Our Story
Hi, I’m Claire! I’m 13 and want to be an engineer someday. I have a few 3D printers and sell things my dad or I designed, plus some stuff I just like. I started my business in October 2023, when I was 11, making a cool golf stand my dad designed. People on Facebook wanted to buy it, so I learned how to print and ship them. That’s how Claire’s Prints was born!
It got way bigger than I expected, especially after a YouTuber named Joe Lagowski made a review video and more people found out about my stuff. Now I’m even selling on Amazon! I never thought it would turn into something this huge, and I’ve learned so much along the way. Since it has gotten so big my Dad and I work on the business together now and as people requested we worked on designing additional products.
When we first started I had to solder each connection. It took a lot of time. Our printers were a lot slower too! So we could only make so many of them.
Early on I was pretty impressed with myself the weekend I mailed out 25 stands.
Within a few months we had to upgrade our printers. My Dad helped me set up this station with 4 printers.
My dad and I began having to have Family build parties where we would build a lot of stands all at once. We improved our processes, ordered boxes and parts custom made for us (no more soldering!). It also allowed us to improve the quality too!
I now own 6 printers, and I employ 4 of my friends at school to help me build. We send out over 200 stands a month. Things got so busy my dad helps me a lot and my mom hits print again on the printers while I am school so that we can keep up.