😄

@ivan_ivanka Thank you! 🙏 Yeah, we've had many like yourselves come to us, wishing they had discovered Sharetribe earlier! Sometimes even after dumping tens of thousands of dollars into custom development, or some botched WordPress monster. (Not to say it's not possible with WP, but it's often problematic!) We really hope we have solved that problem! Anyone should be able to launch a marketplace without technical knowledge or deep pockets!

@steve_cody1 Thanks Steve! It's been almost four years since we've met! Sharing economy summit in London in 2020, my last trip before the pandemic! I remember your last marketplace, but I didn't know it cost that much! It's been really great to see Marketplace Studio and Bunking thrive together with Sharetribe! Towards many more years of cooperation!

@steve_cody1 thanks for sharing your story! You capture perfectly why we exist. It's been great working with you on Bunking!

@obehi you absolutely can! Right now we don't have our own storage for managing those files though, so your sellers would need to use a third party storage, or you could add an integration to a storage system with custom coding. This is something we're looking to improve on in the future. But with a bit of coding you can achieve an optimal experience for selling digital files already today!

@nuno_ms_reis I completely agree! Thanks for the support.

@dalereardon no special offer this time. In general we don't usually do those, as we prefer to offer the same transparent pricing to everyone. I'm looking forward to seeing your platform live!

@mikaellarsen Hi Mikael, thanks for the thorough review, much appreciated! Possible the most valuable feedback of today! Just making sure you're discussing our latest product? The points you raise are all very good things to consider! Allow me to address a few: >Sharetribe are mainly placing the user to use their specific template without a lot of coding knowledge you won't be able to make your marketplace unique compared to other Sharetribe users starting up. Almost 100% true! I think you would agree that it is simply impossible to make a no-code solution that would allow you to make something even more unique than you could make when you code it yourself. I'd love to be proven wrong here. However, that doesn't mean you can still make it unique and customize the look and feel to be very different from other marketplaces and stand out in the market. We have seen an amazing amount of different designs. Of course, this is still very subjective, so I can understand if you see that differently. But, because we know that custom coding unlocks the next level of customization, this is exactly why we have now added the possibility of extending our no-code platform with code through our Developer Platform. This way, you can first get started without the need to code, and then extend and add things when you need to. This would also be my answer to your other point: >It is a good software for MVP's and early starters, but in the long run you should probably hire a coder. I think also 100% true for many marketplace founders! At least definitely something we have seen over the years, also with our older products, where some of our most successful customers had to move away, or started hosting themselves. Again, another reason for us to add the Developer Platform. This way, people can remain Sharetribe customers, and don't need to completely rebuild or start from scratch when they want to add custom code. >move your data from Sharetribe to your own databases and if they allow it, but hopefully they do. This is also possible! All the user, transaction listing data etc remains yours. We can create a datadump upon request. I don't remember the details but it comes in some intermediary form, that should suit most if not all dbs out there! > you could probably host this in WordPress with a few plugins for much lower monthly/yearly cost. I think this is the one part I don't agree with! Of course, WordPress is a surprisingly versatile platform with a very wide range of plugins. And I've seen marketplaces built with it. However, I think you'd be surprised at the upfront costs, to get it work and look like a marketplace. Secondly, there are no special marketplace management tools (think of user, listing & transactions management). Thirdly, you'd need to constantly monitor and worry about updating & performance. And finally, I think all of your previous points are even more true for a WP-based marketplace: harder to make it look unique, need coder already in the very beginning etc. Of course, regarding price: you are right. If you are willing to make the trade-offs on the things I mentioned (design, marketplace special requirements etc) and willing to pay more upfront, for the initial design, setting up, plugins etc, then you can probably lower the costs! O.k. well, I hope I didn't come across as too defensive! I really appreciate the feedback!

@borismanzhela That sounds like an intriguing idea! Integrating subscription logic & any third party is essentially not a problem, but...Sharetribe is meant for building two-sided platforms/online marketplaces, best known as the Airbnb/Uber/Etsy for X model. Does your business idea have that component? I couldn't make that out from your description.

@mo_hussein thanks a lot, I'm glad to hear you like it! A great question about payment systems. With the new Sharetribe, it's possible for you to integrate any payment system of your choice using our developer platform. Some coding is required, but it can be done. More information in our developer documentation here: https://www.sharetribe.com/docs/... I'm aware of at least one customer of ours who has integrated Mpesa. If you're interested, I could ask the Expert who built this integration to provide a quote for getting this done for your site.

@kusti @sidraref You got that right!

@slimmy82 Thank you! 🙏 Very much appreciated! Wishing you the best for your launch!

@simona_o_neill3 Thank you! 🙏 If you ever get your "Airbnb for X" unicorn idea, we'll be here for you! 🦄

@sjoerdhandgraaf Oh I'm on it! Unicorns are so 2023 though, I'm thinking of bringing dinosaurs back to life instead🤪lol

@vishaljagetia thank you so much, and all the best for your marketplace!

@vishaljagetia Thanks Vishal! Always love seeing people who have been on our journey with us since the beginning!