| Original Train & Rail [message #26741] Fri, 29 April 2011 16:05 UTC |
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I write under my second username (my other is... fx2 -what a surprise!-).Since the beginning of the Shapeways private beta launch in mid 2008, I printed railway stuff using Shapeways. Until now, it was only for myself.
Since we can't open a second shop under the same username, I used my "old" username. After several attempts where several javascripts errors were thrown -the same kind of errors that led me in the past to create my second account !-, I was able to open it! 
I create some original railway scale accessories that aren't made by any manufacturer I'm aware of. I will testprint them in the new material as soon I hit the $25 min. order. they have some fine features, but I think the parts should look nice once printed, or at least be recognisable... I already printed parts in the past* with this technology.
I'm really wondering if Shapeways can be a suitable platform to sell this kind of very specialized scenery accessories or if I need to use a well-known online auction site to sell repackaged items... Future will tell.
*Shapeways didn't existed then, or maybe as top-secret early alpha under another name...
Shapeways shop first page seems to be well indexed by Google. However that's apparently not the case with the product pages.That's why I try the following below.
---Please don't mind, gg indexing experiment below---
H0 1:87 hydrant / borne d'incendie à l'échelle 1/87ème HO
[Updated on: Fri, 29 April 2011 16:06 UTC]
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| Re: Original Train & Rail [message #26764 is a reply to message #26741 ] Fri, 29 April 2011 22:08 UTC |
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fx:
I'm glad you were able to open your shop. We have (just today) deployed some improvements to the javascript that was a frequent cause of problems, and we've also reorganized the process with our new My Shapeways section of the site.
We'd be happy to hear your feedback on this site update; we're hoping it's a helpful improvement for our community members like you!
-Ben
Shapeways Front-End Product Lead
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| Re: Original Train & Rail [message #26944 is a reply to message #26741 ] Wed, 04 May 2011 16:00 UTC |
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fx:
We're working on streamlining the upload process this week. The first phase will be to simplify the existing upload page, and then we'll shift next week to work on multi-file uploading. (Plus or minus some time to work on other things that may arise.)
I've received similar feedback from other power users about multi-uploading, so that's clearly a current pain point, and why I'm addressing it now.
Setting a model's state to Hidden is going to get a better UI in the ongoing work, and when you use the multi-upload feature, you'll be able to set this property for the whole batch in one click.
I do have a user feature voting mechanism in the roadmap, but it's far down the line. I don't expect it to happen for many months, if even this year! The forum is my interim solution.
Thanks for the input.
-Ben
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| Re: Original Train & Rail [message #26947 is a reply to message #26944 ] Wed, 04 May 2011 16:03 UTC |
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Apologies, that was me posting the above response from a test account.
-Ben
Shapeways Front-End Product Lead
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