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Official Hacker News T-Shirt
- spydum 14y agoall that's missing is for a DMCA takedown notice to replace this page in a few hours, and a new thread of about three-hundred responses saying that copyright is destroying our freedom, followed by someone downloading the design and making it available via torrents to set it free!
- 127001brewer 14y agoHow is it "official"? Edit: I missed who posted it - thanks for head's up.
- pg 14y agoWe organized this.
- 127001brewer 14y agoI have ordered my t-shirt as well.
- cosmic_shame 14y agolook who posted the announcement...
- thecoffman 14y agopg himself posted the link. I'd say that counts.
- nathanpc 14y agoLook at who posted the link and replied to you.
- theyare 14y agoLook at who posted the link, who replied to you and what said those who replied to you.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- hkmurakami 14y agoAh interesting, all proceeds going to the nonprofit 'Watsi' (YC's first nonprofit [1]) with the thread started by pg. I guess there must have been latent demand for such a shirt for a long time, and now that there's an appropriate recipient of the profits, the tshirts have become a reality :) [1] http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html
- jschuur 14y agoI just wish it wasn't black. I get what you're trying to do with the color scheme from the site, but the black just completely overwhelms it. If you're going to go with something without text, have the shirt be the grayish color, with the orange stripe going across the entire chest.
- jiggy2011 14y agoTo make it look like the actual site you need the orange line to be straight and at the top.
- kafkaesque 14y agoI was just going to comment on that. To my eye, Slate, Asphalt, or Heather Grey would work better (in order of preference). http://www.americanapparel.net/wholesaleresources/ExpressOrder/catalog/product.aspx?s=2001&cid=198&w=0 http://www.americanapparel.net/wholesaleresources/ExpressOrd... Also, these are 100% cotton, right?
- jschuur 14y agoI was struggling to find a name for the primary background color here. It's probably not gray. Creme?
- kafkaesque 14y agoI came to the same conclusion (looks like Creme). But it's probably best to have someone look at the colour in person?
- wiwillia 14y agoYep! These will be printed on 100% cotton tees.
- wiwillia 14y agoWe just added a Slate Grey option to checkout, you can now purchase! Thanks for the feedback.
- jneal 14y agoAnyone else having issues paying? I use my CC online all the time to pay bills and buy off Amazon, and never have any issues, but I receiving an error first that my card was declined, and then after retyping everything "There is a problem with the card you entered." - Contacting my bank now to see if they can give any insight.
- wiwillia 14y agoHey jneal, sorry to hear you're having trouble - want to shoot me an email at walker@teespring.com? We can tell you what error we're getting from the cc processor.
- magoghm 14y agoI'm also having problems. I get a message that says "Your card will not accept a charge at this time". It is the same card I use to buy books at Amazon.
- jug6ernaut 14y agoI don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T? Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.
- mturmon 14y agoIf you have to ask, you aren't ever going to know.
- thetrumanshow 14y agoFor me its solidarity. That, and I just want to be a part of it, regardless of who else knows about it.
- jug6ernaut 14y agoAbsolutely, i do also. But if its a HN Tee, should it be recognizable to those who frequent HN? @mayank same applies, inside joke to who? Those who where told it was a HN Tee or the HN community?(assuming its not recognizable to them).
- thetrumanshow 14y agoI think you and I just might disagree on how recognizable this is, but its beside my point. I get some utility out of the thing, and I get to contribute to something that the community would like to see become successful. I don't normally donate at the drop of a hat, but pg has thus far very carefully tended this community without asking much directly from it. Its a no-brainer. If HN becomes a Kickstarter for non-profits, eh, I become much less interested then. Oh, and if someone happens to ask me what the shirt is about, I probably would say "Ah, its a novelty shirt I bought from this geeky website you probably wouldn't care much about." Because I tend to think the community benefits from being careful who gets involved in it. {sigh} I typed that, and its probably flame-war inducing, but I do feel that way.
- dylanz 14y agoI love the minimal design. Purchased.
- yesimahuman 14y agoI guess the only reason I would know this has anything to do with HN is because this post. Other than that I think it's a little too obscure. The price is right though, so I might go ahead and get one (plus I love HN), but I hope to see more designs in the future!
