docs(maker-platform): Tier-5 cleanup — drop duplicate TAM header, date the Etsy stat
- remove the duplicated '**How big is the opportunity (TAM)?**' header - add the 2023 baseline to the Etsy active-seller decline (~9M (2023) → ~5.6M) so the load-bearing stat carries its timeframe (sources in memo §12) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ incumbents stood on each turn into anchors — which is the opening:
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unassailable. The answer: incumbents got greedy and extractive and **eroded their own
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network stickiness**, so a values-aligned alternative can now contest a network moat
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that used to be untouchable. Etsy's reckoning is that erosion made concrete — its
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active-seller base fell ~9M → ~5.6M as it purged for quality, while AI-generated and
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active-seller base fell from ~9M (2023) to ~5.6M as it purged for quality, while AI-generated and
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recast fakes flood marketplaces, leaving verified provenance scarcer, more valuable,
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and surrounded by disaffected makers to recruit.
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@@ -587,8 +587,6 @@ first for four reasons:
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- **"Small businesses are really just people."** Serving makers directly is the mission
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— treat humans as humans — applied where commerce most turned them into accounts.
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**How big is the opportunity (TAM)?**
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**How big is the opportunity (TAM)?**
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The honest unit of TAM here is **makers, not the dollar size of the craft market** —
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because the platform earns per-maker subscription + referral spread, never a cut of
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