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MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I remember ordering some samples from them when they were a newer company, and how cool it was when they added metal as a material option. Sad to see them go. Seems like much more of another company ruined by going public than a failure of their business model. I guess the silver lining is that they simply went under rather than morphing into a worst possible version of what they were trying to squeeze every penny in the pursuit of infinite growth (or maybe they tried that for a while and it failed too, I’ll admit I haven’t been paying attention to the scene for the last several years).
remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
They probably lost a ton of business to the Chinese PCB companies that branched into hobby-focused 3D printing and CNC milling. (That is speculation, of course.)
Running a business like that primarily out of the US must have been super expensive. It seems that Shapeways had locations in Europe, which probably had its own set of issues.