I Built a Full Digital Marketplace from Scratch with Laravel 12 — Here's How It Compares to Envato, Gumroad & Lemon Squeezy

I Built a Full Digital Marketplace from Scratch with Laravel 12 There's a moment every developer knows well — you're paying 30–50% commission to a marketplace platform, watching your earnings get sliced before they even hit your wallet, and you think: "I could build this." So I did. This is the story of Codorra — a fully functional digital goods marketplace built with Laravel 12, Inertia.js, React, and Stripe. Multi-role, multi-panel, with a review workflow, author payouts, refund management, and even an in-browser HTML documentation viewer. Let me walk you through what I built, how it works, and how it stacks up against the platforms that inspired it. What Is Codorra? Codorra is a marketplace for digital products — think WordPress themes, UI kits, scripts, plugins. Authors upload items, reviewers quality-check them, buyers purchase and download instantly. It's not a side project prototype. It has: Multi-role auth — Buyer, Author, Reviewer, Admin, Super Admin Full review workflow — Ite