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This is a Marketplace Starter Kit designed to help founders and product teams get to market faster. It includes all the essential user flows and infrastructure required to launch a modern, transactional marketplace—so you can focus on solving the real challenge: the chicken-and-egg problem.

Instead of spending months on foundational UX and technical setup, you get:

• Frontend design in a well-structured Figma file (inspired by Peerspace) built using shadcn components (see Attributions below)
• Frontend code written in React and Next.js, with shadcn's component library
• Backend code written in TypeScript, Node.js, and Next.js
• Integrated services including Stripe, Supabase, and scheduled jobs (via cron), chosen for reliability and free-tier accessibility
• Comprehensive documentation, covering both user flows and technical implementation

This system helps you launch your v1 quickly, test assumptions, and iterate without worrying about boilerplate infrastructure.

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What This Is Not

This is not a plug-and-play no-code product or drag-and-drop site builder. It's also not a full-featured marketplace backend.

You'll still need to:

• Integrate your backend or plug it into ours via API
• Extend features based on your niche (e.g., deposits, ratings, SEO landing pages)
• Build an admin interface if you need moderation, analytics, or advanced payout controls

Think of this as your starting line, not the finish line.

Who This is For

This starter kit is designed to help:

• Startup founders validating a marketplace idea
• Product teams launching a new vertical or side-market
• Engineers looking for clean, scalable flow logic to integrate

You can use this system as-is, or adapt flows and backend logic to suit your specific business model.

Getting Started

This documentation is structured to help you understand and explore the flows that come pre-built in the Marketplace Starter Kit.

• 👉 Figma Design
  1. Publish the shadcn component library built by Yauheni Neviarouski in your workspace.
  2. Open the Figma design file that we provided, containing the designs for the marketplace.
  3. Add the Yauheni Neviarouski’s shadcn component library to the Figma design file.
• 👉 Flow Documentation (current document) — Covers the flow of the entire marketplace that we’d implemented, including flows for guest visitors, logged-in users, and sellers.
  • Current Product Limitations – An overview of what is excluded from this starter kit, which you may need to build on your own.
  • Glossary – Quick reference for platform terms

Feedback & Contributions

Have ideas, feedback, or requests? Let us know:

• Submit issues or feature requests
• Help us improve future versions of this kit

We’re building this to help others launch faster—your input makes that better for everyone.

Attributions

We’ve drawn from some excellent open-source tools and real-world examples to accelerate development and UX clarity. We acknowledge and appreciate their contributions:

1. shadcn – One of the most comprehensive and aesthetically consistent component libraries available. It strikes a rare balance between developer usability and design precision, making it ideal for early-stage startups. The fact that it’s bundled with both a React implementation and a design system Figma file makes it incredibly useful for founders, designers, and front-end engineers alike.
2. Yauheni Neviarouski’s Figma file – His shadcn-based Figma kit was chosen for its cleanly constructed, well-documented variants. We appreciated the careful attention to component structure and how intuitive it is to extend—something we expect our users to value when customizing their marketplace design.
3. Peerspace – Peerspace provides a refreshingly simple set of flows that are easy to map to backend logic. This made it an ideal inspiration for initial user flow design. Most Marketplace Starter Kit users will be restyling the front end anyway, so a clean, understandable structure was more important than pixel-perfection.

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Enjoy building. Get to market faster 🚀