The actual printing of stuff isn't the effort/time consuming part. The printer does its job in an hour. Getting to a file it can print is where the evening goes... hunting Thingiverse for something close enough, tweaking someone else's model, or spending hours in CAD for something to keep you moving in a project. Printytron exists to shorten that distance, for anyone, at any skill level. If you own a printer and don't want to spend an evening in Fusion 360 or OnShape or whatever for a tripod adapter for some obscure old camera - describe it, check the preview, download the STL, get back to the actual project. You can be specific with Printy too, she's capable of handling specific dimensions and measurements. If you don't own a printer at all but you know someone who does, you can make the file yourself and send them a link, which turns "can you design and print me a thing" into "can you print this." Which is a different ask entirely! The other big reason this exists: I wanted to build a product with no commercial pressure on it at all. No pricing page, no growth targets, no roadmap items I personally didn't choose. Just my love for the craft of making products which people like using. It's free and I don't have any plans to change that. If the bill I'm personally funding becomes unmanageable, I'll try to work out a way which doesn't involve charging users, but that'd be a good problem to have and I have ideas if we get to it. If you try it, the thing I most want to know is where did you feel points of friction? Where did you think to yourself "Oh I wish it could do XYZ...". And obviously, please report bugs! This is my first Product Hunt launch, so I expect it'll have some rough edges.

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Launch Day - Share your user experiences, feedback and bugs

This is it, launch day is coming.
As this is Printytron's first launch, this will be a real battle test - I'm anticipating finding some rough spots, and it's critical to me that I address them.
Please share with me your user experiences, feel free to describe them as a story or however else you'd like.
Looking forward to seeing what comes of this!

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Create 3D prints by describing them. Download the STL.

Create 3D prints by describing them. Download the STL.

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Launch Day - Share your user experiences, feedback and bugs

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Launch Day - Share your user experiences, feedback and bugs