ChatAPIBuild an online marketplace without code
Listings, payments, and buyer/seller accounts — assembled into one product.
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How do you build an online marketplace without code?
A marketplace connects people who have something with people who want it — services, rentals, handmade goods, local gigs. The hard parts (accounts, listings, taking payment, paying out sellers) are all solved APIs. Describe your marketplace and ChatAPI stitches them into a working MVP you can put in front of real users this week.
“A marketplace for local home cooks to sell meals. Cooks list dishes with photos and prices, buyers order and pay, and I take a 10% platform fee on every order.”
What ChatAPI wires together
Real APIs, connected with just enough glue code to behave like one product.
Buyer checkout plus seller payouts and your platform fee
Separate buyer and seller accounts with profiles
Store listing photos and media
Listings, orders, and search in realtime
Order confirmations to buyers and sellers
What your MVP includes
- Seller onboarding and listing creation with images
- A browsable, searchable catalog of listings
- Checkout that splits payment between seller and your platform fee
- Buyer and seller dashboards for orders
- Email notifications on every order
Questions founders ask
Can I take a cut of every sale?
Yes. ChatAPI can wire Stripe so each transaction pays the seller and routes your platform fee to you automatically, using your own Stripe account.
How do sellers get paid?
Through Stripe payouts to their connected accounts. ChatAPI writes the connect-and-payout flow; you bring your Stripe account and the rest is handled in code.
Is a marketplace too complex to build this way?
The pieces a marketplace needs — accounts, listings, payments, payouts, notifications — are exactly the kind of solved APIs ChatAPI specializes in connecting. You start with an MVP and refine it by chatting.
Keep exploring
Build a online marketplace with a specific API
- Stripe
Buyer checkout plus seller payouts and your platform fee
- Plaid
Use Plaid to let customers link their bank account in your online marketplace.
- PayPal
Use PayPal to take payments at checkout in your online marketplace.
- Twilio
Use Twilio to send SMS text messages in your online marketplace.
- SendGrid
Use SendGrid to send transactional email in your online marketplace.
- Resend
Order confirmations to buyers and sellers
- Postmark
Use Postmark to send transactional email in your online marketplace.
- Clerk
Separate buyer and seller accounts with profiles
- Auth0
Use Auth0 to offer single sign-on (SSO) in your online marketplace.
- Convex
Listings, orders, and search in realtime
- Supabase
Use Supabase to use a Postgres database in your online marketplace.
- Cloudflare R2
Store listing photos and media
APIs in this build
- Stripe
Recommended. Recurring + one-time payments. Use your own Stripe account — your end-users see your brand on checkout.
- Clerk
Drop-in auth, user management, organizations.
- Cloudflare R2
S3-compatible object storage.
- Convex
Realtime backend & database.
- Resend
Developer-first transactional email.
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Founder stories
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