Looking to build and launch an MVP – Need advice on what tech platform to build on, and direction on cost.
I’m building a marketplace site for the private health space (non-technical).
I’ve researched this myself but want opinions from technical people.
Which platforms can handle what I’m building, which do it best, which are best for cost/speed, which could (bonus) scale without requiring a rebuild if I gain traction.
The site would have a handful of pages:
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Home
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Search Treatments
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Search Clinics
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Search Providers
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Patient Sign-up page
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Clinic Sign-up page
And the ability to search, combining multiple filters:
Location / Radius
Treatment
Practitioner Type
Rating
Practitioners and Clinic pages should be linked.
SEO/structure:
Static, crawlable URLs
Schema
Fast loading speed
Based on capability, price etc. to get something decent up and running and start building traffic and users – what are my credible options to build this on and why?
Thanks
Posted by Simple_Basket2978
3 Comments
For your health marketplace MVP, you can either use **no-code platforms** like Bubble or Webflow to launch quickly and cheaply, or **Next.js with a database and search service** for better SEO and future scalability. Focus first on **search, signups, and listings** to validate users. Once it gains traction, you can scale without rebuilding the whole system.
I’m a rails developer so naturally I will lean into Rails, for some background I used to be a nurse and have a lot of health experience in Oncology, respigology and Ortho but it’s all bullshit now! I don’t want to build your app, but I can offer advice with no charge.
The requirements that you are asking for are pretty simple for a website and it’s something I am familiar with.
Bubble or Webflow + Airtable could work for this. Bubble handles the database/filtering stuff better but has a learning curve. Webflow is cleaner for SEO but you’ll need Airtable or something similar for the backend.
If you want proper scalability without rebuilding later, honestly just go with Next.js + Supabase. More upfront cost you’ll need a dev but won’t hit walls as fast.
For an MVP though, I’d probably start with Bubble. You can get something live in a few weeks and the filtering/search features are built in. SEO isn’t perfect but it’s good enough to validate your idea.