3D Print Startup Biz Chronicles: More BIG models & My FAVORITE thing to 3D Print
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- My main YT: / technicalsmatt
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Building a company now. Keep it up
Keep the videos coming
I dont wanna wakeup the dogs! - I have awoken the dogs! I got a good laugh out of that. Keep up the videos! Love that you also shared your screen and tinkercad, real behind the scenes vibe
Nice
Nice just to the point no bull.
Try to keep it that way!
There's some good ideas and if you have some skills, Getting a good money pit niche is the market TCGs and CCG (think baseball cards or pokemon cards). Players would drop ez $50 to $100 for a deckbox or frames for graded cards (PAS, BGS, ect...) but, the caveat being it needs to look clean.
Brilliant, i'll explore!
OK Where do I get the 3D file for that Bad Ass Rotating Model?
Curious how often 3d prints fail.. and cost time/money? That is my biggest worry about a 3d print farm.. so many prints seem to fail. Do you figure out which prints never fail and only offer those? What about those that get their product.. dislike it. You refund the money? Print again/send for free, etc?
I can answer part of your question. 3d prints typically do not fail if modeled for 3d printing. Curved edges instead of sharp 90 degree. Also prints either fail due to faulty printer or the model wasn't supported correctly. All hardware will wear, break or need maintenance so if you have a good printer failures shouldn't happen often. For a model being supported correctly, like he mentioned people try to minimize supports or angle the model in a risky way to save a few pennies or shave an hour off of a 24hour print. Cost wise 3d filament is 15 to 30 dollars per 1kg roll. The printer does not use a lot of electricity so it depends on the size of model and how long it takes to print.
I wish 3d modelers would smooth out models and not make them look all faceted.
Sometimes we make them look like that so our computer doesn’t explode 😂 but models made specifically for printing should always be smooth imho
I hope your joking about getting into an industry you dont actually belong in. I'm tired of guys with money just completely moving into this industry that young guys who live and breathe this thought we were going to be able to dig ourselve out of the mud with. And we get blocked by guys who already succeeded elsewhere blocking out ability with 10 machines that are always bambus.. no hate to you as a person but I thought I was going to be able to change my family's trajectory and my business was suppressed by wealthier guys around me.
I appreciate your reply, truly. In the spirit of absolute honesty, yes, I do aim to do exactly what you're describing. To the fact that I don't "belong", well, nobody belongs anywhere. If passion was a litmus test for where people belong, then the overwhelming majority of people wouldn't belong where they're at.
If it matters at all, i've been where you're at and I got very lucky with my first business. No loans, started as a side hustle, and just scaled it up to where it is now with 50 employees in 6 locations. I don't know if my advice is worth anything or relevant to what you do, but I will say that you might consider the space you/we are in has extremely low barriers to entry, so it's going to experience a lot of people moving in/out of it at various scales.
Also, yes, bambus are really (as far as I can tell) the only way to go in this space at this size (barring industrial applications). Fidgeting and repairing machines just means downtime and lost sales/efficiency. It's a business venture for me, not a hobby, or art project, or passion.
Again, I appreciate your reply and viewership. Glad to talk further if you like
Just figure it out bro. It will always be competition in every market.
@TechnicalsTinkers I appreciate the civil conversation. When I say people who don't belong in meaning someone who buys 10 bambus and only uses the basics profiles provided and doesn't know how to troubleshoot anything but because they bought a bambu they don't have to know anything. Or the scum who have built their entire business off of items that they don't have the right to sell or designed themselves. If you buy the rights that's one thing but guys making hundreds a week of off flexi dragons and Rex's was pretty gross when the rest of us didn't participate in that because we knew it wasn't right there just wasn't any oversight to enforce the law for the original designers. It sounds like you somewhat know how to modify settings and have a grasp on how the machine works for the most part. But again no hate. Your modeling skills seem to miss the point of 3d printing. We can design things completely different and usually better than the original part we are trying to replace which was designed for injection molding. I'd remodel those blind holders in 30 minutes and make them so they'd never break EVER because I've been learning this stuff for years now. I'm just a poor 20 something who has bad credit and no one who is willing to invest so I can get a good machine. Its also not just about finding a niche it's also about doing it better than the other guys. Yes the bambu has less "down time" but I also don't want my machine to be all proprietary parts so if something breaks it's not 3x what the part should cost. I hope when you scale up you hire someone and you pay them well because the only guy I found in my area who I could work for was offering 10 an hour and that's like spiting in the face of the mechanic when the business owner doesn't even know how to change oil.