“Mentor Cru right now I would call it feature complete you could say like it's a perfectly fine marketplace... I'm actually the only one writing code and I do it about two days per week maybe not even... we get by by doing maybe like 10 hours of coding per week as a company”

Declare your marketplace feature-complete and invest in systems instead

MentorCruise as a 5-person, ~$40K MRR business writes roughly 10 hours of code per week total. The trap is treating the marketplace like a SaaS and shipping endless features. Instead, get to feature-complete fast (booking flow, chat, billing, dashboard) and reinvest the engineering capacity into operational systems — moderation, vetting, mentor success, billing edge cases. Each system improvement benefits every user; each feature usually benefits a handful.