A Web3-based platform that empowers artists and creators by enabling them to embed smart contracts into their digital or physical works. This ensures automatic royalty payments on secondary sales and facilitates token-gated access to exclusive content, merchandise, or fan communities, democratizing value distribution.
Opportunity5.4
Why now
The emergence of Web3 technology, particularly NFTs and smart contracts, provides the infrastructure to address long-standing issues of artist compensation and fan engagement, creating a more 'fair' and 'democratic' creator economy. The trend of 'more entrepreneurs' includes artists commercializing their work.
Market gap
A lack of an integrated, user-friendly platform that combines automated royalty distribution on resales with flexible token-gated experiences for artists, extending beyond basic NFT minting to encompass broader fan engagement and monetization.
Business fit
Type
Platform/SaaS (Web3 enabled)
Target
Artists, musicians, designers, content creators, cultural institutions, and loyal fans/collectors.
Revenue
High (transaction fees, premium features)
Founder
Web3 developers, legal experts (IP/royalties), artist advocates, community builders.
Scores
Problem
9.0
Feasibility
7.0
Why now
9.0
Go-to-market
6.0
Confidence
9.0
Proof signals
The example of Harold Town's art and the family not receiving royalties on resales, highlighting the problem Web3 could solve.
Jimmy Butler's Big Face Coffee NFTs and Bobby Hundreds' Atom Bomb Squad NFTs providing gated access for exclusive drops.
The 'starving artist' problem and Web3's potential to make it easier for artists to make a living.
The observation that 'more people are now commercializing their art, their thing, their widget, their product'.
Keyword demand
Keyword
Volume
Growth
Web3 for artists
10/mo
0% YoY
NFT royalties
50/mo
-71% YoY
smart contract royalties
10/mo
0% YoY
token-gated access
10/mo
-100% YoY
US English Google Ads volume from DataForSEO; growth uses returned monthly search history.
Source episode
Forget Zero Sum, Be Positive Sum with Harley Finkelstein | Where It Happens58:59
the fact that his family doesn't get anything from that resale even if i resell it for double or triple what i bought it for which i might be able to because the price of his art has gone up dramatically um that seems weird and what i think i like about web3 generally is that it feels far more to use this term democratic it feels far more fair the fact that i can you know uh if i were able to embed some smart contract and that 10 percent of every of the resale price goes back to the family