// Hacker Noon · 19 February 2026

How We Recruited and Vetted Our First 3000+ Service Providers on a Marketplace

Scaling a marketplace isn’t about demand — it’s about turning supply from manual chaos into a system. We rebuilt our onboarding funnel from scratch, filtered 5,000+ applicants down to 400 reliable providers, and learned how to scale trust without burning margins.

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