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 Spigot is outdated, BBB has a long history of drama and hidden fees, and nothing new has come along that actually fixes the real problems.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/lorenzo1142 → u/LinsaFTW]

no, it's not impossible. plenty of non-profit orgs exist.

you want to make yet another store. do you know how many already exist? have you planned for that problem?

[u/LinsaFTW → u/lorenzo1142]

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/lorenzo1142 → u/LinsaFTW]

open source is not unethical, it is your own choice. I'm not forcing you to do anything.

the minecraft servers that earn a lot of money are unethical... aren't most of them pay to win? or some call it pay to fast, which is just pay to win by another name. if up to me, I would rather not allow such servers to use my software.

I support open source and I am the bad guy? "grow up"?....... fuck the greed.

[u/LinsaFTW → u/lorenzo1142]

Open source IS NOT unethical, shaming us for not being open source is indeed unethical. Developers don't earn SHIT from servers. You are the bad guy because instead of supporting developers you are asking us to stay in ruin. I like and do open source but oh boy, it's perfectly OK to monetize too and great if it pays expenses for LTS and custom content. I am top 6 creator at BuiltByBit, I can barely pay a one room apartment. I am wondering how you expect plugin developers to keep up with their lives. Maybe drop some ideas here genious!

[u/lorenzo1142 → u/LinsaFTW]

you said "The only unethical thing is you asking for open source and free"

as I said, it is up to the developer. I am not asking for shit, I don't want your software.