PachaMart

I've been building PachaMart (pachaM.art), a marketplace for natural products sourced directly from producers.

Every layer between producer and buyer adds cost but not value. This drives me up a wall.

Here's the math nobody talks about:

• Producer sells raw good for $X

• Distributor buys, marks up 30-50%

• Wholesaler adds another 20-30%

• Retailer adds 40-60% more

• Buyer pays 2-3x what the producer got paid

Producer's margin: thin. Buyer's price: inflated. Nobody in the middle adds real value — just moves the product and takes a cut.

Cutting middlemen means:

• Producers earn more per sale (sometimes 2x)

• Buyers pay less than retail

• Product info stays accurate (no telephone-game distortion)

• Trust is direct, not mediated

The tradeoff: more logistics work falls on the platform. Someone has to solve what the middleman used to solve (aggregation, quality control, fulfillment) — just without stacking margins on top.

Building that layer without recreating the middleman problem is the actual hard part.

Curious if others building marketplaces have hit this — how do you handle logistics without becoming the middleman you're trying to remove?