I’ve been trying to get this Marketplace going and it’s been wrecking my mental health.

These 2-sided marketplaces are hard!

I’ve been focusing on the supply side which doesn’t seem to be working. There are a few VC backed competitors with better tech.

I’ve been doing a lot of content marketing to try to get demand side.

It isn’t working…

I’m wondering when people call it quits with a marketplace?

  • pxrage@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    3x marketplace founder here, 2 failed, 1 still in the works.

    Fake the supply. There is no other way.

  • Azra_Nysus@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The tricky thing about a marketplace is you have to double your outreach / marketing efforts to get both sides of the equation going. I have a client who is using an affiliate program for organic growth and it’s been working well them.