I am a customer of numerous marketplaces, big and small. Realistically I can’t challenge them, they have no obligation t

These must-have tools for .NET developers will set you free from monotonous tasks and optimize your performance. Indeed, you don’t have to install all these tools at once, you can adjust them according to your project needs.,I’ve had a few conversations with real people in the lead up to writing this, and, I’ve written this. That’s a little bit of pressing. For what little difference it will make I try to use smaller marketplace platforms that are actively, obviously, supporting their suppliers. Like these: Bookshop, Medium (platform plug?) hive, Etsy,Next time you go to a marketplace, (Amazon, Airbnb, the supermarket, wherever) look around. Are they guilty of competing with their own suppliers? How well hidden is it? You can be sure they know what they’re doing. What can we do?,300,000 to 500,000: That’s how many fewer babies the think tank Brookings Institution projects will be born in the United States next year. Birth rates in the United States were already steadily declining before the pandemic, but the latest projection is a steep drop from the 3.7 million babies born in 2019, which was 1% lower than in 2018.,I am a supplier to this marketplace, Medium, and I intend to be a supplier to others in the future, hopefully to bookshops, hopefully to Airbnb, hopefully to the snapstore, and probably more. Something suppliers can do is raise the question with the platform, what are their policies, where do they stand on anti-competitive behaviour. Suppliers probably have the most to lose here so it’s more of a risk to take action.,Next time you go to a marketplace, (Amazon, Airbnb, the supermarket, wherever) look around. Are they guilty of competing with their own suppliers? How well hidden is it? You can be sure they know what they’re doing. What can we do?,Chocolatey is a free package manager for Windows. Chocolatey allows creating a software package and deploying it with the help of the tools you’ve already familiar with. This software management solution works with a wide range of Windows operating systems and cloud environments like Azure, and Amazon AWS.,Postman, the collaboration platform for API development, is an HTTP client used for creating APIs faster. Postman comes with wide support for all APIs and Schemas, including the possibility to make REST, SOAP, or plain HTTP calls. Collaboration platform allows inspecting even the largest responses. Developers can also easily run API tests there. The tool has a free version and Team, Business, or Enterprise editions.,Wide mapping support. Entity Developer includes visual editors for classes, properties, complex types, enums and supports various kinds of inheritances which makes mapping easier.,These must-have tools for .NET developers will set you free from monotonous tasks and optimize your performance. Indeed, you don’t have to install all these tools at once, you can adjust them according to your project needs.,Responsibility should lie with the platforms themselves. I am part of the platform that is snapcraft.io’s snap store. The app store for Linux. Whether you know what that is doesn’t matter. What matters is that there are people behind the platform aware of the issue and taking responsibility for creating a fair environment for all our users. It’s easy to say “we should put our newest software at the top of the store” but we shouldn’t.,Chocolatey is empowered by NuGet and PowerShell technology. Created by Microsoft, NuGet is a framework developed for the purposes of bundling code into “packages.” Besides NuGet Chocolatey uses PowerShell (a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework) to add some functionality that helps to install and update packages.,ReSharper is the Visual Studio extension for .NET Developers. It’s a great tool for beginners as well as experienced developers because it has many code editing helpers to transform and rearrange code and speed-up project delivery.,A platform is a place for customers and suppliers, we are there to support and maintain. On our platform, the only apps we have any amount of stake in are popular third-party applications without third party maintenance (so we do it for them) or apps developed by employees who have no impact on the store itself and are hidden behind a developer account like everyone else. It’s an easy line to cross but it’s important not to.,With great power comes great responsibility. Healthy/ethical marketplaces are places where trust is fostered between the platform or venue, and their suppliers and customers. As marketplaces came online the transparency that encouraged trust disappeared and we’re starting to see modern marketplaces break faith. These platforms should not be using their position of power to force their agenda, instead, applying the model of supporting existing suppliers and improving customer experience to drive success.