What is Blockmarkd?

I'm a heavy Pinterest user, which means I've got a pretty good read on what it's great at and where it falls apart. It's a place for everyone: endless things to look at, endless things to save. That's the strength, and it's also the whole problem. AI slop, surface-level builds, no real way to filter, a platform that was simply never built for us. None of that is Pinterest's fault. It's still a problem.

And it isn't just Pinterest. The demand for Minecraft build inspiration is enormous — it's just scattered to the wind. There are build Discords with hundreds of thousands of people in them. r/MinecraftBuilds is in the millions. There are solo builders on Instagram with 300k followers and YouTube channels pulling millions of views on nothing but build inspiration. All of that, and still no single place actually built to hold it, search it, and credit it. You save something incredible and then it's just gone — buried in a Discord under two years of messages, or a Twitter bookmark you'll never scroll back to.

The one place that's supposed to own this, Planet Minecraft, was built for a different era — back when the point of Minecraft online was downloading someone else's world: a challenge map, a dropper, a command-block adventure. That era faded, partly because the game itself changed. The block palette and the building tools exploded, and people stopped downloading worlds to play and started building their own. What they want now isn't a .zip, it's inspiration.

And as the game shifted, every other piece of the old landscape got claimed by something sharper. NameMC took skins. Modrinth took mods.

Builds are the orphan nobody re-homed.

That's the exact hole Blockmarkd walks into, and it's the same move Modrinth pulled on CurseForge: the incumbent got old, the demand never left, and a focused tool that actually respects the thing wins. I'm not trying to out-Planet-Minecraft Planet Minecraft at the five other things it does. I just want to be the place for build inspiration — so completely that nobody thinks to look anywhere else.

So what does “built for Minecraft” actually mean?

There's one more thing that matters as much as the no-AI line: every build is credited to whoever actually built it.

If I can't track down the builder, the site just says “unknown” instead of slapping someone else's name on it. And if a build is credited to you, you can claim it — and from then on it lives on your profile and points wherever you want: your channel, your socials, your Patreon, whatever. The traffic goes to you, not to me.

I'm not running a scrape farm here. Real builds, real builders, full stop.

Crediting people is the baseline. What I actually care about is making this a place builders can do well — and that half of Blockmarkd gets just as much of my attention as the search does.

Here's the situation for a Minecraft builder right now: your best work is scattered across a YouTube channel, a TikTok, and a Twitter the algorithm forgot about three weeks ago. Those platforms are massive, but none of them were built for you, and turning one good post into something that actually sticks is miserable. I want Blockmarkd to be where all of that lands — where you post your stuff and the people who care about it can find you and stay, instead of scrolling on in four seconds.

So the creator side gets real tools, not a “yeah, we'll add that eventually” bullet point. Analytics that actually tell you something. Ways to talk to the people following you. And money, when it comes — ad revenue, donations, Patreon-style subscriptions, paid world and schematic downloads, plus whatever else I get convinced is worth adding (my ideas box is open).

And when the money does land, the splits lean toward you, hard. The reason I'm building any of this is that every other platform takes the work and pockets the upside, and that's just backwards to me. I won't quote you a percentage I haven't built yet, but the principle isn't negotiable:

If creators don't come out ahead here, I did it wrong.

That's the balance, and it's the whole point. One place that earns its spot whether you're three hours deep into planning a castle or trying to make rent off the builds you put out.

Right now, Blockmarkd is in closed early access. There's a curated starter set of builds on it, all credited with links back to their creators, the first outside testers are in, and I'm reaching out to builders one at a time. It's young, and it's going to change a lot.

Which is the fun part, honestly. You get to tell me what it should be — there's a suggestion box and a bug button, and they genuinely steer what I build next.

For what it's worth, this took me over two years and two earlier versions to figure out, and I built most of it myself — a video editor and designer, not a programmer, with a ton of help from my dad and a few friends. It's a real, searchable, trustworthy home for Minecraft builds, for the people looking for them and the people making them, made by someone who could not stop thinking about it.

If you make something with it, tell me. I'd love to see it.