Writing

Notes on building and running marketplaces.

Mostly written by our Technical Director. Mostly about the parts of platform projects that go wrong.

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What we check before accepting a marketplace project

Lee's actual assessment checklist, published. Payment complexity, availability logic, data sensitivity, integration surface, regulatory exposure.

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What a marketplace actually costs to build from scratch

An honest cost breakdown. Discovery, design, build, payments integration, testing, launch, the first year of maintenance. Include the cases where building custom is the right answer.

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The five things generated code gets wrong about payments

Concurrency, failed payment states, refund logic, payout reconciliation, PCI scope. Technical enough to be credible, explained plainly enough for a GM.

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Sector teardown

Take a public member directory in one of your target sectors, analyse what it does not do for members, publish it.