Here is my take:
Congrats, you made a marketplace site from scratch. It works and that's all that matters. Design elements don't really matter at this stage. You have a functional product. Everything else can be changed or improved with time.
Now here comes the hard part: How are you going to get people to it?
Building this type of site requires you to both get vendors and customers at the same time and enough people coming in at once for the site to take off on its own. This is usually where most projects fail. The whole "build it and they will come" approach I see so many people use doesn't work anymore.
I'm curious to see what your competitive edge is to get momentum going.
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