Dear Shapeways Community,
Today we launched
Spring & Wonder. It’s a brand, storefront, and jewelry collection that we built in 2 months. We are proud of the collection and hope you love the jewelry. But Shapeways didn’t do this to become a jewelry store, we did it for you.
Spring & Wonder shows what’s possible. It demonstrates what our platform can do-- and the vision for services we are developing. We published a blueprint to showcase the future of commerce with the step-by-step creation of Spring & Wonder. It’s a guide to design, make and sell products manufactured via 3D printing. You can download it
here.
Because we are doing something pretty foreign to most people, we thought it would be helpful to show not just tell. With Spring & Wonder, you can use the customizer technology we developed to embed in a Shopify site. You can order seamlessly from our factory. You’ll receive custom packaging and fully assembled jewelry. You’ll see the high quality of 3D printing at market prices.
I’m sure the first question is, “Is it available for me now?” Many of you have asked us for these services and that was why we built them. Many of the services are currently in beta testing with 2-3 customers. Custom packaging, for example, is not ready for a wider audience yet. However, others we are actively scaling, like upgrading our API to make a more sophisticated integration with our logistics platform. All of these services are now available through our in-house development team, yet not all of them for the full community yet! We outline how to get more information in the
guide.
Whether jewelry, gaming, drone parts, prosthetics, glasses, home decor or beyond, the Shapeways platform turns ideas into physical products and helps you sell them to the world.
I have spoken to many of you over the past few weeks either by email or meet and greets. We’ve had some heated, excited, inspired, and supportive conversations! Whether positive or constructive feedback, we welcome it and thank you for caring so much to tell us.
We are excited to show you Spring & Wonder!
Greg
CEO of Shapeways