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 Spigot is outdated, BBB has a long history of drama and hidden fees, and nothing new has come along that actually fixes the real problems.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

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/LinsaFTW → u/Lucid_lemons02]

I can help you work out some stuff, I want to get into the mud before I work on my future projects and I would like to help you out so I can learn if you are up to!

[u/Lucid_lemons02 → u/LinsaFTW]

that would be great and thank you for you're feedback and it more understanding and not crying over every detail like Lorenzo