"Hi Tom, we started up like our friends of Open Desk in 2013, and as writted in another comment it's a very different business model despite the fact that both are trying to build a distributed manufacturing network"

"our friends of Open Desk like us, started up in 2013.The big difference is The business model: we are trying to support indipendent designers providing an extra income to the makers that start helping them prototyping and then will earn royalties via manufacturing sub-licenses bought by other makers. We do not approve the designs, it's a community review. I'll tell our British guy to check the puzzle. thanks for the article, any question is more than welcome"