What is Tangram & what can it do?

What is possible with Tangram?

Tangram enables marketplace founders with an MVP for 100x cheaper and faster than traditional development. 

With ~ 1-2  weeks of training it is possible to build a “true” custom multi-vendor marketplace (equipped with user accounts, automatic payment splitting with Stripe Connect, custom data fields/objects, a custom front-end design, etc.) in ~ 1 hr, on average. 
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How does Tangram work?

1. We utilize Webflow.com to quickly build custom front-end designs without coding. We can provide components and templates in Webflow that come pre-configured to work with Tangram.
2. We send data from our Postgres databases via Javascript/HTML attributes to do text replacement on the Webflow pages. 
3. The marketplace logic can be defined in the Tangram no-code tool (e.g. listing types, user roles, permissions, navigation, etc.) 
4. Additional customization and integrations can be added on top of our webhooks system or API. Custom data objects or “structures” can also be created.
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Why Tangram? E.g. over Sharetribe, Bubble, Softr, or custom development?

Vs Sharetribe:

• Tangram allows pages to be designed in Webflow
• Tangram does not require a developer to make customizations
• Tangram eliminates the need to spin up an application and tech-stack for every marketplace project without compromising on the ability to add custom coded functionality on top of it.
• Tangram offers in-app chat 

Vs Bubble: 

• Tangram offers marketplace-specific functionality
• This makes it faster to learn & implement marketplaces in Tangram
• Otherwise the learning curve with bubble is very steep and is similar in difficulty to learning a programming language
• Tangram allows pages to be designed in Webflow

Vs Softr:

• Tangram offers marketplace-specific functionality
• Tangram allows pages to be designed in Webflow

Tangram provides a REST API and webhooks to easily interact with users, listings, transactions, reviews, and custom objects.

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