Comment by bandrami
6 hours ago
No, you did a great job arguing my point: it's a market in the tens of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of units, so somewhere between saltwater aquaria and golf
6 hours ago
No, you did a great job arguing my point: it's a market in the tens of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of units, so somewhere between saltwater aquaria and golf
I think you’ve done a good job disproving your point that no one is buying them. Golf is a very popular hobby.
The point of this thread: the maker movement isn’t dead simply because most people don’t care about CNC machines. In reality, there are loads of makers & people who love tinkering and building things for themselves, it’s easier than ever to do so (and to build very non-trivial products for yourself), and more and more people are able to get into this.
If the maker movement was actually dead, we wouldn’t be seeing an explosion of powerful, easy-to-use manufacturing tools available at lower & lower price points.
I guess your point is that it’s not exactly mainstream, not that no one is buying them. Which is true, but who cares.
Also, there is a massive tropical aquarium store in a random strip mall a few blocks from my house. It takes up like three units.
I don't know why I let myself get triggered by some rando who has convinced himself that just because he doesn't do something it must not be popular, but here I am.