Marketplace Rescue & Code Audits
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According to our client telemetry and inbound scoping calls since 2019, approximately 25% of all marketplace inquiries are not greenfield builds—they are marketplace rescues. A founder has 300 to 500 pre-seed listings, eager early users, but zero live transactions because their prior agency or offshore freelance team disappeared, broke the Stripe Connect webhooks, or created an unmaintainable codebase.
If your marketplace exhibits any of the following symptoms, continuing down the current development path will burn runway without unlocking revenue:
We do not operate with finger-pointing. We follow an engineered protocol designed to protect your runway and get you to live, billable transactions within 14 days:
We sign a mutual NDA and gain read-only access to your Git repository, hosting environment, and Stripe Dashboard. Within 48 hours, an actual senior engineer (not a sales rep) inspects:
We provide a written diagnostic report separating "Must-Fix to Transact" from "Nice-to-Have Features". You receive an exact hour range with a hard ceiling and published hourly rates ($150/hr for senior engineering specialists, or $6,000 for dedicated 2-week sprints). We commit code directly into your repository from Day 1.
We test payouts in sandbox and staging environments, verify edge cases across mobile web, and perform a zero-downtime cutover. Every line of code written by Horizon Labs is backed by our written warranty: if a bug emerges in work we delivered, we fix it at zero cost.
Horizon Labs has engineered and rescued premier marketplaces across North America:
Do not let another week slip by with broken transactions. Talk directly with a technical founder today to evaluate your codebase.
Yes. We routinely execute mutual NDAs prior to repository or Stripe Dashboard access. Your intellectual property and user data remain 100% confidential.
Always. We do not work in walled gardens or proprietary environments. All commits land directly in your GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository under clear branch protection rules.
We provide an honest "we're not the right fit" or explain plainly if rebuilding a focused slice on Sharetribe or a clean Next.js/Node stack is cheaper and faster than untangling bad legacy debt. You get objective engineering guidance, not a sales pitch.
In most rescue situations, we can initiate repository review within 24 to 48 hours of brief submission.
Tell us what you're building. After an intro call with our founders, you'll hear back within 72 business hours: a written scope with an hour range and a hard ceiling, or the questions we need answered first.