MVP Marketplace

Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for a successful marketplace - focused on essential features, target audience, and user feedback. Validate your marketplace idea and test the right stack for your business model.

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Why decide on Proof of Concept with Rigby?

Focused on
essential features

Rigby helps you identify
and prioritize the features essential to validating your business idea, minimizing unnecessary complexity. Our approach reduces scope risk while delivering a functional, minimum viable product
that engages the target market and supports clear business objectives.

Clear value proposition from day one

Our minimum viable product development lays the groundwork for early traction and future fundraising discussions.
Rigby’s presentation skills help secure stakeholder buy-in by clearly illustrating how marketplace MVP enables key features
and brings your concept to life through concrete examples.

Built-in feedback loops

Our MVP development includes tools and workflows that enable you to gather feedback from early adopters, allowing you to iterate quickly and improve the product
in the right direction. Make product decisions based on usage data
and actual engagement.

Optimized for
low development costs

Deliver a reliable first version of your marketplace with the least effort required to test real demand.
Our modular architecture
and phased development model avoid overbuilding while still maintaining the technical integrity needed for future growth.

Ready for future growth

Even as an MVP, your online marketplace will be built on scalable infrastructure, so once
the model is established, you can grow without having to start over. Rigby’s development team maps out how the platform will enhance your existing solutions, from CRM
to inventory management tools.

What you will get from the MVP Marketplace Service?

We provide a launch-ready, scalable version of
your marketplace that’s designed to validate your business strategy, gather user feedback, and serve as
the backbone for future growth. Here's what you'll gain:

1

Functional prototype

Get a successful marketplace MVP with required features
- ready for internal testing, stakeholder demos, and user engagement.

2

Resource optimization

Focus your time and budget on high-impact functionality by identifying the minimal solution needed to prove market demand.

3

Strategic development roadmap

Get a clear, phased plan for evolving your MVP into a full-featured marketplace platform
- complete with estimates and priorities.

4

Future-ready architecture

Build on a modular foundation designed to support future integrations and custom workflows. Your MVP is architected for growth, enabling you to scale without technical debt or costly rebuilds.

Let’s build together

Let’s talk about how we can build your commerce project — tailored to your business, powered by Rigby

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From Concept
to Successful
MVP Marketplace:
Our Process

We guide you through every step: from defining the right idea to validating it with real users. Our process helps reduce risk, accelerate time-to-market, and establish
a foundation for future growth.

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01

Pre-implementation analysis

Refine your marketplace business idea, set project goals,
and assess technical feasibility to ensure a solid foundation for your platform.

02

Minimum Viable Product design

Design a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for your marketplace, to prove your concept and attract early adopters
- balancing user value with efficient development costs.

03

Development and pilot project

Build the first working prototype of your marketplace, including core flows like product listings and order management, enabling hands-on testing
in a live environment.

04

User testing and feedback

Collect insights from vendors, buyers & internal stakeholders, evaluate performance, and enhance the platform based on real-world feedback.

05

Review and roadmap

Analyze results, determine the project's success, and plan
the next stages of your marketplace development process with our expert project managers.

Our clients’ success stories

We don’t just deliver services — we also build modular, open-source tools and starters to speed up development and make innovation repeatable. Built on Medusa core. Designed by Rigby.

Transforming Natuja: Migrating from Sharetribe to a Custom-Built Medusa + Mercur Platform in 9 Weeks

Natuja, a rising star in the DACH marketplace for natural products, migrated from Sharetribe platform to a customized Medusa + Mercur solution. It resulted in significant improvements in scalability and the capability to implement custom features.

Transforming Natuja: Migrating from Sharetribe to a Custom-Built Medusa + Mercur Platform in 9 Weeks
Andreas Pfaffrath

“Rigby delivered a functional marketplace that was easy to use by buyers, vendors, and internal employees. Tasks were mostly delivered in-time and in case of any delays due to unforeseen issues, we were always notified. Unforeseen issues were handled with highest priority keeping delays at a minimum. Their project management is awesome. The team is very responsive, always available, and communicates pro-actively. Their accountability was outstanding, and everyone was engaged to deliver the best solution in the shortest period of time.”

Andreas Pfaffrath
Andreas Pfaffrath
CEO of Apavend GmbH

Open Source Marketplace Platform

Mercur is a platform to start, customize, manage, and scale your marketplace for every business model with a modern technology stack.

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Got a project in mind? Let’s talk

Jakub Zbąski
Jacob Zbąski
Co-founder & CEO

“We build engines for growth, tailored to how your business actually works. Let’s talk about how we can help bring your vision to life.”

Jacob Zbąski
Co-founder & CEO