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by demeyer1 1285 days ago
Super excited to see Gridfinity on HN, it introduced so many new people to 3D printing as well as introductory 3D design.

It’s simple, modular storage that is practical and really grounds 3D printing in a genuinely practical use case.

To provide anecdata on how big gridfinity has become - it’s the #1 search, every week on Thangs.com, which is the largest 3D model search index available (over 14M models, and search volume is ~ 1 search every 1-1.5 seconds on Thangs). (1)

Gridfinity is literally more popular than Christmas in this community. And it’s been the top search term for a long time. (2)

There are entire subreddits dedicated to it. (3)

Zack, the guy who started it, is a genuine treasure of a human as well. Check out his YouTube channel (4), he recently built a Google Glass like device - and then shared all the designs, openly.

Disclaimer: CTO, CPO, co-founder at Thangs.com - total 3D design and 3D printing zealot

(1) https://twitter.com/Thangs3DSearch/status/160156271186268160...

(2) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hv4FBexbf6isW57j063H...

(3) https://www.reddit.com/r/gridfinity/

(4) https://www.youtube.com/c/ZackFreedman

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Wasn't Alex chapel that started this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHFK5sY8ToE
Good share!

I believe Zack started Gridfinity, but I don’t know who the very first designer was that built a modular storage system for the 3D printing community.

I’ll say this - the Gridfinity community is, from my POV, unique in how they’ve taken this and really run with it as a crowd sourced concept.

Not the same thing, and not the same approach altogether.
That's addressed in the video. Inspired, not started, as this is a different more open system.