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A list of swag opportunities for developers
- orf 9y agoMake a google home app and you get a t-shirt and $300 gcloud credit
- swapagarwal 9y agoNice! Feel free to open an issue, or send a PR. :smile:
- hoschicz 9y agoSource?
- trashcan 9y agoLooks like it is $200 and a t-shirt: https://developers.google.com/actions/community/overview#publishing-your-first-app https://developers.google.com/actions/community/overview#pub...
- swapagarwal 9y agoAdded to the list, by @HarrisJT!
- AznHisoka 9y ago90% of startups will eagerly give you a free tshirt just for asking. They love the free marketing. No need to do stuff like submit builds, etc. I have gotten free stuff from: - IFTTT (socks) - MixPanel - CloudFlare - Elastic - infochimp - pingdom - moz - rethinkdb
- swapagarwal 9y agoThat's true. But the value of swag is increased when it's earned! :wink:
- xtony 9y agoHow do you contact these places?
- oligopoly 9y agoDo people really want to advertise tech companies by using their merchandise? You couldn't pay me enough to even entertain the thought. Lemme just pull up that poorly sitting abhorrent short sleeved Microsoft Office business shirt real quick and we are off.
- cagmz 9y ago> startups Snarkiness aside, I'd wear Microsoft gear.
- UncleEntity 9y agoMeh, the only swag I ever got was one of those 3D hand tracking fancy things whose closed-source license wasn't compatible with blender and didn't work all that well on linux. Wouldn't mind a pair of socks though...
- swapagarwal 9y agoGo for it! :cheers:
- hartator 9y agoReally like the Alexa skill thing, make me want dig into it. An Amazon echo for only 100 downloads seems easy to reach.
- swapagarwal 9y agoYep, it's a win-win! :smile:
- ukulele 9y agoSerious question: are you typing out colon-smile-colon yourself every time, or does HN convert emojis to text automatically?
- swapagarwal 9y agoI've now been accustomed to typing out emojis like this, as it's faster for me.
- andrei_says_ 9y agoAre you figuring in the privacy impact of having a hot microphone in your living space listening in 24/7?
- GhostVII 9y agoYou mean like a cell phone?
- andrei_says_ 9y agoWhile I appreciate the wit, no. More “like” an echo whose sole purpose is to listen to you, at all times. On a cell phone you can still use the phone without enabling the voice activation for Siri or google. If you’re implying that the current iOS / Android devices are set to spy without granting additional permissions, I’d like to see some proof.
- half-kh-hacker 9y agoHey, I'm wearing my Hacktoberfest t-shirt right now!
- swapagarwal 9y agoGood for you. I'm still waiting for mine though. :sad:
- jxub 9y agoIt seems HN is turning into slack with this colon emojis, you should stop using them! :wink:
- jbryson3 9y agoLove this idea - it’s upsetting to think how much more time I’m willing to put into pull requests when earning “free” stickers
- swapagarwal 9y agoCan't help it! #JustDeveloperThings
- jcoffland 9y agoI like swag with blinking lights. A buddy and I used to go to the big embedded systems conference in San Jose and compete to see who could score the most development kits. You'd have to chat with the reps a bit to show that you knew how to use their gear before they coughed up anything good. We'd walk out with a thousand dollars of free gear on a good year. How loose the reps were depended a lot on the economy that year. It was a lot of fun.
- swapagarwal 9y agoAh. The Good Ol' Days!
- username223 9y agoCheap t-shirts and socks? I'm less than impressed so far. I'm sure corps are still giving out better swag. You who are almost out of runway, salute us! ;-)
- jxub 9y agoBeats having to wash used ones though.
- zck 9y agoA few years ago, I sent a message to Stripe about a problem with its documentation (they let you switch examples to be in different languages, but at least some Java examples showed up as C++). They not only sent a personal message saying they fixed it, but also offered me a free tshirt. It really sent a message that they cared about documentation.
- bdcravens 9y agoYes, I got the same when I pointed out an issue with their dashboard when they announced Bitcoin support
- whatismybrowser 9y agoI had some sweet stickers printed by stickermule for whatismybrowser.com which I'm always happy to send to anyone who wants some. just drop me a line on the contact page with your mailing address https://www.whatismybrowser.com/about/contact/ https://www.whatismybrowser.com/about/contact/
- swapagarwal 9y agoYou da real MVP!
- NKCSS 9y agoThanks for making me aware of stickermule :) Looks great, think I'll order some for my company :)
- DrPhish 9y agoMore infrastructure than dev, but If you manage to reach the Sage level in Hurricane Electric's free online IPV6 certification program, they send you a T-Shirt: http://blog.he.net/2010/05/28/hurricane-electric-would-like-to-send-you-a-free-t-shirt/ http://blog.he.net/2010/05/28/hurricane-electric-would-like-... Warning: It is a time consuming course! I proudly wear mine, though it's getting a bit ragged now
- aetherspawn 9y agoCool, I wonder if sending people shirts increases PR engagement in my FOSS.
- swapagarwal 9y agoWe've tried; turns out people are really into dev swag!
- Sophistifunk 9y agoAdobe used to do this. They'd send books on (IIRC) any Adobe product to hackers who got patches accepted into Flex.
- swapagarwal 9y agoA cool Sammy sticker pack has been added! :D