The good ol' Sharetribe Go—some folks might remember it fondly as the open-source marketplace lifesaver. It's the classic, but just a heads up, it's sitting in the rocking chair now as it’s no longer actively maintained. Think of it as the granddaddy who paved the way for the new kid on the block, "The New Sharetribe." For those just tuning in, Sharetribe Go was a pretty big deal back in its heyday. Built on a Ruby and Rails stack with a sprinkling of React and jQuery, it was a solid choice for anyone looking to launch a marketplace without having to whip up any code from scratch. And if you did want to get down and dirty with some custom code, it had you covered too. Fire it up on Heroku, store images on Amazon S3, handle jobs with delayed_job, and voila! You had a fully operational marketplace. The setup might test your patience a bit—installing Ruby, MySQL, and Node, running through those rake commands to get everything cooking—but once you got past those hurdles, you were good to go. Throw in the ability to accept payments via Stripe (and hopefully PayPal sometime down the road), a custom landing page editor, and robust support for localization, and you had yourself a pretty sweet deal. Not to mention, it’s all open-source and sits under the Sharetribe Community Public License. Sure, times have changed and "The New Sharetribe" might be the way forward for a fuss-free, no-code-required marketplace, but it's worth tipping your hat to Sharetribe Go for walking so the new guy can run. Dig into the GitHub repo if you want to get a taste of what the old guard was all about. Even though it’s not getting the love of active maintenance, there’s a lot you can learn and leverage if you’re the DIY type. So, if you’re feeling nostalgic or just love poking around a gem from the past, give Sharetribe Go a whirl. Who knows, it might just spark an idea or project that'll take your next marketplace endeavor to the next level.