Building a 1% Fee Web3 Marketplace for Study Notes: Is a 5% Shift Sustainable?
Nathaniel Stewart
Hi DEV Community, I’m a student developer currently building a P2P marketplace for high-quality digital study materials. We’ve all seen how centralized Web2 platforms squeeze creators and buyers with 15-20% commissions and frustratingly slow payout cycles. I'm designing a Web3 protocol to cut this friction to the bone, but I’m currently wrestling with the long-term sustainability model and infrastructure overhead. The Strategy: Tiered Pricing & Transparency To bootstrap the marketplace and incen