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Shut down the project

I had only a couple of regular clients who I transitioned off to a friend who runs a professional printing setup and decided to shut shop.

Essentially, it never got to a stage where I could hire someone and on the few days orders would come in, it would throw a spanner in my day to get the order fulfilled and shipped.

It was an amazing experience though. And very unit-profitable (so if you want to start something like this, ping me and I'll share details).

However, was not for me. In hindsight, not for me in a side-project sort of manner. I would have to give it a large push and move full time on it and make some investments to get it off the ground and I did not feel that was my calling.

Also, maybe not a product market fit.
To be consumer centric, I would need to reduce the pricing from Rs. 6 per page to about Rs. 2 - 3 per page and also be OK to print a lot of copyrighted stuff which I was not happy to do.

And for business users who are making money from their printing and are happy to pay for that convenience, there are already organisations that cater to them at a better price point.

C'est la vie and onwards to the next adventure! :)

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