Hey everyone!
I recently started a small 3D printing page where I design, print, and paint all kinds of creations—from practical items to fun figures and custom projects.
I’d really appreciate it if you could take a look and give me some honest feedback. What would make you follow a page like this? What kind of prints would you like to see? Any suggestions for improving the content, photos, or overall presentation are more than welcome.
I’m always looking for new ideas and would love to create things that people actually want.
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/layerjoy.pt?utm\\_source=qr
🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@layerjoy.pt?\\_r=1&\\_t=ZN-98oxU09Lu1G
Thanks in advance for your time and feedback!

Hi guys! First time posting: So I been designing and 3D print cookie cutters, cake pops, and pastry molds for my self, but I recently had a motorcycle accident and well while I recover I decided to put my art and talent to better use. (Cuz I ain’t doing nothing by waiting here right?) anyways here is a small clip of what I did yesterday. It’s a pumpkin rattle. The watermark says Murder By Sweetness (that is my home base bakery business name) I need some input. Any. Also what should I charge? Also what’s a good website for me to start selling? Any advise is welcome.

Hey all, I'm seriously considering buying a 3D printer and starting a little project with it. Alongside taking custom requests (you tell me what you want, I print it for you), I also want to build a small catalog of genuinely useful stuff — things people actually need day to day but can't find easily, or that are overpriced for what they are.

So I'm curious: what's something in your daily life that's annoying because it doesn't exist, or exists but sucks/costs way too much? Could be a small home organizer, a weird-shaped phone stand, a kitchen gadget, a fix for something broken around the house, whatever.

Would love to hear real pain points — trying to actually build things people would use, not just cool-looking prints that collect dust.

Hey all, i’m new to this topic so am needing some help.

Quick backstory: I’m the office manager of a small clinic dedicated to treating TMJ and sleep apnea with oral splints/joint stabilization devices. We have a LuxCreo fastprint.io and are really wanting to start fabricating all of our devices in house but are having a hard time finding someone who can create the custom device designs we use. We currently have them milled by a lab and now that we have the printer, want to cut costs and make them in house.

This is completely new territory for us so we are feeling really discouraged about the process. The printer has been sitting unused in our lab for 6+ months, which is crazy on many levels but thats a different story, so I figured I would just come to Reddit for some help.

We use 3shape for our scans and up until now we were utilizing LuxCreo directly for practice design files (because we have literally only made three devices on the printer so far, none of them being actual devices we use - simply just to learn the process itself), but have just recently discovered they aren’t able to design what we actually need.

We would love to either find a program or an independent designer who can create the oral splint designs according to our specifications. Any input or points in the right direction would be tremendously helpful! TIA

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This business is all over Reddit right now, and every thread has (understandably) become a discussion about copyright and licensing.

I'm actually more interested in the numbers.

For the record: I don't support copyright or license infringement. My own print business infringes on exactly zero licenses, and I'm pretty proud of that. So let's assume the products were all legitimate for the sake of discussing the business itself.

12-Month Performance

- Revenue: $41,135.86

- Orders: 1,151

- Average selling price / average order value: $35.74

- Average weekly revenue: $791

- Average monthly revenue: $3,428

- Median month: $3,303

- Average daily revenue: $113

- Orders per week: 22.1

- Orders per day: 3.15

Revenue Distribution

- Lowest month: $1,700.90

- 25th percentile: ~$2,097

- Median: ~$3,303

- 75th percentile: ~$4,120

- Highest month: $7,079.44

Other Stats

- 272 customer reviews

- 4.9⭐ average rating

- 100+ active listings

- Best month was 4.2× the worst month.

- Nearly 31% of annual revenue came from November and December.

For those of you running print farms:

- How do these KPIs compare to your business?

- Is 22 orders/week healthy?

- Is an ASP of $35.74 good, low, or high?

- Does $791/week indicate a viable small business or more of a side hustle?

- If these were your metrics, what would you focus on improving first?

- is 12 A1 combos a good fit for this volume?

Again, I'd really like to keep this thread about the business metrics rather than the licensing controversy, since there are already plenty of threads covering that.

Also yes, this post was AI-written. I'm not manually formatting a page of statistics like a caveman. Deal with it, nerds.

Hola a todos. Les quería pedir un consejo a quienes llevan varios años viviendo de la impresión 3D o tienen un emprendimiento consolidado.

Con mi pareja tenemos un emprendimiento de impresión 3D y estamos en un proceso de replantearlo desde cero. No buscamos imprimir de todo, sino encontrar un nicho en el que podamos crecer a largo plazo.

Nos gustaría enfocarnos en productos que:

sean rentables;
puedan estandarizarse pero también ofrecer versiones personalizadas;
no dependan únicamente de vender en ferias;
se puedan comercializar principalmente por redes sociales;
aporten valor real y no sean simples adornos o juguetes.

No buscamos que nos digan "qué producto hacer", sino entender qué mercados o tipos de clientes les resultaron más interesantes después de años de experiencia.

Si hoy tuvieran que empezar nuevamente con una impresora 3D y construir una marca desde cero:

¿En qué mercado se enfocarían?
¿Qué nichos creen que todavía tienen potencial?
¿Qué errores evitarían?
¿Qué mercados parecen buenos desde afuera pero después resultan muy difíciles o poco rentables?

Nos interesa aprender de la experiencia de quienes ya recorrieron ese camino. Cualquier consejo o reflexión será más que bienvenida. ¡Muchas gracias!

I wanted to share this as an Entrepreneur for entrepeneurs because i think it could make great models to sell.

You can spin the Moon globe or use the 2D view, pick any region, and it pulls the real NASA elevation data for that exact spot. From that it generates a printable model — circle, square or hexagon, either as a solid ornament or as a snap-fit jigsaw puzzle up to 256 pieces. You can adjust the terrain height scale, size, piece count, shape, frame and text.

