Scalability, Flexibility, and Customizability of Open Source

Sharetribe Go Community Edition
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Hey everyone! as a precursor, I’m relatively clueless when it comes to web development. These questions may have super obvious answers but I’m still needing help

My name is Quinn Alexander. I own the p2p menswear marketplace Threadhabits. (threadhabits.com)

Originally, we were using Sharetribe’s hosted SAAS but due to the lack of customizability, wanted to try to utilize the open source provided on Git. Right now I have a developer working on getting the open source set up on our server with Digital Ocean but we’ve run into a million problems.

1. My developer said the nodejs problem we’re having setting up our site might just be happening with Digital Ocean specifically and it may work to switch over to Heroku. Has anyone had any experience having Sharetribe’s open source hosted on Digital Ocean?

2. I’m trying to have our site look more like Grailed, Tradesy, and Farfetch. Using Sharetribe’s open source, do you think its possible to code our way to look more like the UI and front end of those websites? Clean images and layout, no rounded edges, different fonts, etc.

Thank you so much for any insight. Anything is helpful!

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  1. To my understanding, there are many people who have installed Sharetribe on Digital Ocean. However, I’m not very familiar with Digital Ocean, so I’ll let someone else to answer about the details.

  2. I quickly took a look at Grailed and Tradesy. It seems that the page structure in those sites seems to be pretty similar to Sharetribe: Categories and filters on the left, listing images on the right. Layout changes like disabling rounded corners, changing font e.g. should be doable.