Printables added incentives. They’ve gamified it, there’s badges and ranks and you can earn Prusa Points to redeem for filament or, if you collect enough, 3D printers! They have a marketplace where you can sell your STLs for actual money.
It’s also full of slop. They ran a “Valentine’s Day” contest, so it became impossible to browse through pages and pages of red benchies with hearts added or flexi dragons with hearts added or any other stereotypical 3D printer shit printed in red with hearts added. Scroll past that, through the 67 memes and anime titties and you hit the thick layer of random geometric shapes.
Stratasys and Ultimaker already killed it.
Yeah it has been dogshit for years which is why Printables and Makerworld are so popular.
Printables added incentives. They’ve gamified it, there’s badges and ranks and you can earn Prusa Points to redeem for filament or, if you collect enough, 3D printers! They have a marketplace where you can sell your STLs for actual money.
It’s also full of slop. They ran a “Valentine’s Day” contest, so it became impossible to browse through pages and pages of red benchies with hearts added or flexi dragons with hearts added or any other stereotypical 3D printer shit printed in red with hearts added. Scroll past that, through the 67 memes and anime titties and you hit the thick layer of random geometric shapes.