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I jumped through a lot of hoops to earn a free t-shirt that says "Everything will be 200 OK". I had to sign up for a couple cloud services and set up some kind

by stewx 4y ago

I jumped through a lot of hoops to earn a free t-shirt that says "Everything will be 200 OK". I had to sign up for a couple cloud services and set up some kind of automation, essentially demo-ing the product to myself to get the shirt. It was smart on their part.

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mooreds 4y ago
My company sponsored a coding livestream recently that featured a dev integrating with our product and I was astonished at how excited folks were to have a chance to win a t-shirt.
- shepherdjerred 4y ago
  the t-shirts are the best part of working in tech
  - mooreds 4y ago
    Haha, hopefully there are other good parts too! But I confess, I'm wearing a "Enjoy Code" t-shirt (like "Enjoy Coke") I picked up at a conference right now. And, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out anyone who wants a free FusionAuth t-shirt can go to https://fusionauth.io/download https://fusionauth.io/download , install it, and share a screenshot and we'll ship you one. Further instructions there. Unfortunately we can only ship to the USA and Canada for this offer.
    - ignoramous 4y ago
      Talking about marketing to devs, in the immortal words of Jess Fraz, "I really like nothing on my host... I am not going to freakin' install that." (: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cYsVvV1aVss&t=1000 https://youtube.com/watch?v=cYsVvV1aVss&t=1000
      - mooreds 4y ago
        Ah, fair point. There's an entire subreddit for folks who think differently, however: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ Takes all kinds.
- ghaff 4y ago
  People get unreasonably excited about swag. I try not to take T-shirts any longer unless there's something unique about them. If it's just some random company's name I'll pass. I've given away huge trash bags of lightly worn or unworn T-shirts and I still have massive piles of them.
  - Aeolun 4y ago
    I enjoy wearing my Twilio t-shirt. It’s still one of the comfiest ones I have. I wouldn’t want the swag if I were not going to use it, so best to give high quality stuff.
Jemaclus 4y ago
This has been one of my favorite shirts for years. I also did the same thing :)
johns 4y ago
As the purveyor of this shirt, it warms my heart to read this comment. We pretty much copied New Relic's model for this, and it worked really well. For awhile it felt like we were more a t-shirt company than a software company.
- lornajane 4y ago
  I have one of those shirts :)

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mooreds 4y ago

My company sponsored a coding livestream recently that featured a dev integrating with our product and I was astonished at how excited folks were to have a chance to win a t-shirt.

shepherdjerred 4y ago
the t-shirts are the best part of working in tech
- mooreds 4y ago
  Haha, hopefully there are other good parts too! But I confess, I'm wearing a "Enjoy Code" t-shirt (like "Enjoy Coke") I picked up at a conference right now. And, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out anyone who wants a free FusionAuth t-shirt can go to https://fusionauth.io/download https://fusionauth.io/download , install it, and share a screenshot and we'll ship you one. Further instructions there. Unfortunately we can only ship to the USA and Canada for this offer.
  - ignoramous 4y ago
    Talking about marketing to devs, in the immortal words of Jess Fraz, "I really like nothing on my host... I am not going to freakin' install that." (: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cYsVvV1aVss&t=1000 https://youtube.com/watch?v=cYsVvV1aVss&t=1000
    - mooreds 4y ago
      Ah, fair point. There's an entire subreddit for folks who think differently, however: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ Takes all kinds.
ghaff 4y ago
People get unreasonably excited about swag. I try not to take T-shirts any longer unless there's something unique about them. If it's just some random company's name I'll pass. I've given away huge trash bags of lightly worn or unworn T-shirts and I still have massive piles of them.
- Aeolun 4y ago
  I enjoy wearing my Twilio t-shirt. It’s still one of the comfiest ones I have. I wouldn’t want the swag if I were not going to use it, so best to give high quality stuff.

Jemaclus 4y ago

This has been one of my favorite shirts for years. I also did the same thing :)

johns 4y ago

As the purveyor of this shirt, it warms my heart to read this comment. We pretty much copied New Relic's model for this, and it worked really well. For awhile it felt like we were more a t-shirt company than a software company.

lornajane 4y ago
I have one of those shirts :)