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July 10, 2023 Launched a simple landing page

Here's the landing page that I put together: https://printswarm.com
There aren't any pictures or videos yet because the product doesn't exist, but I hope it clarifies what the app does well enough without those things! I'll build further if enough people are interested in this concept.

Benjamin Katz

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    Hi! I looked at your site. I like how it is so simple! I hope this style matches your dream customers.
    These are the things I noticed:

    • Contrast ratio issues. Please use CSS Overview.
    • Instead of using a full link to show a printables.com example, you could use a link with the printable's title. Like this: Minimalist Speaker Stand. A link's text should describe what the link leads to.
    • I think you should somehow highlight that you only operate in United States. My eyes didn't catch that first.
    • I see that you used a Printer icon from Freepik. I recommend you to use svgrepo for free svgs, most of them are Public Domain meaning they don't even require an attribution. I think no attribution shows that you are more professional, like you custom made it.

    I have one question about the business itself. What if 2 or even 5 people order something at the same time? Do you have multiple printers so you can really deliver within minutes? Or it doesn't take that much time to print things?

    tomoviktor's avatar tomoviktor
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    3 years ago
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      Okay @tomoviktor, I've fixed most of what you mentioned, fixed the link and (literally) highlighted the US requirement! For the icon, I found a completely free one that had almost the right style and made some edits in GIMP since I have some familiarity with graphic design. Let me know what you think.

      One caveat: I'm not familiar with the contrast ratio tool in Chrome (thanks for letting me know about this, didn't even know Chrome had this feature) but I managed to fix couple of the warnings. I think overall it looks better now and I'm going to leave it as is for the time being, but I'm not meeting AAA compatibility on some of the items - not sure I understand the difference between AAA and AA. 🤔

      Thanks again for the feedback!

      ben_makes_stuff's avatar ben_makes_stuff
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      3 years ago
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        I love to see the fast response and update!
        All the things I mentioned are fixed right now, good job.
        About AA vs AA: it is about which font size it passes or not, read more at A vs. AA vs. AAA.

        Love the idea. Now I get the 'within minutes' phrase. Thanks for explaining it.

        tomoviktor's avatar tomoviktor
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        3 years ago
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          No worries! Thanks for the response as well.

          ben_makes_stuff's avatar ben_makes_stuff
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          3 years ago
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      1. Will take a look at these suggestions and make some changes, thanks! Freepik = just the first icon I found and I wanted to move quickly to get something out there. Agree that no attribution icons are better, will fix it shortly. EDIT: fixed! See above comment.
      1. The idea is to deliver in minutes after the print is complete. In general, having enough printers on the platform is a solvable problem - printer owners want to make money/are generally excited about this idea so far and there are commercial 3d print shops in major cities with multiple printers that I can sell on this. I'm going to be the first printer on the platform though since I own one. I'll get a feel for demand that way and iron out some of the kinks before offering it to other people on the waitlist.

      Thank you for the detailed feedback!

      ben_makes_stuff's avatar ben_makes_stuff
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      3 years ago
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    Like the idea , Uber for 3d printers.

    I'd like it for color Lazer too!

    Rishi_Uttam's avatar Rishi_Uttam
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    3 years ago
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      Thanks @Rishi_Uttam! What do you mean by color laser? If you mean printing normal documents in color with a laser printer, I thought about that, but there are some personal information concerns i.e. people typically print bank documents, legal docs that may have personal information on it and I wouldn't want to trust random people to print out those kind of documents for me if I were a user.

      ben_makes_stuff's avatar ben_makes_stuff
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      3 years ago
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