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

  • @all_out_of_plastic
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    11 year ago

    I make a small amount of money selling my original designs as prints on etsy. It’s not a lot, but thats how i want it so that it’s manageable with my single printer. My goal is to get the etsy gig just big enough to 100% pay for this hobby.