Traktion Sports Marketplace

Traktion started as a prototype on Replit: a Vendure backend, a Next.js storefront, a hosted Postgres and object storage that could not be moved, and a worker process that nobody had started. It already had real data, 887 products from 32 sellers, and no path to production.

A marketplace also asks more of the platform than a store does. Every seller needs an isolated catalogue, their own shipping rules and their own payout, and buyers expect one search across all of them.

We moved the platform onto our own infrastructure: a dedicated container for the app, shared PostgreSQL, Redis and MinIO, Docker, and a Cloudflare tunnel in front. Asset serving was rewired from the prototype's storage to MinIO. The worker that runs search indexing and email was wired into the start sequence with a watchdog, a 13,000-job indexing backlog that crashed it was cleared, and database ownership and sequences were repaired so the application could boot its own schema.

On the commerce side the build keeps Vendure's channel model for seller isolation, Stripe Connect for per-seller payouts with a platform commission, and an enquiry flow for equipment that is sold on quote rather than on cart.

Traktion runs on staging with its full catalogue, ready for the commercial launch. Payments and transactional email switch on when the business is.