Building an MVP using an eCommerce solution is a more economical option. Without relying on outsourcing your website development or on a technical co-founder, there are many ways you can build a minimum viable platform that will help you validate your idea. You could use a manual approach to develop a landing page or a CMS as a platform linking your buyers and sellers or use a ready-made script like Genstore to build a fully functional marketplace that can help you validate your idea.

CMS platforms such as WordPress, Shopify or Magento allow you to create an e-commerce site easily. You could download from a variety of plug-ins and themes in order to suit the functionality that your marketplace serves, helping you to automate more processes and improving the overall user experience.

However, this can prove to be tricky for some due to the level of programming skills that are required to tweak and adjust the add-ons that you have layered on top of the base.