It looks like there's a business opportunity here for someone to make a really slick browser based LEGO editor that does cost estimates and orders all the correct components for you when you're finished. I'm curious how large the market for such a thing would be.
I remember using it in middle school and the prices were quite high. It was a great idea but no parents wanted to pay an extra premium on top of an already expensive product.
BrickStock is an OSX application that takes your Lego Digital Designer files and breaks them out into a manifest, which it then uses to reference the BrickLink marketplace for pricing.
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It looks like there's a business opportunity here for someone to make a really slick browser based LEGO editor that does cost estimates and orders all the correct components for you when you're finished. I'm curious how large the market for such a thing would be.
LEGO itself had such a service, but shut it down in 2012: http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/subpages/designbyme
I remember using it in middle school and the prices were quite high. It was a great idea but no parents wanted to pay an extra premium on top of an already expensive product.
BrickStock is an OSX application that takes your Lego Digital Designer files and breaks them out into a manifest, which it then uses to reference the BrickLink marketplace for pricing.
https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/studio.page
There's this: https://www.mecabricks.com/en/workshop
No integrated purchase though.
I see. As with any decent obvious idea, it's already been done 10x better than I could hope to. Thanks.