“A customer can come to our website, they bring their files in whatever format they use, they can drag and drop them into our website, it gives them an instant price, it gives them certainty on when they'll be manufactured, it tells them if there's any issues with manufacturing and then they check out pay by card and we ship...”
Max Olson · NZ Tech Podcast · AI, Engineering and the Future of Startups with Max Olson
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What was described
Built an instant-quote laser-cutting website where customers drag-and-drop design files, receive an automatic price and manufacturability feedback, then checkout and have parts shipped
Said nearby on the same subject
“The whole way as we bring these new services online it always comes with instant quote and manufacturability feedback so that the customer knows what they can and can't build without having to ask us”
“I’m a big believer in kind of the lean manufacturing mentality where we want our suppliers close to where our manufacturing is, close to where our customers are.”
“What happens is companies make these promotions and then they stop talking about it but the promotion still is on the books. Remember that years back, the price match guarantee? What I would do is I went and I found a cheaper one and I was like, hey, based on your website, you still have this price match guarantee.”