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Who here is making money 3D printing? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
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I am a hobbyist, and my job will probably never require me to design and print anything for work.

I do really enjoy the process of conceptualizing, designing, and printing, and have done so for myself and some close acquaintances.

I've spent many hours/days learning the tools of the trade and was wondering if there was an opportunity to make some money as a side gig. Has anyone been successful doing this, and how did you go about it?

Here are a couple of my early designs, I plan to upload more once I clean things up a bit.

https://www.thingiverse.com/landon8848/designs

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

How did you get started with selling 3d prints? Where are you selling your things?

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    So what I sell is kind of a replacement part for a machine that usually wealthy people own. Sorry I know that's super vague. But anyways I redesigned as one part to make it custom and now I sell those custom parts. The website I use to sell them very specific to people who own these so if I had any advice I'd say get into a niche market.

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