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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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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…

This is what cookiecaster.com does, and it's awesome.

Great execution. You could just provide a bunch of samples that people can order right away! The designs in your photos, common names/signs...

That's a great idea! We can sure do this quickly.

Put some examples of past orders up on your discover page!

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!

Maybe for people just looking to do plain text / fonts that can't do design in illustrator / CAD make a text box?

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.

Looks great. A heads up though. On your discover page under the 'process' section, the design guideline link goes nowhere.

Thanks!! Let's fix this right now.

Changed! Thanks for the heads up.

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.

Noted and 100% agree with you. We'd go for Comodo most probably but we'll have a look at cloudflare too!

Let's Encrypt launched; you can get free 90-day certificates automatically: https://letsencrypt.org/

You don't see too many Mazaks in Europe. Where are you guys based?

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