- 6thSigma 14y agoThere are minimalist shirts, and then there are official Hacker News shirts. Count me in.
- austenallred 14y agoI love the shirt. I was nervous at the concept of a shirt dedicated to Hacker News, but it's very simple, yet will promote solidarity amongst weathers. And I hear black is the new black.
- pg 14y agoIt seemed particularly appropriate for the HN t-shirt to raise money for Watsi, since you guys in a sense discovered Watsi. They'd had some publicity before, but it was after their highly upvoted post on HN that their growth really took off. That was also how we found out about them.
- scoot 14y agoAnd by the same token raises visibility of Teespring, a current YC startup. The question was raised in the HN DDoS thread about what value YC derives from HN, so there are two examples right there - discovery and promotion of investment opportunities.
- antirez 14y agoThat's not bad per-se IMHO, after all still HN even with the "ghost news" appearing and all the rest is a decent place. What is a big issue IMHO is that, given it's starting to be obvious how important is to have a completely neutral HN-style news site for hackers world-wide, nobody tried to do a serious no-profit to create a replacement that is able to guarantee a more democratic and not interested management. So YC does a good job at taking HN not too business-driven, but still HN community does a very poor job at trying to start something completely not-business-related.
- mkrecny 14y agolamer news?
- antirez 14y agoThat was a failed attempt from my side too, because you can't just trow a site there, and don't handle the community, create a super-partes organization, and so forth. My problem is lack of time unfortunately. I'll retry with something in Italian language soon that is smaller and more manageable, and much needed.
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- SkittlesNTwix 14y agoI'd love to donate to Watsi + proudly wear a Hacker News shirt, but this design doesn't really do it for me.
- xauronx 14y agoIt's plain and simple. My first instinct was "ugh, really?" because I don't like the design of the site to begin with. But then I realized... no one would ever ask me a question about the t-shirt, which is a big plus. Only people who frequent HN would recognize it, and where I'm from that's like zero people.
- nollidge 14y agoThe Teespring homepage seems to be designed just for people wishing to sell their apparel, not for people looking to browse around for shirts. Is this in the works?
- parad0x1 14y agoDoes the price include shipping?
- thecoffman 14y agoLooks like they tack on shipping when you check out. It was very reasonable for me though < $4.00
- 6thSigma 14y agoShipping for me was $3.85.
- adnam 14y agoIf I saw someone wearing this t-shirt, I wouldn't know that it was HN-related. But wearing the t-shirt below, I have occasionally bumped into other people "in the know": http://sdf.org/store/shop.cgi?3;sdf10 http://sdf.org/store/shop.cgi?3;sdf10 Plus the design is way cooler.
- blhack 14y agoOh man I remember that! I should get one of those shirts :)
- adventureloop 14y agoI dont really get why people want the shirt to be recognisable. To me it seems that only super brands will get a huge recognition, other brands will be left in an equally puzzling world. Instead I prefer tees that trigger intrigue and sometimes awesome conversation. I have the 20th anniversary SDF tee, in four years of wearing it I have added a score of users to the service. Even once someone saw the DEC terminal and struck(?) up a really cool conversation about the hardware he worked on. As an aside, my favourite conversation starter is the Double Fine Costume Quest Blueprint tee.
- youngerdryas 14y agoWatsi is great but I am not sure if I want to be constantly explaining the shirt to people.
- SebMortelmans 14y agoLove the idea, dislike the 1 color and the design. nothing wrong with minimal but this feels to narrow. Should have put the [Y] somewhere in there imo
- wiwillia 14y agoHi Seb, we just added a Slate Grey option to checkout!
- scoot 14y agoNice "insider" design! Since international shipping is $10.50, putting the cost per shirt at $23.50, but shipping for additional shirts is only $1, if there was enough interest I'd be happy to front a UK HNLondon Meetup group-buy, with all costs shared equally, and shirts to be distributed at the next event following their delivery.
- shrikant 14y agoMany upvotes for this! Maybe you should [get someone to] send out a feeler on the Meetup group? I'd totally jump right in.
