Our story
SimplyPrint wasn't born from market research or a startup accelerator. It started because three high school students couldn't find the software they needed.
In 2017, we convinced our high school to buy seven 3D printers. The technology was fascinating, but the software around it was not. Starting a print meant fumbling with SD cards, juggling multiple programs, and keeping seven browser tabs open for seven printers. We tried what was available at the time - 3DPrinterOS, PolarCloud, AstroPrint, OctoPrint - but none of them solved the real problem: 3D printers just weren't simple to use, and the tools didn't give us the workflow or ecosystem we wanted.
So we built our own interface. A basic dashboard that let students and teachers start prints remotely and see the status of every printer at a glance. Suddenly the printers didn't just gather dust anymore. In April 2019, we shared some screenshots of it in a Danish 3D printing Facebook group - and to our surprise, a hundred people wanted it for their own printers. We weren't the only ones looking for this.
In January 2020, straight out of high school, the three of us - Albert, Mathias and Carl - started working full-time on what quickly became SimplyPrint. We set out to build the 3D printing ecosystem we had wished existed: filament management, better file handling, real printer metrics, multi-printer support that actually worked, and a design that didn't feel like it was made in 2005. Today, with the help of tens of thousands of users who saw the same potential, that's exactly what we've built.
