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The three Rails multi-tenancy patterns look interchangeable in tutorials. They're not. Pick row-level with acts_as_tenant for 95% of SaaS builds, schema-per-tenant only for compliance, and database-per-tenant only on Rails 8 + SQLite. Here's the framework, the production gotchas, and the migration paths between them.
Solid Queue ships as the Rails 8 default. Sidekiq is 12 years of production-hardened tooling. Neither is universally right. Here's the 4-question framework we use to decide, the production numbers nobody publishes, and the migration playbook that actually works.
Most marketplace metric guides list 20+ KPIs and leave you to figure out which ones matter. Here are the 5 that predict whether your marketplace survives — in priority order, with the real numbers from a vacation rental marketplace at $40k/month GMV.
Sharetribe Flex's three customization tiers — config, template, Integration API — each have a sweet spot and a wall you'll hit. Here are the patterns we've shipped on a vacation rental marketplace, plus the customizations that look easy and turn into 4-month migrations.
Stripe Connect's KYC happy path is the US. Outside it — India, Brazil, Mexico — the verification fields are different, the timelines are longer, and Custom accounts are sometimes invite-only. Here's the per-country implementation guide we wish we'd had on day one of three international marketplace launches.
The chicken-and-egg trap kills more two-sided marketplaces than bad code. Here's the supply-seeding, niche-narrowing, concierge-onboarding playbook we use to take a marketplace from launch day to atomic density in 8-12 weeks.
Most cost articles wave around "$50K to $400K" with no detail. Useless. Here's the actual line-item breakdown — discovery hours, dev hours, infrastructure, payment fees, the Google Maps tax, and ongoing costs at 1K, 10K, and 100K monthly active users.
Most Sharetribe-vs-custom comparisons are biased — written by Sharetribe, by agencies that hate it, or by founders who only tried one path. We've shipped both. Here's the 8-question framework that tells you which path actually fits your marketplace, with real numbers.
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