sharetribe
An open-source marketplace platform for building peer-to-peer rental and service marketplaces, built with Ruby on Rails and React.
What is sharetribe?
Sharetribe Go is an open-source marketplace platform that allows users to build and launch peer-to-peer marketplaces for rentals, services, and goods. It provides a complete solution with user management, listings, transactions, and payment processing, enabling entrepreneurs to create custom marketplaces without extensive development. The platform is built on Ruby on Rails and React, offering flexibility for customization and self-hosting.
Entrepreneurs, startups, and developers looking to launch and manage peer-to-peer marketplaces without building the core platform from scratch. It's ideal for those who need a customizable, self-hosted solution with integrated payments and user management.
Developers choose Sharetribe Go for its comprehensive feature set, open-source flexibility, and ability to self-host, avoiding vendor lock-in. It provides a production-ready foundation with Stripe integration, search capabilities, and customizable landing pages, reducing time-to-market for marketplace projects.
Overview
Sharetribe Go is Sharetribe's old source-available marketplace software, which was also available as a hosted SaaS product. Sharetribe Go is no longer actively maintained.
Use Cases
Best For
- Launching peer-to-peer rental marketplaces for equipment or property
- Building service-based marketplaces for freelancers or local services
- Creating custom goods marketplaces with integrated payment processing
- Developing branded community marketplaces with user profiles and reviews
- Self-hosting a marketplace platform to maintain full control and data ownership
- Extending an existing marketplace with custom features using Ruby on Rails
Not Ideal For
- Projects requiring ongoing active maintenance and security updates
- Teams without Ruby on Rails expertise or DevOps resources for self-hosting
- Marketplaces needing PayPal integration in a self-hosted environment
- Startups looking for a no-code, SaaS-based solution for rapid deployment
Pros & Cons
Pros
Includes user management, listings, transactions, payments, and search out of the box, as detailed in the Key Features section, reducing initial development time.
Allows full code customization and data ownership, avoiding vendor lock-in, which aligns with the project's philosophy of being a flexible foundation.
Supports secure transactions with encrypted API key storage, enabling payment processing without additional gateway setup, as explained in the Payments section.
Features a built-in WYSIWYG editor (Mercury) for creating and editing marketing pages without coding, mentioned under Custom Landing Page.
Cons
No longer actively maintained, as stated upfront in the README, meaning no new features, bug fixes, or security updates will be provided.
Requires setting up multiple dependencies like Ruby, Node, MySQL, Sphinx, and Imagemagick, with a lengthy, manual process detailed in the Installation section.
PayPal integration is only available for hosted versions on Sharetribe.com, restricting self-hosted deployments to Stripe, as noted in the Payments section.
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