- wiwillia 14y agoHi from Teespring! If you guys wanted to collect a few UK orders together we'd be happy to ship them for free on us! We used to use a cheaper international shipping service, but things would get lost too often and we hated seeing people wait weeks for their tees. We recently upgraded to USPS Priority International.
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoThere must be a myriad number of dye-sub printers in the UK that use AA shirts - wouldn't it be cheaper to simply commission them to print and deliver your shirts in UK and Europe with your [customers] branding? Shipping simple tshirts piecemeal seems so terribly wasteful to me.
- wiwillia 14y agoWe looked into this and surprisingly it's cheaper to produce the t-shirts here in the US. Their isn't the same level of competition on blank garment suppliers and screen printers, so the costs are significantly higher. Coupled with the fact you don't capture the bulk discounts it actually ends up a little more expensive! We'll continue to look into it though, perhaps when we reach a certain scale we'll be able to command better prices.
- scoot 14y ago
- wiwillia 14y agoPer request, we just added a Grey option in both men's and women's cuts! The specific color is Slate - you can check it out on American Apparel's website at http://store.americanapparel.net/product/?productId=2001 http://store.americanapparel.net/product/?productId=2001.
- citricsquid 14y agoSkip the colour selector and go direct to Slate: http://i.americanapparel.net/storefront/photos/zoom/serve.asp?media=2001_slate.jpg http://i.americanapparel.net/storefront/photos/zoom/serve.as...
- te_platt 14y agoIs it too much to ask for a long sleeve option?
- pw7 14y agoThey look pretty darn slick to me.
- joelandren 14y agoI love that people can't even refrain from negative comments on a t-shirt. You're not adding to the discussion here but still you need to snipe.
- dmragone 14y agoIs the color not brown? Perhaps I need to calibrate my monitor
- user-id 14y agoIt's pretty much beige.
- cijdl584 14y agoThis is ugly. I was shocked to Ctrl-f "ugly" and come up with nothing, but that's exactly what this shirt is.
- poweribo 14y agoagree. i guess the main concern was to be minimalist than being wearable
- arasmussen 14y agoThat's funny because Ctrl-f "ugly" is the first thing I did after seeing the shirt, which is how I came across your post.
- theyare 14y agoThat's funny because Ctrl-f "Ctrl-f" is the first thing I did after seeing the shirt, which is how I came across your post.
- silverlight 14y agoWe used Teespring recently for a campaign for Roll20 t-shirts, sold around 200, and we've already gotten tweets coming in from people who have gotten their shirt and love it! So if, like us, you'd rather keep focusing on your product/customers rather than filling t-shirt orders, give Teespring a shot.
- chaddeshon 14y agoLots of negativity here, but I love the design. I wouldn't buy a shirt if it said hackernews on it. I would get to many questions for too many people, and I don't really want to explain what I'm wearing. This is perfect. People who know, know. People who don't, won't care.
- mintplant 14y agoI don't seen an overwhelming amount of negativity here at all. Only couple of posts near the top respectfully commenting on the design. The reaction here seems to be positive across the board.
- blhack 14y agoHey, good job on the t-shirt! I like the color, and the design, and I think that proceeds going to watsi is AWESOME! I ordered one and can't wait to get it!
- pdknsk 14y agoWhy is the selection of payment methods so limited? :( They should learn from Humble.
- robert-wallis 14y agoMVP
- kyro 14y agoWill there be a higher-grade customizable offering for us high-karma old timers who haven't seen a top bar in that color for years? I'd hate to associate myself with all these Orange Bars. Buying, nonetheless. Not to wear in public, of course.
- avgarrison 14y agoWhat color do you see? I never realized that the bar changes color.
- jessaustin 14y agoWith sufficient karma (trying to remember: was it 300? 400?), you can set the color you prefer.
- nym 14y agoMine is #bada55.
- itcmcgrath 14y agoIf people want more like that, you can find them at http://hexu.al/ http://hexu.al/
- hfsktr 14y agoThat is awesome. I am so glad I made it this far down the comments to see this link. I know it sounds sarcastic with so much enthusiasm but it isn't. This is the kind of stuff that I like to find. Better when it comes from HN.
