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It's free actually. The $10 / month subscription is for their Gold service which gives limited credit and removes the 3 day wait for transactions to settle.

I've used DCL for a couple of years for shipping large numbers of devices. Recommended.

http://dclcorp.com

We moved from HipChat to Slack. HipChat desktop clients on OSX were crashing all the time. Most notably after waking up from a suspend. Slack is much more stable. The transition was pretty smooth.

You can look at Karma http://yourkarma.com. They truly only charge for what you use.

NYC

Shapeways (create / sell personal designed products / 3D printing) is looking for her Manhattan office talented BACKEND and FRONTEND DEVELOPERS. We use LAMP stack with some Java stuff. Please see our job page at http://www.shapeways.com/jobs

Salary / equity based on experience

Depends on how you look at it. If you imagine that every piece is made uniquely for you to your specifications, packaged and shipped to anywhere in the world then it is quite good. And it also depends on the product. There is a lot of jewelry or Apple accessories which are very reasonably priced.

There are lots of industries riddled with IP and it is not stopping them to be huge and successful.

I think there are lots of opportunities in this market and prices will go down. But I think the whole ecosystem of 3D printing has to change to accomplish this. Maybe Shapeways can contribute to this.