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There have to be a bunch of serial founders reading this thread, right? Would someone please found a company to make it unnecessary for individuals to own prin

There have to be a bunch of serial founders reading this thread, right? Would someone please found a company to make it unnecessary for individuals to own printers? Even in a pandemic? Kinkos exists, but they do it really shittily. You have to go into a ginormous store filled with surly employees (and these days, covid probably), their prices per page are outrageous, oh, and to print you end up using their scary doubtless malware-laden windows machines in store. Screw that. Why not, like, Amazon locker for printing? Send a print job or several print jobs somewhere from home, have it land in a locked mail slot, go to the place and enter a code to pick it up.

paultopia 6y ago
Hell, I'd even pay for delivery. At the rate most humans use non-office printers, it would probably be worth it to pay 10 bucks once a month to have someone just drop a print off by my door.
macNchz 6y ago
I've seen these popping up in NYC but never used one: https://www.printwithme.com/ https://www.printwithme.com/
toast0 6y ago
What kind of timeline are you looking at? Would print out, stick in a large envelope, and drop in the mail work? If so, I think there are already a fair number of services that do that. And, I think it used to be a service of Compuserve or Prodigy or one of the early services; you just need a small office near major USPS hubs and you can probably get most printouts in a day or two.
908B64B197 6y ago
Make it a SaaS. There's always a bunch of print shops next to colleges. Most of them are low-tech/no tech (get there in person with your document on a thumb drive/email it to the clerk's gmail account). Make it so the local print shop can run the print server and set it's rates. You display a nice map with all the print shops close to the user and a price for the document, the user select which print shop gets the job. You handle the transaction, they take care of the job.

paultopia 6y ago

Hell, I'd even pay for delivery. At the rate most humans use non-office printers, it would probably be worth it to pay 10 bucks once a month to have someone just drop a print off by my door.

macNchz 6y ago

I've seen these popping up in NYC but never used one: https://www.printwithme.com/ https://www.printwithme.com/

toast0 6y ago

What kind of timeline are you looking at? Would print out, stick in a large envelope, and drop in the mail work? If so, I think there are already a fair number of services that do that. And, I think it used to be a service of Compuserve or Prodigy or one of the early services; you just need a small office near major USPS hubs and you can probably get most printouts in a day or two.

908B64B197 6y ago

Make it a SaaS. There's always a bunch of print shops next to colleges. Most of them are low-tech/no tech (get there in person with your document on a thumb drive/email it to the clerk's gmail account). Make it so the local print shop can run the print server and set it's rates. You display a nice map with all the print shops close to the user and a price for the document, the user select which print shop gets the job. You handle the transaction, they take care of the job.