Competitive Lens · ●●● fully present · ○ absent
Each peer occupies part of the territory the venture would sit in. The empty column is the opening.
| Peer | Curation | Designer Roster | Fulfillment Network | License Registry— empty column | Hobbyist Permission |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MakerWorldBambu Lab · 38.91M visits / mo | ●● | ●●● | ○ Crowdfunding signal only |
● | ●●● Bambu owners only |
| MyMiniFactory + ThingiversePost Feb-2026 acquisition | ●●● SoulCrafted editorial |
●●● | ●● Manufacturing program |
●● | ●● Ambivalent |
| Cults3DIndependent · 80% designer royalty | ●● | ●●● | ●● All3DP / Craftcloud routing |
●●● Per-designer licenses |
● Paywall default |
| PrintablesPrusa Research · 20.32M visits / mo | ●● | ●●● | ○ | ● Store layer only |
●●● Prusa owners only |
| Craftcloud / Treatstock / 3DOSFulfillment-first stack | ○ | ○ Designs treated as commodity |
●●● | ○ | — No designs to permission |
| Yeggi / ThangsSearch / meta-aggregator | ● Search-only |
○ | ○ | ○ | ● |
Reading the table
No peer scores ● or better on all five dimensions. Two of six (MyMiniFactory, Cults3D) cover four. The empty column is the License Registry dimension — no incumbent has packaged a public, queryable license registry that would let Etsy and Amazon Handmade honor third-party licenses as proof-of-license. The empty intersection is Curation + Fulfillment under one roof, which echoes Gap 1 in the editorial.
MakerWorld and Printables are platform-owned by hardware makers — their Hobbyist Permission scores carry only inside their own owner base. MyMiniFactory has the editorial position (SoulCrafted) and the start of a fulfillment move (the manufacturing program), but its hobbyist permission softened after the Thingiverse acquisition. The fulfillment-first stack (Craftcloud, Treatstock, 3DOS) treats designs as commodity and never built a curation layer.