Looked into moving from 3D-printed cases to plastic injection molding
3D printing currently costs me $7/case, but there’s only one manufacturer who can do it with the material I want and they can only make ~3 per day.
Quote for plastic injection molding was $20k upfront cost to make the molds. And then $6/case after.
Going to try and get other quotes and tweak the design, as the current case design is optimized for 3D printing. There are design changes we can make to optimize for plastic injection molding.
Continued working on adding support for virtual storage
Added a warning on the checkout page if a customer is ordering both a power connector + a product that already includes a connector
Sometimes a user orders both not realizing that their other product already includes it, but half the time they don’t, so I email them to confirm, which is slow and manual. Hopefully this prevents the issue.
Added TinyPilot as a sponsor for the Ansible for DevOps git repo
It’s listed as one of the perks of sponsoring him, but I didn’t see anyone else doing it, and I kind of thought he’d ignore my PR, but he accepted it and seemed excited about it.
Add CI checks to make sure whitespace is consistent
I should have done this from the beginning, but I was afraid I wouldn’t finish recording the course in time
I ended up wrapping up the recording and editing with a day to spare, so I figured I’d create a landing page to sell it a little better
Part of the motivation is also that I want to give myself the freedom to switch from Gumroad to a different platform. If I go around promoting it everywhere pointing directly to the Gumroad URL, then I’m basically married to Gumroad forever.
Finished the last of my recording and editing
Pitched myself as a podcast guest to an Indie Hacker-esque podcast (not Indie Hackers)
Reached out to a HN-adjacent site for possible sponsorship / affiliate deal
