Getting back into the swing of things
Hello again,
Well so much for writing more often. 🤨 It’s not for a lack of time or things to write about, quite the opposite. I’ve been cranking out all sorts of things; more shop organization, dialing up/in manufacturing processes on the cnc-router, two local community websites, a community map, a new app, a Wii balance board hack, lots of updates to the website, researching new colors for products, diving deep into code generated 3D printing, and most exciting of all… ramping up production of some human crafted favorites for the holiday season.
Since I’m so far behind, for todays message let’s focus on those new (old) products:
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Getting straight to the point, I have 4 classic products on the site and listed for sale! You can now once again order the Tissue Dispenser, Bath Container, Acrylic Trees, and Acrylic Robin, in some fun new colors.
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To get these products listed I overhauled the website and hooked up Stripe checkout. These e-comm features are all built from “scratch” which means they are not costing me any additional subscriptions and I host everything. In fact, most of the content is just stored as simple text files that I can edit easily. There is some Claude-supported wizardry going on in the background, but nothing super complex.
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As neat as the e-comm features are, that wasn’t what was keeping me from putting these products back out there for so long. I
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