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

  • WhirlybirdEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I made about $100 in revenue, but very little profit off that, by making some simple cookie cutters for kids to use with play dough. Couldn’t charge enough for them to really make any money for how long they took to print.

    Still trying to think of how to make it a more profitable little side business, but short of hitting it gold with being able to think of and design my own product that even a decent sized niche of people would want, it’s not looking great. Was going to buy that new multi-colour fast Bambu printer so I could sell some MatMire designs (subscribed to his patreon) as they are amazing in 1 colour so would be an easy sell in multicolour, but the wastage of material in multicolour prints threw me off.