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Marketplaces & Two-Sided Platforms// topic

Build versus buy, platform choice and scoping

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The decision made before any code — what Sharetribe, Marketplacer, Mirakl or a multi-vendor Shopify app really give you and exactly where they stop, what genuinely drives marketplace scope, and how to brief the work so it can be estimated at all.

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