One place to run a small maker workshop.
Makinist brings the online shop, wholesale orders, production costs and the printers into one system, so a small 3D-printing or laser workshop knows what to make next and what each job really earns.
Screens from our first customer's workshop, in Turkish.
Small workshops run on five apps and a spreadsheet
We started with one 3D-printing workshop in Türkiye: five printers in the back room, a shop on the web, dealers ordering by phone and marketplace listings on the side. This is what we saw.
Orders everywhere
Retail orders, dealer orders and custom requests arrive in different places, and nobody sees them in one list.
Margins nobody sees
Filament, electricity, machine time, failed prints and marketplace commission are rarely added up per product, so some sales lose money without anyone noticing.
Walking to the printers
Someone has to go and look to know whether a print finished or failed.
What is built today
Every line below runs in code we have written and tested. The labels say where each part stands.
Shop and orders Live
Online shop with retail and wholesale prices, dealer accounts, payment terms and order tracking.
Live at our first customer since 9 October 2026.
Costs and stock Live
Per-job cost from filament, electricity, machine time and waste, with stock and expenses in the same ledger.
Printer monitoring Pilot
A small bridge on the workshop PC reads Bambu Lab printers on the local network and raises an alert when a job ends. It only reads; it never sends print commands.
Tested end to end with five simulated printers; the first workshop install is next.
Owner app Testing
iPhone app for the owner: today's sales, open orders, printers and the cost of every finished job.
Instant quote from a 3D file Testing
A customer uploads an STL file and sees a price range at once; the owner checks the file and confirms the final price.
Next
- Marketplace sync for Trendyol, Hepsiburada and Amazon
- Commission-aware prices that warn before a sale loses money
- Online payments, and links to e-invoice and accounting tools
- Laser cutters and CNC machines next to 3D printers
- Shop templates for new workshops
- A listing writer built on Claude for product texts in Turkish and English
How we build
Makinist is built by a solo founder with AI coding agents. Claude Code plans and reviews every change and runs the tests. The shop runs on a server in Frankfurt; printers are only read, never controlled.
Founder
Etka Ahmet Bulut builds Makinist in Niğde, Türkiye. He is a self-taught developer who also ships the iPhone apps Nöra and Kuzey Maps, and Civesto, software for public authorities.
Early access
We are taking on a small number of 3D-printing and laser workshops in Türkiye. Tell us about yours.