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Posted by wespiser_2018 2 days ago

I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months(www.wespiser.com)
69 points | 61 commentspage 2
dvh 5 hours ago|
I recently had 3d printed part made by jlcpcb, it was 110x100x25mm resin print, 60ml for €5 plus €12 shipping. https://imgur.com/a/ctOTImN
kennywinker 5 hours ago||
For resin printing, doing it yourself almost never makes sense. It’s expensive, fiddly, messy, hazardous to your skin and lungs, and consumes a lot of space to do right.

Filament printing, on the other hand, makes sense to do yourself quite often. A $200 printer will do an excellent job of most things you can throw at it, it doesn’t take up much space, is quite safe unless you’re using weird filaments, and even a kid can learn the basics in a couple days.

proee 5 hours ago||
How long did it take to get shipped to you, from click -> doorstep?
dvh 5 hours ago||
2 weeks (that's their cheapest shipping)
comrade1234 6 hours ago||
I'm in Europe and ordered some dungeons and dragons figurines from ironshieldarmy based in Poland. They print them to order, optionally do the required assembly and base layer of paint.

I had the impression that they're busy full-time but I have no idea really. They have some nice designs though.

I'm surprised they're completely focused on DnD though. Hopefully they have another business doing war hammer, etc. (although maybe everything in war hammer is copyrighted?)

giarc 45 minutes ago||
>I'm surprised they're completely focused on DnD though

They could have 20 sites all dedicated to a single theme. Probably best for SEO and customer satisfaction if your site is dedicated rather than a hodge podge of different themes.

starkparker 5 hours ago||
Warhammer IP is a fucking nightmare. They will bring all kinds of hammers down on anyone trying to make money on anything Warhammer-compatible or resembling Warhammer.

Examples of what they pull when someone tries to do that:

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/01/24/printed-minis-and...

https://freelancerpress.com/arts/2025/06/04/games-workshop-i...

hamdingers 5 hours ago||
Games Workshop store employees will also kick you out for using 3d printed models in your army, even when it's just for casual play.
seanw444 4 hours ago||
That's... insane
pjc50 3 hours ago||
Bartenders will also kick you out if you bring your own booze to a bar.
Novosell 6 hours ago|
This is so ai-written it is hard to take serious. You figured out the trick to making tall skinny things stable? Weight or a wide base?
wespiser_2018 6 hours ago|
I did not write this with AI.

The "trick" was finding a weight that would work, which needed to be purchased for cheap and installed easily.

randlet 5 hours ago||
I assumed it was AI too

"All of this happened over text—not an organized workflow system, but good enough to handle a weekend’s worth of work, one weekend at a time. For a moment, the business worked. In reality, this was the easy part."

And

"The logo was the Boston Celtics logo. The problem? It’s not a minimal, modern logo; it’s a detailed, hand-drawn image from 1946."

have a pretty AI like cadence.

edit: No shade to OP....I'm glad it's not AI, but I'm sad my default is assuming AI now :/

ssl-3 4 hours ago|||
People have been writing comparative statements with punctuation for as long as we've had things to compare and written language to punctuate.

Your bot detector is broken.

wespiser_2018 5 hours ago|||
Thanks for the feedback!
BeetleB 5 hours ago||
Please don't change your writing style just because random humbugs on the Internet associate it with an LLM.
lozenge 4 hours ago|||
What is writing if not a way to be perceived by others. Ideally not perceived as an LLM!

I saw it too and OP has likely picked up these idioms from the sheer amount of AI-assisted or generated writing out there.

BeetleB 4 hours ago||
> I saw it too and OP has likely picked up these idioms from the sheer amount of AI-assisted or generated writing out there.

I think that's a convenient post hoc justification. I could as easily say the LLM wrote it that way because that's how people actually write.

ButlerianJihad 5 hours ago||||
It may be a compliment on cogent points combined with impeccable grammar and spelling
keybored 3 hours ago|||
This is the home of the writing luminaries that can’t imagine outputting em-dashes by hand.
alvah 1 hour ago||
where is the em-dash key on your keyboard? Yes, I know you can use a shortcut. 99.9% of people don't.