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Iā€™ve proposed something like this already a long time ago.
Or find a group of enthusiasts and developers to create our own (Iā€™m happy enough to setup a project for this as PM, but Iā€™m not a developer myself)

Iā€™m interested in either option

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As someone who is also in a country that isnā€™t even mentioned, and does not have the resources to move with 3D hubs, I concur.
I have issues with them using us to get their platform to this level, and then essentially kicking us in the teeth by going, weā€™re now too big for you, thanks and good luck.
The blog post system wonā€™t work locally where I am, as the people here donā€™t bother to look, so I will be taking my service elsewhere.
I am personally quite disgusted to be used like this.

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Why donā€™t we all band together and create our own platform to support the non commercial customer? We are all over the world and I bet there are enough of us to cover it. How about we all create an eBay store and go that route? In fact, letā€™s do it today. Who is in?

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Ok if not eBay, how about this, we all stand up an ecommerce site, starting out as plain vanilla offering print services world wide and go from there. I also know there are other specialized ā€˜storesā€™ elsewhere (AstroPrintā€™s for example among others).

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Agreed the quality control on ebay would be an issue, we need someone who is reasonably good with creating a commercial type site to set something up. Then weā€™d need to advertise to get the name out there again.

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Iā€™ll be watching that one closely, very similar to the original 3D hubs, and using Facebook is a bonus, as it solves a lot of the marketing issues.

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Not sure why they didnā€™t propose that to us, one of the reasons Iā€™m so unimpressed with them. Like I said earlier, itā€™s like they used us to get there and then just go cool, we donā€™t want the little guy that built our business anymore.

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It seems the ā€œjoinā€ page is disabled for now

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Otherwise, if there are any developers between the printers ā€¦ we can do our own.
Most challenging will be the pre-processing of the STL or OBJ file uploaded by the customer to determine price, quality, etcā€¦

Iā€™m meeting with some devs later this month

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Excellent idea, but sadly my coding skills are embedded in nature, little to no web experience, and @OLCE is right, the tricky bit will be the calculation from the STL/OBJ file to get costing etc. Maybe see if we can reverse engineer from Slicer or Cura.

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Agreed, although I rarely charge private clients for that unless they make me change their design/do a new design for them. Have to get back to work now, but will watch this thread closely and respond when able to.

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Anyone consider https://www.makexyz.com and similar?

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Iā€™m also not a developer, but Iā€™m an IT Consultant, Project Manager, so if we make a project out of thisā€¦ I can play.
I also can do platform admin and moderation where needed.

If anyone is interested, I can setup a system this week, where everyone can start listing wishes, features, ā€¦ etcā€¦

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I think we have an idea here and maybe we should take this convo onto another, free platform and take it from there. We can do a G+ or some such.

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Donā€™t worry. We are already creating that platform to cater all of your needs. its under development, just give us 1 more month. Stay tuned for 3DJunction. Coming soon!

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Ok, stay tuned where? What should we monitor or subscribe to?

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It sounds like something is in the offingā€¦but hangouts works if there are a few of us. After that it becomes a giant con-call. We need a discussion areaā€¦

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Iā€™ve a project slack for this type of discussions also, easier to organize.

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Interested people, can you please email your contact details to designocare@gmail.com. I will stay in touch with you all. As soon as we are done with the product development, we can get you onboard.
Thanks!