Epic Games Launcher not working

When I opened the Epic Games launcher for the first time where it should start the update there was a yellow exclamation mark saying that it was having trouble connecting and would continue to retry? I had just downloaded the launcher and can’t seem to find the solution to this problem.

I do not know how to fix this, but you can open ue4 without the launcher. Just go to the folder of your project, and dubble click on the ue4project file

Then the marketplace will be unavailable. I have same problem, I can’t find how to fix this.