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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:24PM (#10690875)
After several months of fine-tuning our process, we are launching today as Lasergist. Lasergist is easy laser cutting for designers, engineers and anyone who can use Adobe Illustrator or Autocad. And we managed to make it cheap. AND provide free worldwide shipping. And it's 100% made in europe by Japan-made lasers (Mazak) and German/Swedish Stainless Steel.

We are launching with a special 30% discount for HN! Just use the coupon HNSPECIAL

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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by nona on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:01PM (#10694057)
Just a thought, but maybe it'd be nice to allow people to (optionally of course) mark their uploads as "OK for public use" – using a CC license or something. This way other visitors can see and maybe choose from a gallery of earlier designs. Even nicer would be if people could get a small discount in return…
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by knicholes on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:12PM (#10694115)
This is what cookiecaster.com does, and it's awesome.
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by swah on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:29PM (#10691443)
Great execution. You could just provide a bunch of samples that people can order right away! The designs in your photos, common names/signs...
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:55PM (#10691699)
That's a great idea! We can sure do this quickly.
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by paxtonab on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:25PM (#10691962)
Put some examples of past orders up on your discover page!
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:31PM (#10692019)
Others suggested this too! Wouldn't do this without permission, so assuming that we launched today and first orders will start shipping Wednesday - maybe by next week we can have some designs featured!
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by patrickfl on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:37PM (#10692496)
Maybe for people just looking to do plain text / fonts that can't do design in illustrator / CAD make a text box?
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @05:34PM (#10693299)
Maybe a few stencil fonts would do the job but common fonts wouldn't work because of letters like R, P, etc. Noted however, sounds like a cool addition.
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by LeeUmm on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:27PM (#10690921)
Looks great. A heads up though. On your discover page under the 'process' section, the design guideline link goes nowhere.
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:29PM (#10690930)
Thanks!! Let's fix this right now.
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:31PM (#10690954)
Changed! Thanks for the heads up.
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by tombrossman on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:19PM (#10692372)
You should probably add HTTPS too, especially for the account login page. Since you are using CloudFlare you can add it for free and this is best practice.
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by jimant on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:40PM (#10692524)
Noted and 100% agree with you. We'd go for Comodo most probably but we'll have a look at cloudflare too!
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by iancarroll on Monday December 07, 2015 @04:02PM (#10692675)
Let's Encrypt launched; you can get free 90-day certificates automatically: https://letsencrypt.org/
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Re:Show HN: Lasergist.com – Your custom design in pure, lase... by matmann2001 on Monday December 07, 2015 @06:05PM (#10693478)
You don't see too many Mazaks in Europe. Where are you guys based?
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