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How to find 3D printer companion apps Instagram creators
I still start with the same avatar. Instagram is a different room than TikTok. Reels, the grid, and the bio email are different. The person is not.
The person: US English, 22-40, already bounced off a printer app that was a second slicer and a Discord of fail photos, watches ‘I left a spaghetti for six hours’ and garage-printer videos from a phone at work. They watch spaghetti-for-six-hours, remote-watch, ‘the app is another slicer’, Discord-fail-photos. They already tried the printer’s own app that is a slicer, a Discord of fail photos, and a webcam they forgot to check. Skip the 400k print-influencer whose grid is a $3k machine unboxing.
Instagram printing is stills of machines; TikTok is the spaghetti. Email the spaghetti.
What I actually do on Instagram
Fresh account. Real phones. I try to put myself in the shoes of the person who would download this. Linger, save, like, comment as if I were them. Once the algorithm is trained I take whoever keeps showing up in Reels and in the feed.
Ideally over 50k average. Below that they quote $700 a post for 1k views. That’s a money sink.
Example I want to see: someone coming home to a spaghetti they could have stopped at lunch. Signal: the same spaghetti-at-lunch face two workdays.
I prefer email. The contact is usually in a small garage-print bio. Just send a short note. Name a real Reel. Ask for the phone number. Don’t start the deal over email. If they won’t, move on.
Reels vs FYP
TikTok’s For You is a night session for spaghetti-for-six-hours, remote-watch, ‘the app is another slicer’, Discord-fail-photos. Instagram still has a grid, a bio, and a Shop sticker. Instagram printing is stills of machines; TikTok is the spaghetti. Email the spaghetti.
Do not copy the TikTok outreach into a DM that looks like a bot. The call is still the job. Minimum View Guarantee. Example: $2000 / 4 posts / 1M views. Talent extra.
Like a $3k unboxing and you will leave the spaghetti-at-lunch people. Doing it by hand is kind of soul-crushing. Scout is $1,500/month.
The TikTok-side essay is How we find creators by scrolling a real TikTok avatar. First person: How I find influencers. Money: jumptrend.co/for/3d-printer-apps.
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