How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built

Re:How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built by stanislavb on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:00PM (#21964052)

I'm positioning SaaSHub as a "software marketplace"; however, I've been told it isn't a marketplace if there aren't financial transactions happening through it.

What do you think, could there be a marketplace without facilitating direct fin transactions?

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Re:How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built by pirouline99999 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @07:49PM (#21965504)

I've seen your site and I think it's more of an aggregator or even a hub. It could be a marketplace but instead all of the $ is escaping to the vendor sites. It's akin to the difference between amazon and google shopping in my mind.

(admittedly google shopping probably gets a referral fee or something but maybe you do to?)

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Re:How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built by adventured on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:47PM (#21964365)

I think you make me ponder what's a reasonable limit to forcing commercial spam into threads for self-promotion purposes.

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