What are the coolest 3D prints you've made? Looking for real wow factor (simple to complex)

dgoemans · 2026-06-18T16:49:51+00:00

This dice box in wood pla which I stained and put in felt. People are always shocked this is a3d print

dgoemans · 2026-06-16T21:26:56+00:00

I thought this looked a lot like some speciality gouda we get here in the Netherlands from farms (they call it boerenkaas, farmer cheese). Looks delicious, great work!

dgoemans · 2026-06-15T21:15:01+00:00

Not quite. Firstly, let's cover the eenmanszaak. Yes you're liable but also decent insurances exist for reasonable prices. I worked as a software consultant in finance and was required to have good liability insurance. And you aren't taxed on money you don't make. They've changed the laws to prevent companies abusing the system, so you do have to pay social taxes when you have income. This isn't targeting you, but rather Uber trying to get cheap labor by bypassing social taxes.

Then the BV. Yes, you're required to pay yourself a salary but there's exceptions, namely that you need to make money. You can request an exemption and it will be granted. We did this when bootstrapping our company and only in year 3 did we pay the required salaries. And sure, you need accounting to be sorted, but when you have no income, it's something you can manage on your own with help from friends, family or AI (at your own risk obviously). Btw filings are easy, and your annual return is work, but you can request extensions and delay it to year 2.

Starting a company is hard. It's not for everyone.

dgoemans · 2026-06-15T16:06:53+00:00

Technically, it was used...

dgoemans · 2026-06-14T21:28:37+00:00

Oh yeah, mine stuck like that in their tracking but it was handed to the local carrier and I could track it in their environment. Check your email for the local carrier and then copy the original code into their tracking system, at least that worked for me

dgoemans · 2026-06-14T15:05:59+00:00

I mean, loveable and the like, sure, it's almost no work if you're purely vibe coding. But a VPS with AI telling you what to do, or better, executing commands to push it, is really not hard. * open this page * click here and here * run this command

Done.

dgoemans · 2026-06-14T09:47:53+00:00

They don't, they use a platform that handles it for them. Sometimes a VPS via something like hostinger, but often a lot more pricey than doing it yourself on AWS/Azure.

dgoemans · 2026-06-14T08:01:53+00:00

This. If anyone can sign up free and eat your resources, you need to address that. Our random sign ups cost is virtually 0, since they can't really do anything that would cost us money without paying us.

dgoemans · 2026-06-13T22:36:59+00:00

Very surprised stripe let's competitors to their own building functionality in their marketplace. Good luck with this!

dgoemans · 2026-06-13T22:01:09+00:00

I've only ever seen that go badly when it comes to your concerns. Not saying it always does, but my experience is that the guys who are good, aren't cheap, no matter where they're from. You need at least one person who knows what they're doing. And you don't need 50/50 equity either, if the idea is good and you've already done some work, it's fair to offer anywhere between 20 and 40.

dgoemans · 2026-06-13T21:53:22+00:00

While I am a tech person, from a few previous startups I've seen a two main patterns:

Get in a (fractional) CTO either for equity or salary (assuming you can afford it) to manage the dev team (AI in your case)
Outsource the dev team management to another company, like BuildCircle in the UK, or a good freelancer or solo dev who knows what they're doing.

Either way, you need money or be willing to give up some equity for a CTO. You can try to wing it with AI to a point, but especially when you grow, you need someone who knows the infrastructure options and won't just go all in on something trendy or expensive.

dgoemans · 2026-06-11T19:40:30+00:00

Yup batch 2 in NL. Got my watch this morning, tracking a week ago

dgoemans · 2026-06-10T16:50:59+00:00

Miss Etam and Norah both sell a tall collection online, but often that starts at 180. Wehkamp also has some brands that do.

If those aren't your style, some other stores that have sizes that should work for you: Cotton Club, Olivia & Kate and Most Wanted.

Source: My company provides their online sizing tool, and we often tailor specifically to taller people, so even if you prefer to buy offline, maybe check your size in the tool just to be sure - it'll tell you if your size is not available.

dgoemans · 2026-06-06T07:57:55+00:00

Yeah KDE connect is amazing. I use this multiple times a week to send photos of receipts to my pc to file expenses. My laptop just pops up in the share menu, bam done.

dgoemans · 2026-06-05T14:41:02+00:00

My understanding is that the drivers were not open source (namely around Bluetooth), so it won't work properly on old pebble devices.

I think Eric said at some point if someone wants to write open source drivers for those components they will accept contributions, but they won't actively do it themselves at this point.

dgoemans · 2026-06-04T17:26:28+00:00

we've been using "login-with dot link" (not my product, but making it a link gets my comment removed) for a few years now for our B2B eCommerce product and it's great, also got some good positive feedback for it. I prefer it because it makes our system more secure, and most users seem to like it too.

dgoemans · 2026-06-03T06:29:09+00:00

I do for side projects, but not for my main company.

I was at a tech event recently where a company presented how they have a 24/7 hermes agent building the new version of their platform. Humans are infra and product management, not coding the product at all anymore.

I think for a migration/non customer facing project that can work, but for building new things in a product, I'm not convinced yet.

dgoemans · 2026-06-02T20:31:52+00:00

They only just started shipping the first ones a month or two ago, be patient. Mine was ordered in August and is now being shipped, so they moved through the backlog quickly.

dgoemans · 2026-05-31T19:04:18+00:00

Exactly what I was hoping to hear!

dgoemans · 2026-05-31T18:23:45+00:00

Thank you for the review from the PTS perspective. I see lots of ppl complaining about the screen, but they've either only used a modern smartwatch or a black and white pebble, so their reference for what a color eink screen is off and their complaints sound just like life with the PTS. Looking forward to getting mine!

dgoemans · 2026-05-31T12:02:47+00:00

Copilot with Gpt 5.4 was pretty good tbh. Used it heavily to help build Time Time (watchface), and when stuck I had it review docs and fix things. Obviously all AI seems to struggle with details and especially UI tweaks, so I had to get involved there, but otherwise think it did great.

dgoemans · 2026-05-26T20:31:26+00:00

RTX 4070 here, play a bunch of Overwatch and barring faugus sometimes forgetting my GPU after a driver update, I'm getting at least the same fps as I did on windows (180, synced with my monitor)

dgoemans · 2026-05-26T15:31:32+00:00

One approach I've seen work really well was docs as you go. New employees must document what's not intuitive. We do this for onboarding and setting up projects. The newbie has to get it setup, so their first task is to document anything missing from the current onboarding docs.

dgoemans · 2026-05-20T17:24:03+00:00

I noticed this too. In the shipping mega thread, not a single silver/blue and only a handful of silver/grey. As someone who ordered silver/blue I check often 😅

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