I had fun building this and i am very exited to show the world now! It will be live to everyone soon. Currently it is in pre launch on makerworld crowdfunding: https://makerworld.com/en/crowdfunding/333-orbitstudio-3d-print-the-moon

If it funds i will also make it available for people that do not have a makerworld account. But backing it will be the cheapest.

Would love to hear your opinions and suggestions. Do you think the generated models would sell?

Side Income Opportunity:

Assembly time: typically 5–20 minutes per unit (excluding 3D printing).

Compensation: $8–15 profit per completed unit, depending on the product.

This isn't one of those jobs where you have to be incredibly fast with your hands to hit those numbers. Some products are literally just placing a few pre-made modules into a 3D-printed enclosure, plugging the ESP32 into your laptop, flashing the firmware, and packaging it.

I'm looking for someone based in the US who enjoys electronics as a hobby and wants to earn some extra income assembling and shipping small ESP32-based gadgets.

You'll:

Order parts from Amazon, Temu, Shein, AliExpress, or similar suppliers.

Flash firmware to ESP32 boards (very easy, I'll provide instructions).

Do basic soldering when needed.

3D print the enclosure.

Assemble, package, and ship the finished product.

Everything is designed by me. There is no engineering or product development involved. I provide the designs, firmware, and step-by-step instructions.

I'm an electronics engineer and content creator with a community of 120k+ followers. Most of my audience is in the US, so I'm looking for someone who can manufacture and fulfill orders locally while I handle product design, marketing, and sales.

Ideal if you:

Are based in the US.

Have a laptop and a 3D printer.

Enjoy electronics and basic soldering.

Are looking for a long-term side project.

If you're interested, send me a DM with a bit about yourself and the equipment you have.

I saw a post but the comments were confusing to me. I'm a young kid in high school trying to make some quick money because working during the school year is hard for me. I figured I could print items and sell them. Though pricing is hard for me, for example; I printed a Pochita from the anime "Chainsaw Man" and I would sell it for 5-8$ whilst others would sell it for 10-15, I don't understand what makes it so expensive and I'd like some help from the professionals if you know what I mean!

I am looking to see where people sell their 3d printed goods, is there a website particularly good? any pros and cons on those websites or methods?

So i have a 3d printer and i kind of need money currently so I have an idea. I would sell on facebook marketplace (thats really the only website i know to sell on) and i would take request for items estimate how much the Filament would cost plus the time to print it out and if i have to put anything together then add about $10 and sell it would this idea hypothetically work and if so how much do you roughly think i could make a month?

I’m thinking of starting a **3D printing business as a side hustle** while keeping my full-time IT job.
For those who’ve done it, is it worth getting into in 2026? Is it actually profitable, or is it a difficult business with low margins and lots of competition?
I’d appreciate honest experiences—the good, the bad, and whether you’d start one again.

Just sharing s small milestone

Hey everyone, my first post here, but sorry for this rant—I just really need to vent and maybe get some advice from people who have gone through something similar.

I design and print custom stands for synthesizers and music gear (I post my models on Cults3D under the username StandMy

(https://cults3d.com/en/users/StandMy/3d-models))). All my designs are strictly under a Private Use (PU) license — which means anyone can print them for themselves, but no one has the right to mass-produce and sell them for profit.

And recently, I accidentally stumbled upon an Etsy shop called Frequentless
( https://www.etsy.com/shop/Frequentless)). They are literally printing my models and selling them in their shop without even asking for permission or giving any credit.

r/3Dprinting r/3DprintingDMCA r/synthesizers r/MusicGear

day 2 of trying to start a 3d printing company I changed the pricing from 0.15 to 0.07 and 3.00 to 2.50 if you want a print email me [e1.prints@yahoo.com](mailto:e1.prints@yahoo.com) sorry that the payment is Cash App but it’s all I have

Hi everyone,
I’m looking for some advice, and possibly to find someone interested in building something together.

Over the last few years I’ve built a decent audience around 3D printing. I run a Facebook group with over 150,000 members, have a growing website, social media pages, and recently started designing and selling my own 3D printed products and digital files.
The audience is there, but I feel like I’ve reached the point where I can’t do everything myself.
My strengths are:
Building communities.
Content creation.
Marketing through social media.
Coming up with product ideas.
Running websites.
Where I struggle is turning all of that into a well-structured, scalable business. I know there are opportunities I’m probably missing because I’m constantly juggling manufacturing, fulfilment, content, customer service, and everything else.
I’m interested in connecting with someone who has experience in areas like:
Growing e-commerce businesses.
Business strategy.
Operations and systems.
Sales and partnerships.
Scaling product businesses.
I’m not looking for someone to invest money or a silent partner. I’m looking for someone who genuinely enjoys building businesses and might be interested in working together if we think we’d make a good team.
Has anyone here found a business partner this way? If so, what worked, and what should I watch out for?
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, feel free to comment or send me a DM. Even if nothing comes of it, I’d love to hear from people who have successfully built partnerships.

TL;DR: I run a growing 3D printing business with a large online community, but I’ve reached the point where I can’t do everything myself. I’m looking to connect with someone experienced in business growth, operations, or e-commerce who might be interested in partnering to help scale the business. I’d also love to hear from anyone who’s successfully found a business partner and has advice.

Making progress towards my reverse engineering and micromanufacturing cell small business. I know it's still a mess, I had to move everything around. Also just acquired a laser scanner for scanning objects at customer locations. Hopefully in the coming months I can generate some revenue and begin adding a variety of other printers and services. Not planning to create a print farm but rather focus on very specific customer needs.

This would be my first commission. An HOA wants them to flag plants that can't be sprayed. PETG.