u/ShopFloorBuild

I'm a machinist with 12 years in the trade building a documentation and knowledge platform designed around how shops actually operate — not how textbooks say they do.

The goal is to give machinists a structured place to store cutting recipes, machine-specific procedures, setup strategies, and lessons learned — all organized around their specific equipment and workflow.

Right now too much valuable knowledge lives in people's heads or gets passed down inconsistently. New operators are left guessing. Experienced guys retire and take everything with them.

I'm looking for feedback from CNC operators and machinists — what's missing in your current workflow? What do you find yourself Googling at the machine that you shouldn't have to? What would a useful reference tool actually need to include?

Early development stage — your input will directly shape what gets built. Comment below or DM me if you want to be involved.

I've been in this trade for 12 years and like a lot of you, I learned most of it the hard way — thrown on a machine, expected to figure it out, and hoping the guy next to me had time to answer a question.

I'm building a platform specifically for machinists. The idea is simple — a place to document what you know, lock down your cutting recipes, log lessons learned, and build a reference that's actually custom to your machine, your shop, and your day to day situations.

New machinists shouldn't have to spend years piecing together knowledge that should have been handed to them from day one. And experienced machinists shouldn't have to keep that knowledge locked in their heads with no good place to put it.

I'm in early development and I want input from real people in the trade — what do you wish you had when you started? What does your shop still not have documented that it should? What would actually be useful to you at the machine?

Drop your thoughts below or DM me if you're interested in being part of shaping this. All feedback welcome.