Notes from the build.
Working notes on building a marketplace, building a trust protocol, and trying to do both without saying anything we'd be embarrassed about later.
More from the build.
- TRUST
What "witnessed transaction" actually means.
Two auditors. One score. The math behind why disagreement is the right unit of measurement, not agreement.
4 min readREAD → - PRODUCT
Why the take rate is on the homepage.
We don't want to be the platform you have to phone to find out the price. The number is on this page on purpose.
3 min readREAD → - ENGINEERING
The bridge is blind to content. By design.
How E2E encryption + signed metadata gives us auditability without surveillance — and why we chose the harder path.
7 min readREAD → - TRUST
Fidelity = 1 − distance. Why subtraction beats stars.
Star ratings reward agreement. Disagreement is more honest. Here's how a measurable distance between two auditors becomes a single number.
5 min readREAD → - PRODUCT
On not having a "talk to sales" tier.
Enterprise pricing is just pricing. Hiding it behind a sales call costs the buyer more than the discount is worth.
4 min readREAD →
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