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Large-scale community and marketplace development

Community & Marketplace Platforms

Grow your business on the power of community

Community and marketplace platform development is the end-to-end build of large-scale community products and marketplaces — membership management, content systems, rankings, and payment integration included. TreeSoop's KAIST- and POSTECH-trained engineers design high-availability architectures that stay stable with tens of thousands of concurrent users, backed by a 4.92/5 rating on Wishket, Korea's largest dev-outsourcing platform.

Pain Points

Are you facing these challenges?

Off-the-shelf tools hit a customization ceiling

WordPress, Cafe24, and similar off-the-shelf solutions feel convenient at first — but as you grow, customization limits stack up and migration costs climb sharply.

Performance degrades as concurrency grows

When an event or viral moment sends traffic surging, the service slows down or goes offline — and the new users you just acquired are gone.

Payments and settlement are complex to build

Marketplace payment logic — seller settlement, fee calculation, payment gateway integration, refund handling — is complex to implement and even harder to maintain.

Solutions

How we solve it

Scalable community architecture

We design your platform on microservices or a modular monolith, so each capability can scale independently as the community grows.

Gamification and engagement systems

Points, badges, levels, rankings, and notification systems lift community participation and bring users back more often.

Integrated payments and settlement

We build the full payment infrastructure: integration with Toss Payments, PortOne, and other Korean payment gateways, automated seller settlement, and tax-invoice issuance.

Real-time features (chat and notifications)

WebSocket-powered live chat, real-time notifications, and activity feeds keep conversations flowing inside your community.

Process

How we work

Use Cases

Where it's put to work

Education

Expert knowledge-sharing marketplace

An education marketplace where instructors publish courses and learners purchase and take them.

500 instructors and 15,000 learners within 6 months of launch
Real Estate

Direct landlord-tenant platform

A real-estate community platform integrating rental listings, contract drafting, and secure payments — no brokers in between.

100% savings on brokerage fees; passed 2,000 new listings per month
Pet Care

Community app for pet owners

A pet-owner super-app combining information sharing, nearby owner matching, pet-sitter booking, and a supplies marketplace.

50,000 DAU and ₩300M (≈ $210K) in monthly transaction volume
Results

Proven by the Numbers

100K+

Concurrent users supported

On our high-availability architecture

99.95%

Service availability

Under 22 minutes of downtime per month

3x

Community engagement lift

After introducing gamification

0.5%

Payment error rate

With stable payment gateway integration

Portfolio

Related Projects

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on the architecture, but with serverless and horizontally scaling designs we build for hundreds of thousands of concurrent users — and we verify capacity with load testing.
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