Let's say there's a simple plastic doo-dad of a specific variety you want to buy. you feel like it'd be a cool thing to have, and you could see others wanting it. Enough that you'd be willing to invest a bit into creating a product. But when you search for it, it seems nobody is selling quite the thing you want. Maybe they have something kinda close, but not close enough. So you think maybe you should be the one selling it. Has anyone done this? Presumably you find a manufacturer in China somewhere and you create designs using, what, Blender? And you ask them for a quote and then buy 10,000? Or is there a better way? And what are the 500 steps along the way that I'm missing? submitted by /u/limbodog [link] [comments]