3D Printing Made Easy

3D printing today is defined by a challenging upfront technical learning curve for beginners, who must choose among hundreds of similar printers, learn slicing software, understand plastic types, and source their own files.
Designers must commit to closed ecosystems of leading printer brands and have little control over their IP once their models are made public, relying on the goodwill of the printer companies and buyers to protect their designs.
Our solution, and immediate goal, is to build a marketplace that serves all printer brands, removes the slicing step for beginners, and protects designer files by only distributing print files, never the original models.

There are an estimated 2 million active printers in the US—less than 1% of the population. It's a long way to go before widespread adoption.
In the meantime, sellers must build their own marketing and distribution from scratch, while buyers have no clear path to getting something printed at an affordable price.
90% of these problems can be solved with software. A catalog of cleanly organized print files. Logistics software to coordinate who has a printer locally with who wants to buy - eliminating shipping costs and creating a more affordable economy for buyers and sellers.

In it's current form 3D printing doesn't help the plastics problem and honestly, in some cases (i.e. multi-color printing) may make it worse.
Very little funding is allocated for material sciences innovation to create new types of filaments, that would fundamnetally increase the applications of 3D printing to new domains such as food and structural materials.
Our longer term vision is to build plastics recycling infrastructure that not only recycles used filament, but also converts plastics such as PETG (i.e. water bottles) into valuable new filament, creating a circular economy for plastics that can fund research into new materials.