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by salusinarduis 638 days ago
I've seen people 3D printing this exact thing on Instagram for months.
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It's impossible because I made it myself and released today. Read the blog post please :)
They might be talking about this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3nWw8qSYgk

Yeah people were showing off something very like this on YouTube a week or two ago. And that’s actually the second time I’ve seen these. I think you got scooped bro.

I came here to see if anyone is selling them. I don’t have a printer.

If you read the post, you'll see that OP was inspired by a similar design (which is linked as an embedded YT video) but designed his own to fit his other needs, i.e. making the back part a tray.
I’m responding directly to OP saying it’s impossible for someone to have seen another of these because he just made it.

How else would you describe the situation?

Well maybe "designed" stands for "chose the color of"?

Or multiple people had the same idea..

Article clearly says that he saw the existing ones and decided to tweak it for his use case? He didn't say he invented and patented it. Weird thing to complain about.