💡Biz Ideas Article: Built a 3d printing biz and walked away

[t2van]

Good read seems there has been 1 or 2 posts about 3d printing here recently:

How I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months​

...and why I walked away​

How I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months

A business report from a 3D printing enthusiast

www.wespiser.com

Covers lots of things and a bit of a reality check on running one and small highlights into the costs involved. Worth a read for anyone considering it I think.

 

[RiskyStuff]

Aha, okej.
Tiktoki plus 3d printing.
Cool idea for starters.

I'd print myself sex toy or some elements for it.

Lol, you see design of that site. It's so basic...

 

[RiskyStuff]

"My background is a mix of early-career academic research, startup data science, programming languages, and production engineering. Over time, I’ve moved from data analysis, to writing models, to building systems, and onto leading work where the main challenge isn’t code, but coordinating complex systems with the people needed to make them work."

Zero idea about business. He should stick to where he belongs, writing boring posts about monads and building another module for his boss.

 

[Champagne]

I am still amazed that some people can make profits from this business. Yes, if you sell something unique, you might be able to make some profit, but most people just print items that are already on the market at a cheap price. I still don’t understand how they are even making a profit when you factor in all the additional costs involved.

 

[t2van]

I am still amazed that some people can make profits from this business. Yes, if you sell something unique, you might be able to make some profit, but most people just print items that are already on the market at a cheap price. I still don’t understand how they are even making a profit when you factor in all the additional costs involved.

That's like most businesses though.

I think it comes down how you calculate everything first and understand your costings - it's also the same factor why most people fail because they don't understand the profit they make - if any

There was an article about a 8 year old or 13 year old doing 6 figures as a 3d printing business but like most of them articles his parents pay the electric bill and some other costs so it's a little fictional and more of a "feel good" story.

Least with this one regardless of what the authors background is it highlights good points about understanding pricing, costings etc and the importance of figuring some things out before hand.

There's also a lack of information in the article about sales, what he done to market etc as his problem could be volume but if he had nothing there to scale anyway it's back to square one.

 

[RiskyStuff]

That's like most businesses though.

I think it comes down how you calculate everything first and understand your costings - it's also the same factor why most people fail because they don't understand the profit they make - if any

There was an article about a 8 year old or 13 year old doing 6 figures as a 3d printing business but like most of them articles his parents pay the electric bill and some other costs so it's a little fictional and more of a "feel good" story.

Least with this one regardless of what the authors background is it highlights good points about understanding pricing, costings etc and the importance of figuring some things out before hand.

There's also a lack of information in the article about sales, what he done to market etc as his problem could be volume but if he had nothing there to scale anyway it's back to square one.

If his fcking products look like his website and expertise, I'd rather buy eggs from an old lady on the street. Wtf is this.