Community-oriented marketplace for ACEO collectors and artists
Listings support sealed offers, favorites, and shipping details
Buyer Dashboard with purchase history, favorites, and profile settings
Simple and easy page for listing new ACEOs
About This Project
TinyGallery is a marketplace for original miniature artwork (ACEOs), created to provide a more sustainable and community-oriented alternative to large marketplaces like Etsy and eBay. I designed, engineered, launched, and operate the platform entirely independently, spanning product strategy, brand direction, marketplace mechanics, payments, trust and safety, support operations, and growth.
Growth
3,000+ users
150+ paying subscribers
1,500+ sold listings
~$12k GMV in the first 4 months
~$950 MRR
2,500+ newsletter subscribers
Fully bootstrapped and profitable
Highlights
Designed and engineered the full platform architecture
Built seller onboarding, listings, checkout, bidding systems, subscriptions, moderation tooling, admin tooling, and Stripe payout infrastructure
Created hybrid live-bidding and sealed-offer marketplace mechanics with reservation systems and concurrency-safe checkout flows
Built extensive trust-and-safety systems for seller enforcement, disputes, moderation, refunds, and support tooling
Automated ~95% of operational support workflows
Established partnerships with independent art brands and built recurring artist-focused events and platform activations
Designed all UX/UI and brand direction
Leveraged AI-assisted workflows extensively to accelerate development and iteration
Challenges
The hardest parts have been keeping marketplace state consistent under real buyer/seller concurrency, designing bidding and reservation flows that feel fair, and building enough trust-and-safety infrastructure to operate independently without letting support work overwhelm product development.
What I Learned
This project has deepened my understanding of marketplace incentives, operational leverage, community trust, and the relationship between product mechanics and seller behavior.