I2C_Jason
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Tuesday 16 June 2026 22:49:45 GMT
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I2C_Jason :
One thing is for sure, my goal as the founder is to nudge the Promptly3D marketplace toward local, decentralized, distributed, small scale manufacturing. I believe this will inherently bring a living wage, BUT, you have to earn it and self employ. This has been my formula for 22 years and I fully intent to export it to others. At Promptly3D.ai, we have not sent out any emails yet to the waitlist, fyi. I don’t want to spam anyone. Also we’re leaning toward open sourcing this platform after the MVP and nuking any paid CAD, worldwide. Run your AI local, air gapped, and optionally meshed into whichever manufacturing network you prefer. Maybe even plugged in via Meshtastic for unstoppable distribution. Promptly3D will be one such marketplace, but we anticipate many more marketplaces sprouting up as a result of this platform.
2026-06-16 22:50:08
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Boside :
I think living wage is a metaphysical problem. By wage you mean income and living you mean needs being met. Living wage is a concept where you’re labor value is extracted and a wage is paid out in a currency. To bring it into something like promptly3D or hubs or xiometry, you’re “wage” is you’re quote. It’s the price you charge to perform the work needing to be done. But what is that rate? Markets say there is a supply and demand that will create competition for that labor, and also the supply component too, that is who ever is making those parts that you’re assembling. Bringing it back now to “living wage” is a mathematical formula for what you need vs what you supply. The question is can you create valuable “enough” labor to meet the demand of your employees/workers. So would taking one promptly3D order make your labor any more valuable than taking a xiometry order. Likely no. The service being provided is labor. One order or one job will likely not pay for the GLP1 or insulin or basic electric bill that we all have. But… in the sense of curating expertise and applying it into labor value, engineers/assembly workers become the most valuable people, where that they can leverage their knowledge expertise and understanding to generate value. I love the story of the grounding cable (for home electrical) and who invented it happens to be from my alma mater. The story is leveraging a problem in electronic/electrical circuits. How and why someone thought to ground wires for residential circuits, genius. How many lives saved by one extra wire. I think in the end what people would want to know is the split. What is the service cost in working within a system like promptly3D vs hubs or xiometry. Are you taking a larger cut of that value for that service compared to hubs or xiometry. Yet to be answered like the bond investor yields are the key target will you be greedy or graceful. Uber or freelance taxi. Users will always gravitate to the simpler alternative so what from the quote stage will you do differently these are the questions that create a platform like hubs and xiometry compared to every mom and pop shop that does 3D print farms with a .stl upload on a website
2026-06-18 03:23:47
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brunoGTT :
What's the difference between Promptly3D and Xometry?
2026-06-29 05:54:19
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natedill :
Agreed. If you're self employed you're technically not a wage earner, so a marketplace like that has no responsibility to ensure a living wage. If independent contractors can't negotiate fair pay for their work, the marketplace will fail.
2026-06-16 23:11:29
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Kalex :
Honestly no. I mean there’s like freelancer.com, upwork, fiverr. I’m on there. There’s no “livable wage”
2026-06-16 23:33:00
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Nearly 40 😟 :
When it comes to freelance/ contractor or similar models, as a self employed person, you choose to accept or deny the new work request and it’s dependant on the requirements of existing projects you’ve agreed to work on. The only way you could really install a living wage element would be to get to a stage where you can commit to at least xxx jobs of $1,000 or more monthly for each specialist field/ task. Meaning IF you chose to accept each job then you’d be hitting the living wage. You’d also have to have strict guardrails against product requesters amending the scope (increasing or reducing) or you lose the ability to calculate time, value for money and/ or Margin. 👍
2026-06-17 06:53:32
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Modman :
no, youre not employing these people. imo you've created a servuce and marketplace notban employer in itself. that would be like saying etsy and amazon need to pay all their sellers a living wage
2026-06-18 10:08:33
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haohmaru133 :
I like the idea that I sit here at home doing something at the hours I’m at my best. I may not make a living wage, but make it worth my time and I am totally down for it. Why you may ask it’s 2am, I dislike what is considered normal, and I like being at home. Send me some boxes I’ll give it a go.
2026-07-13 08:27:36
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Adam Paigge :
its like uber, are they contractors or does the responsibility of having them as employees not math
2026-06-17 04:00:32
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👤 :
Universal basic income would solve a lot of problems
2026-07-11 17:19:15
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SlainByTheBelle :
Yes
2026-06-17 03:38:45
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Keveira :
being self-employed means self-responsibility for what you do for your wage, like who and what work you do. if your marketplace does not provide them a living wage, then they are responsible for going elsewhere.
2026-06-17 00:32:02
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Sentient Stardust :
I still think it’s a great idea. I still think you would be taking advantage of people. For every benefit you can list for worker A. you can list a catastrophic negative for worker B. (Uber delivery person gets hit by car). You are outsourcing your risk and washing your hands of it saying oh no look over here at an anecdote benefit. You seem well intentioned. But the next iteration of this platform/concept may not be. Probably won’t be. If your business model is to ‘take advantage of workers’ it’s not a business model. It’s a scam. If you want to succeed, ethically as a good person, your starting point needs to be the wellbeing of the humans involved in the business. All of them. So start with, how do we do we commit to a living/fair/whateveryouwantcallit wage, yes with healthcare and paid days off the whole shebang, then work your concept backwards from there to make it functional. That’s where a real business model starts from.
2026-06-27 23:05:51
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MrEveryman :
@I2C_Jason just have members sign a contract up front and have that structured so that you and the platform are not responsible for any discrepancies or disparages in funds between contractors.
2026-06-19 20:30:39
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