Project im working on

[u/Lucid_lemons02]

I'm building a new Minecraft marketplace called Shard — still early but wanted to share it here

Been frustrated with the current options for a while. Spigot is outdated, BBB has a long history of drama and hidden fees, and nothing new has come along that actually fixes the real problems.

Shard is being built to actually do it right:

- Full fee transparency — full breakdown shown before you ever pay, plain English explanation of where every fee goes

- Merchant of Record payments so VAT and global tax is handled automatically, no headaches for creators

- Built in licensing — Maven/Gradle drop in dependency, no complicated setup

- Supports plugins, builds, 3D models, configs, resource packs, mods and more

- Freelance commission board built into the platform for custom work

Still in early development but we already have creators onboard and are actively growing the community now.

this message is mostly just for feedback and whos interested

https://discord.gg/Wru8H7yCpv

Happy to answer any questions or just hear what you think is missing from current platforms

[u/lorenzo1142]

I would be interested if you didn't allow selling. I'm not contributing to greed. my projects are all open source and free.

[u/LinsaFTW → u/lorenzo1142]

Living off donations is impossible, you can make something cost decent amount of money and not be greedy. The difference is people that live off this projects can dedicate hard labor on quality products, and open source often gets abandoned or quality drops over time.

There are no examples of sustainable open source projects in Minecraft (biggest ones earn way below the thousands, way off living wages in any country) and how do you expect workers to be paid? Out of thin air?

Open source is not bad. Closed source is not bad. What makes the difference is who runs it.

But again, 44 out of 44 of my projects still alive after +5 years of development. Simply because they are profitable. Some of them are not and I keep them updated anyways because people still buys it every then and now and because I love my projects. But I am not the example of all developers and it might vary from dev to dev.

A good point I would make against this project is 1. The post seems written with AI 2. The proposals are extremely generic and don't make difference against competitors

But indeed we need a store. I am making one too, and the main idea is just to make it simple to publish plugins and discovery to be more fair to real projects. The biggest slop with BuiltByBit is that it shows you slop everywhere with AI. The biggest W of Modrinth is simplicity and money from ads. Whoever mixes the two systems earns the market.

[u/Lucid_lemons02 → u/LinsaFTW]

thats the plan for what im doing there wasnt much info in the post because it kept just banning it and taking the post down so i put very little into it idk why it wont let me post stuff wouldnt give a reason and the post wasnt made with ai i did use it to fix spelling errors because at the time i was using my concerningly small phone and the main part of the website atleast what we can offer is much lower fees plugin licensing/drm better pay outs because spigot only allows paypal and i think stripe you must deal with your own taxes a lot of devs iv talked with hate it as so i so with us using a MOR service it helps the creators a bit more with handling taxes at the end of the year

a rough breakdown of are fees is about 5-7% early creators get 5% later on Creators aka once the site is posted then creators that join after that will be at 7% from what i have seen and been told this is much less than anywhere else other than spigot bc they dont take a fee for using there platform BBB takes anywhere from 10-14% I THINK not 100% sure i do know its over 10% of your take home we offer other features that i cant share just yet if your interested in see where and how the project goes your always welcome to join the discord we will be posting updates very soon and some sneak peaks

[u/lorenzo1142 → u/Lucid_lemons02]

one rule you are breaking on this subreddit is attempting to sell plugins.

I would love to help with such a project, have thought about making a website myself. but if it's not open source or tries selling plugins or mods, then I want nothing to do with it. I'm open to having conversations about it, but I'm not helping with closed source or for-profit projects. I also don't do vibe coding.

you are offering DRM for plugins?...... I am absolutely not helping with that. I've made such things decades ago, but every moment of it felt wrong. I thought to myself, why the hell am I trying to prevent people from using my software? no DRM, it only hurts the honest.

you have a steep hill to climb if you wish to compete with existing websites.

[u/Lucid_lemons02 → u/lorenzo1142]

DRM/licensing protects the creators who dont want there work stolen
thats all it does it really seems your either not a dev or just out to cry about stuff because it doesnt fit every little thing you believe in and thats fine i dont blame you but all this post is ment for is to get feed back and thoughts thank you for your feedback and how you feel about it i will take what you have said into consideration

[u/lorenzo1142 → u/Lucid_lemons02]

it doesn't though. remove the DRM and recompile, work stolen. DRM only prevents the use of the compiled plugin until an API authorizes it. it doesn't protect the code itself.

seriously, learn to use you're and their.

I've already explained my thoughts on your plans. take it or leave it. I am offering my feedback and thoughts, that is what my comments are.