Tackling the big boys
Hi community of reddit r/manufacturing
I'm a young man aspiring to start a manufacturing business. Its hard to find first hand experience out on Google or blogs and posts.
I am very ignorant to this whole thing. I have started manufacturing a couple products here in the US, I have yet to close a deal. I have been using 3d printers to manufacture my products that I have also designed but i havent found yet a retailer willing to sell them and sales, that is not my true passion I only care about making stuff so I haven't really explored that much.
This is a very vague and broad question and will probably get my post removed but truly I have no idea how or where to start and I'm just exploring about to see what I can learn and find out.
Where and how do manufacturing business usually start? What does the industry look like in terms of business? What should I expect?
Really nothing will shut me down, I'll do anything because this is what I love no matter how hard it is.
I take this very seriously, I don't 3d print slop, I genuinely make efforts and have made other really cool stuff but I want my stuff to be industry standard and I want people to have my stuff.
I have made multiple makeshift machines to make stuff from packaging, rigid compact wallets, bluetooth speakers, laminated business cards, automatic paper cutters. I keep a tolerance of 5 thousands of an inch for all my product design, I possess intermediate knowledge and basic experience on electronic related stuff and circuits. I have a some experience prototyping and posses some knowledge in material sciences. I am familiar with some cnc machines and have some experience with lathes and mills. Both cnc and manual. I also have very good experience 3d printed I said above. I just love making stuff and figuring out ways to make stuff to make other stuff and making large quantities of more stuff.