"Ponoko describes itself as the world’s first personal manufacturing platform where anyone can click to make, buy and sell digital products. Ponoko is the brainchild of software entrepreneurs Dave ten Have and Derek Elley. The business was founded on ‘the disappointing experience people face when making (individualized) products’, citing complexity and high financially and environmental costs. Encouraged by the rise of what they call the Internet connected ‘creative-class’, along with Join discussion...

"Ponoko is a user manufacturing platform based in Wellington, New Zealand, where anyone can click to make, buy and sell digital products. Users upload designs, Ponoko manufactures them for them using rapid manufacturing technology, and send the result to users. If they like and approve the result, users then can start to sell their designs (and products) to others using Ponoko’s online shop and distribution system." Join discussion...