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if I wanted to build an ecommerce marketplace like Amazon, what would be the right architecture to start building it on? would you use an out of the box solution and start hacking it? a simple OOTB solution like Big commerce wouldn't work for me because I need to be able to heavily customize the UI display with various custom components. thanks in advance for any help.
Beyourmarket, Mayocat, sharetribe are the most popular open source platforms to build a marketplace. A lot depends on what your vision is for this Marketplace and who's going to participate in it. For example look at Wish, a mobile-only Marketplace connecting Chinese sellers with buyers globally. The features you'd need to support to build something like that would be very different from, say, a Marketplace for B2B, or P2P (offerup). Or are you building a Thumbtack? Your tech, platform, and feature decisions should be driven by your business (what business are you really in?) customer segment (savvy, social, deal finders, truckers, DIYers?), where they are most likely to shop (mobile only, VR, AR, stores). That said The. Most. Important. piece of a Marketplace is Sellers/supply. Marketplaces fail because they lack the density, and quality of sellers offering and capable of fulfilling high quality, product/service. Lots of examples out there of businesses that failed to work on this, or just could not catch up with this single most important requirement for a Marketplace. Lookup Homejoy, Amazon has many such examples as well. Make sure the business model is sound (do a business model canvas exercise - check YouTube for instructions, or PM me if you need help doing a deep dive)
this is insanely helpful. I will reach out to you again later on as I make more progress here. thank you!
🤔 Depends on what scale you are looking at how many products and what the volume is. And also how confident you are in getting traffic. No point over engineering something when you are not sure if it would work or not.
once you get your estore platform figured out, I highly suggest integrating with Mirakl. Amazing platform for sellers/operators
Shopify. Hybris for larger implementations
anything less expensive? do you have thoughts on woocommerce for WordPress? it's free / open source which is why I ask. also, can you hack the Shopify UI with custom JSON, etc?
I've tried Wordpress and Woo to build Marketplaces when I was running my software business. They don't work for a Marketplace, only for a standalone Ecommerce website. Use Magento if you just want a standalone site. Wayyyy better and reliable, supported out of the box by most hosting companies. Shopify won't let you turn itself into a Marketplace. Afaik.