@@cjlowe1650 I recently purchased my Bambu A1 combo (with AMS lite) for a little over $500 during their winter sale and I love it. It's a very user friendly printer, the AMS allows you print with 4 colors, and many 3D printing business content creators here on yt swear by it.
I have a print garden. Not quite a farm yet. Started about 4 months ago. Consistently making around an extra grand per month. Your videos have been a great help. Thank you.
I started my Etsy shop with one A1 Mini this year and made my first sale on June 23rd. I have two A1 Minis and did $1300 net profit this month. Ordered my next printer which is a P1S to scale up my little farm. Not bad for a side business I run on my spare time that might take off and be my main gig someday.
I just got my Bambulab A1 mini. I’ve been experimenting a lot with it. And it’s been super fun. However, I am located in Colombia, South America. And Etsy is not supported in my country. Do you have any advice on how to best sell my products?
Now that 3D printers are so prevalent (comparatively to the past), and they are so easy to use - the whole 3D printing farm for money being pushed by youtubers like this just is not a reality in 2025. Sure there are exceptions, and you really have to have a niche product that you have designed, but in general the whole 3D printing market is oversaturated. Tubers will casually show numbers like, make $1000 in 30 days - but they are just not realistic in todays market. Don't be fooled into thinking you can buy a couple Bambu printers, and just find some stuff on printables and sell it, and start raking in a couple thousand a month on your "side hustle". Most these dudes are making way more on their video's then they do selling 3d printed parts.
$7651 in labor costs? I think that deserves a video. Everyone talks about how much you can make per month. How you need to make X per printing hour. But I have yet to see how you turn that incomes into money you can use to live on. If only doing this as a side hustle. Or something to leave our 9-5's for. We need some general idea of how that it is done. Or point me to a video that does. Thank you.
your cost for filament is only 1.4% of sales? that seems very low. Even for keychains mine is slightly higher than that, and for most products, significantly higher
Quick tip - trading money for time is recommended only when the time you gain is used to make more money than the amount of money you spent to gain that time.
Who plans on starting their 3d printing business in 2025?
Yes Sir!
Me
I’ve already sort of started. Have a few designs already but haven’t made any sales yet. Will hit it hard for the new year.
Retired with IT background. Want to start. What would be my first best reasonably priced printer for around up to $500.?
@@cjlowe1650 I recently purchased my Bambu A1 combo (with AMS lite) for a little over $500 during their winter sale and I love it. It's a very user friendly printer, the AMS allows you print with 4 colors, and many 3D printing business content creators here on yt swear by it.
I have a print garden. Not quite a farm yet. Started about 4 months ago. Consistently making around an extra grand per month. Your videos have been a great help. Thank you.
That's fantastic, I am glad they're helping!
bro talks about Flashforge, but has a full spread of Bambu P1S's behind him lol
I started my Etsy shop with one A1 Mini this year and made my first sale on June 23rd. I have two A1 Minis and did $1300 net profit this month. Ordered my next printer which is a P1S to scale up my little farm. Not bad for a side business I run on my spare time that might take off and be my main gig someday.
Congrats, thats awesome.
Menards has 6'x24" shelf wood (white, black, etc), that's what I put on my shelves from Sams Club. Been running it for 2 years and it works great.
I just got my Bambulab A1 mini. I’ve been experimenting a lot with it. And it’s been super fun. However, I am located in Colombia, South America. And Etsy is not supported in my country. Do you have any advice on how to best sell my products?
Also do i buy one of the new multi color printers?
Now that 3D printers are so prevalent (comparatively to the past), and they are so easy to use - the whole 3D printing farm for money being pushed by youtubers like this just is not a reality in 2025. Sure there are exceptions, and you really have to have a niche product that you have designed, but in general the whole 3D printing market is oversaturated. Tubers will casually show numbers like, make $1000 in 30 days - but they are just not realistic in todays market. Don't be fooled into thinking you can buy a couple Bambu printers, and just find some stuff on printables and sell it, and start raking in a couple thousand a month on your "side hustle". Most these dudes are making way more on their video's then they do selling 3d printed parts.
$7651 in labor costs? I think that deserves a video. Everyone talks about how much you can make per month. How you need to make X per printing hour. But I have yet to see how you turn that incomes into money you can use to live on. If only doing this as a side hustle. Or something to leave our 9-5's for. We need some general
idea of how that it is done. Or point me to a video that does. Thank you.
The video you’re asking for is definitely in our queue. I hope to post it early 2025.
i thought u were using all elegoo black?
Good on you
your cost for filament is only 1.4% of sales? that seems very low. Even for keychains mine is slightly higher than that, and for most products, significantly higher
Quick tip - trading money for time is recommended only when the time you gain is used to make more money than the amount of money you spent to gain that time.
I am also a real estate broker very much interested in 3d printing. I have a Bambu P1S with AMS and I love it.
That's a great combo for a print farm!