Subscriptions? 👍🏽 or 👎🏽 · 3D Printing BusinessExperience

Subscriptions? 👍🏽 or 👎🏽

TL;DR Considering subscriptions for our new 3D business

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My boys (15 and 13) and I decided to start a 3D printing business a few months ago, and so far, it's been one of the best decisions we've made as a family for several reasons. Although we're selling a few things and making a bit of money here and there, the journey has been fantastic learning together, attending events, and supporting each other every step of the way.

We've found that printing free models from the various 3D marketplaces is fine and could probably take us somewhere. However, I think more specialised designs could be more profitable. The challenge is that some of those designs are usually behind a subscription, which, in fairness, isn't much—until you realize that the products you want to print come from several designers. Then, the total cost of accessing those models becomes more substantial.

I know that one option could be learning how to design our own 3D models. While we don't dislike that idea because it's an incredible skill to have, it could take quite a while to learn and make it work for us as a business, especially for the things we like to print.

What does everyone think about those subscriptions? Or what do you guys do?

Yes, they're great!

Nah, they're not good.

Some of them are good.

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