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Hi! I am new to Hubs and am hoping to buy a printer and start a Hub. I searched for this topic and did not find anything, so if you know of an existing thread I would be happy to start by reading that.

When I searched my local region for Hubs I noticed that there is one within my neighborhood. Their quality rating is lower than the machine that I am considering so we would not totally overlap in markets but I wonder if there are “norms” for how close to each other hubs should be. If there are norms that would discourage my starting a new hub so close, how have other people gotten around that? Would I just agree to market in a different territory? Do other hubs just ignore each other territory wise and just compete for the jobs?

Thanks for your help!

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@chaptor do you have the 3d printer review? It s a decent guide for 3d printing…wil sent it to you todat Greetz alf

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Hi chaptor, looking forward to having you on board :slight_smile: First things first, though!

1. Here’s some info on how to start your own hub: Become a manufacturing partner today | Hubs | Hubs.

2. Regarding the ‘competition’ aspect, it’s important to understand that there are many criteria on which customers choose a hub, besides the geographical one, such as printer, type of materials they’re using, pricing, reviews, response time or hub profile (images of prints you made for example).

Hope this helps!

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Thanks!

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Thanks for your help. I have looked at that page and will study it some more. Looking at machine reviews etc. I want to start at a good quality but without sinking myself financially, so snooping around a bit first.

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