The Mad Space
A bilingual print-on-demand marketplace: creators submit their work, it becomes apparel, and every sale pays them a commission, payment, production and tracking fully automated.
01 Summary
The Mad Space turns creators' artwork into print-on-demand apparel and pays a commission on every sale. I'm CTO: I own the architecture, development and integrations (Stripe payments, Gelato production, emails, tracking). The product is in production, bilingual and multi-currency.
02 The product
A marketplace where creators offer designs that become print-on-demand products. Buyers order, creators earn a commission, and both production and shipping are automated end to end.
03 My role (CTO)
I own all of the engineering: architecture, application development, payment and production integrations, security and reliability. The founder owns product, brand and creator relations.
- Custom Next.js architecture (32 pages · 37 API route modules)
- Stripe (payments) and Gelato (production/shipping) integrations
- Data model, commissions and order tracking
- Deployment, transactional email and operations
04 Reach
Built for a broad audience from day one.
- Bilingual FR/EN
- 4 currencies (CAD · USD · EUR · GBP)
- Canada + international shipping
- Built-in blog / content for acquisition
05 State & results
In production. The metrics below describe the scope of what is built and deployed, not sales figures.
06 Takeaways
Leading the engineering of a real commercial product: balancing shipping fast with building solid, taking real money reliably, and keeping a codebase you can evolve without breaking it.