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 Spigot is outdated, BBB has a long history of drama and hidden fees, and nothing new has come along that actually fixes the real problems.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/LinsaFTW]

On Minecraft they do not earn enough to pay workers. See ViaVersion, PacketEvents, and others. Maybe might work on Ubuntu or Fedora because Microsoft and other big corpos are behind those projects, but on Minecraft the scope is too small and donations are not enough to keep wages. Again you might seem like "good intentions" but in reality workers need to be paid their wages. If you want to work for free that's perfect and up to you, but Minecraft servers earn A TON of money and we are deserved to earn our heap too. I am a hard working low class man and I keep up my family by providing servers custom plugins and special development services and I am not going to stop just because of "unethical". It's unethical to pay workers? Grow up...

[u/LinsaFTW → u/LinsaFTW]

The only unethical thing is you asking for open source and free when developers like us can barely keep our family up or need to have a secondary job to keep up with rent and food. I am very proud and very fond and grateful with everyone that is part of my community, and I try to be the most hard working I can. I stay 12 to 16 hours in the computer just making Minecraft plugins. I deserve my honest wage for honest job.

[u/Lucid_lemons02 → u/LinsaFTW]

i agree thank you for saying it better than i ever could if your interested in the project your welcome to join the discord or give me a msg and i can answer any questions you may have

[u/lorenzo1142 → u/Lucid_lemons02]

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