Ready to start making your 3D printing New Year’s resolutions come true? Shapeways is all about making your ideas a reality, and we’ve got the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your newest project.
Our friends at Kickstarter are inviting people to launch a new series of new mini-campaigns called Make 100. Throughout January, they’ll be featuring artists and creators running quick projects that offer backers an edition of exactly 100 items. This is the perfect way to reach out to your friends and fans and offer them a small run of special, 3D printed gifts. And, it’s a great way to share and develop a new idea — while providing friends and fans with a unique, limited-edition design.
And, after your Kickstarter ends, bringing your vision to life through Shapeways means:
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Iterations go directly to market
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Low barrier to entry — just design it and print
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No setup costs compared with traditional manufacturing
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Unlimited unique, custom items
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Over 50 high-quality, consumer-ready materials (and if you have a home printer, Shapeways can take your prototypes to final version quality)
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Direct shipping and fulfillment
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Prints ready to post-process (where applicable)
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Strong community support and inspiration
Whether you’re making miniatures or jewelry, art or practical tools, if you have an idea for a Make 100 campaign, sign up here.
Learn more about making with Shapeways here.
All well and good but Kickstarter specifically states NO DIGITAL RENDERS of proposed items to be made. So unless you already have an item you want to promote, there will be no time to come up with an idea, get it modeled, printed, shipped, photographed and Kickstarter project started much before the end of January.
Promotion of this would have been ideal back at the start of December!
Hi Glenn, Nick from Kickstarter here. I just wanted to clarify that we’re fine with digital renderings for 3D print projects — we just don’t allow photorealistic renderings. In other words, it shouldn’t look like a photo of a physical object. As long as it doesn’t use realistic shading or lighting effects, it should be fine. Definitely hear you on the tight timeframe too. We hope that if coming up with a limited-run project like this in January doesn’t work, folks might be inspired to do something similar down the line.
All the best,
Nick
What Glenn said and also, doing a Kickstarter is nothing like sticking something in your Shapeways shop to sell. It’s a serious business that can take a year of your life to get done. And if you mess it up by just jumping in headlong and not doing your figures right you can go down financially in a way that is not funny at all! Also your Kickstarter will stay up for all to see, forever, when you succeed and and also when you fail, so no one will ever trust you again if you mess it up.
The very last thing Shapeways or 3D printing in general needs is a reputation of being folks who can’t do their sums right and can’t deliver in the end.
I did a Kickstarter last year, and I’ve almost completed the entire thing (one more to send out), so I know what I’m talking about. (Incidentally I did use a Shapeways printed prototype for it)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1380416336/claudette-a-curvaceous-ball-jointed-doll-bjd-sd
Here’s another thing that will make combining shapeways & Kickstarter hard/impossible; you guys won’t let me send out stuff from my order to other countries. I’m in the Netherlands. How would the kickstarter even work if I have to pay a second set of postage to ship from the Netherlands to the USA when you have factory in the US that can ship withing the US for $7? I have to pay $30 shipping to the US for any item that doesn’t fir through the letterbox!
And that would just be the start of it.
The prices on Shapeways are not suitable for mass production (yes, to me, who makes dolls in batches of 10, 100 is mass production). Mass production (10 or more) only is useful if the price per piece actual goes down. Otherwise you’re still in the realm of one-offs and prototypes. If you want shapeways to be a real option for a Kickstarter make 100 campaign, give us a good price for those 100, before promoting it here.
Awaiting the faster lower cost of HP’s printer, for Shapeways production. Else, what’s the point?
Advantage of 3D printing is a) custom and/or b) lower cost.
I’m actually interested in this idea, as I have something I want to make but it’ll cost some up-front materials and a Shapeways order or two to beta test dimensions.
What I’m curious about is if I get 100 orders through Kickstarter, how does Shapeways handle the “Direct shipping and fulfillment” you mention?
Hey Dave! Glad to hear you’re interested! There are a few ways we can do this depending on what you want to accomplish. you can PM me for details my username is andrewsimonthomas
Congrats to Sasha de Koninck for being one of our first community members to launch a #Make100 project! Check it out: http://shpws.me/NcA8
Hello Nick, I have a few designs I would Like to upload (key holders,Name Tags and Tabletop Labels), Kickstarter doesn’t list my country
Kindly advise, I am open giving them away for Free
have a Fabulous 2017
I’d be interested, but I would like to know more details about how the crossover between Shapeways, and Kickstarter is supposed to work.
Hi Richard! We’d love to help answer your questions. Can you let us know more about what you’re looking to do?
I’m interested in doing a miniature kickstarter. I have a small shop on Shapeways already ( https://www.shapeways.com/shops/WolframGanD ), and I’d like to develop a larger awareness of it. Ideally I would have a couple more miniature designs ready by the time I’d run a kickstarter. There probably would be a few exclusive variants to kickstarter (which seems odd considering the files would be printable either way).
Ideally, I would like to use some of the models I already have though. I’ve thought about doing a kickstarter in the past, but was hesitant because miniature kickstarters tend to blow up (get over ambitious amount wise), or go no where. I think the limit of “make 100” with restricted purchases to a few limited items would alleviate that concern though.
Question wise; How much of a markup over shapeways would I need to have to make things flow ideally? Is there some sort of perk/discount on doing it through kickstarter that could incentivize people to get mini’s that way over the current shop? How is shipping/fulfillment supposed to work…etc.?
Richard: you should offer whatever you’d want in profit. Depending on the number of products you order we may be able to give a small discount, email us at sales@shapeways.com
Woot! Another awesome #Make100 project is up from Kai Bracher: http://shpws.me/NdKi
Hi all, I read about Make/100 and, today, I started my campaign on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1214432675/forma-mentis.
As you will see the campaign is about a project of 3D printed jewels, inspired by mindwaves and thoughts, entirely produced thanks to Shapeways, if I didn’t met Shapeways I had never been able to create them!
For Make/100 I created a pendant, in a limited edition of 100, that I offer as a reward alone or with one of my “mind generated” rings.
After I launched the campaign I immediately wrote to make100@kickstarter.com asking to be considered for the Make/100 initiative, hope to have soon an answer. Do you know if there is something other I have to do?
I have forgotten to tell you that I have a little shop on Shapeways in which you will find both mind generated jewels and other projects: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/xiberdesign.
Hello all,
Just wanted to share that my kickstarter make/100 project just went live today! I’m a professional digital artist by day and one of my recent projects was modeling the updated pirate skull and crossbones for the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean movie trailer. Such a fun project to be involved with!
I’ve run a Shapeways shop for a couple years now and one of my favorite pieces is a very lifelike skull ring. So I decided to make a new version of that inspired by the pirates skull design and created a kickstarter project. I’ll be offering a limited quantity of 100 rings with a custom personalized inscription inside the band.
The project is live here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1007351318/pirates-of-the-caribbean-skull-ring-silver-steel-g
You can find my shapeways shop here: https://www.shapeways.com/shops/liquidnoir
My personal and professional work is at http://www.kenbishopart.com
Cheers!