Anvil

Marketplace, our own product · Owned and operated by Anvil

The leading digital collectibles marketplace

Client
Wayup (an Anvil product)
Sector
Marketplace, our own product
Year
2023
The leading digital collectibles marketplace
Leadingmarketplace in its category
Real-timemarket data and activity
We own itbuilt and run by Anvil

The challenge

A marketplace lives or dies on trust and speed. Buyers need real-time prices and activity, sellers need instant listings and offers, and the whole thing has to stay fast and correct under constant load. We did not build this for a client. We built it for ourselves and put our name on it.

How we thought about it

Owning the product means we feel every rough edge our users feel. So we built a proprietary real-time indexing pipeline to keep the market data always live, and designed the buying flow so a first-time user can search, make an offer, and check out without friction.

What we built

Two-sided marketplace
Search, listings, offers, featured campaigns, cart and instant checkout, in one fast interface.
Real-time market data
A proprietary indexing pipeline streams live sales, offers, and activity the moment they happen.
Built to scale
Production infrastructure and observability that hold up under constant marketplace load.
Run like a business
Anvil owns Wayup and operates it as its own company. We live with the uptime, the support, and the roadmap.

Capabilities demonstrated

Two-sided marketplaceReal-time data pipelinePayments and checkoutProduction operations

The result

Wayup is proof Anvil can build a real product and stand behind it in production. We designed it, built it, and we run it every day: the live market data, the checkout, the uptime, the support, and the roadmap. It grew into the leading marketplace in its category.

  • The leading marketplace in its category, designed, built, and operated end to end by Anvil.
  • A proprietary real-time indexing pipeline keeps prices and activity live the moment they happen, so buyers and sellers trust what they see.
  • Production infrastructure and observability hold up under constant load, with the uptime and support of a business we own rather than a project we shipped and left.
  • The engine behind Wayup became reusable Anvil infrastructure, later powering products like the C-Hub loyalty marketplace, so clients inherit proven foundations.

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