- cpeterso 14y agoWhy does HTML think "chucknorris" is a color? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-thi...
- SandB0x 14y agoNow that's a minimum viable product. Great execution and focus. You should double the price though - you would get twice the number of orders.
- fuddle 14y agoThe t-shirt is really boring.
- weej 14y agoWell done. Happy to contribute and pick one up. Cheers!
- fsckin 14y agoCould we get a black bar version? For Aaron. And Steve. And Robert. And so on.
- mehulkar 14y agoI'm sad that this one didn't get quite the same attention. Disclosure, I made it. http://teespring.com/fundraising http://teespring.com/fundraising
- edw519 14y agoProud to buy and wear this. Thank you! But I think I'll customize the back of mine: "My cofounder went to Startup School and all I got was this lousy MVP."
- juskrey 14y agoMine will be "Stay away and work"
- giardini 14y agoAwful design: why design a shirt that won't sell? Aside: why is white so often not available for t-shirts?
- steven2012 14y agoI will buy the black t-shirt, but can I humbly request a white t-shirt option too?
- hyh1048576 14y agoThe shipping $3.85 is expensive as hell. Why don't you do $16.85 free shipping, and give volume buyer some discount?
- jiggy2011 14y agoCan I get one with "Unknown or expired link" on the back?
- pg 14y agoWe considered that, but it seemed too heavy handed.
- jcfrei 14y agook, really like the idea, but I can't get comfy with the design. I would've really preferred a version with a big (orange) Y on it - or something a little less cryptic.
- eumenides1 14y agoTo everyone who doesn't like the shirt design, but agrees with the idea: Just donate 13 dollars to Watsi.
- jkaljundi 14y agoIs the price the same shipped anywhere in the world? Its starts asking for your credit card details before shipping information.
- xauronx 14y agoTo the right it shows shipping cost, with a question mark next to it that explains the fee. <not affiliated, just on that page right now>
- pisarzp 14y agoI think it's really misleading. I didn't notice this question mark, and found out about total price with shipment to UK only after I purchased it. There was no second step with confirmation or anything... Shipping costs should just change on the page based on which country you select.
- xauronx 14y agoOh, that blows. I guess I assumed it somehow knew I was in the US but would ask/figure out if you were elsewhere. You should probably throw them a message. I know someone who works there WAS creeping on this thread.
- baby 14y agoIn the middle? Seems a bit tacky. Especially with the black color. I'd see something like this would be better : http://i.imgur.com/vURo089.png http://i.imgur.com/vURo089.png EDIT: I'm not fan of the design at all. Here's an idea (I suck at photoshop): http://i.imgur.com/EqhulyO.png http://i.imgur.com/EqhulyO.png
- robert-wallis 14y agoAny reason the logo is on the right instead of standard left? https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1435&bih=762&tbm=isch&q=company+tee+shirt+logo https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1435&bih=762...
- baby 14y agoI supposed I pictured myself in a mirror when I did that.
- justplay 14y agopg you are very kind .
- brador 14y agoI knew these reminded me of something!: http://www.google.com/search?q=london+train+ticket&tbm=isch http://www.google.com/search?q=london+train+ticket&tbm=i...
- webbruce 14y agohttp://teespring.com/rubypowered http://teespring.com/rubypowered
- meunier 14y ago"Larger" view is smaller.
- nblavoie 14y agoWhy is the Hacker News not even written on the shirt? In my view, the favicon would have been a better design idea than this one. I don't get it.
- Yhippa 14y agoHN has crept into one of my most frequently visited sites over the past years. I've spent way too much time on this site over the past several years. This shirt's an autobuy for me.
- intended 14y agoNow if only there was a way to set up an NGO which could be run on auto pilot. Then it would be possible to do this for Dwarf Fortress without getting bothered by the hassle!
- smosher 14y agoI won't wear this kind of branding, but if it was a HN-grey shirt with HN-orange collar/cuffs/trim, that I would wear.
- adamman 14y agoThey should increase the height of the orange header and add the Y logo to the left as it is on the site.
- therandomguy 14y agoI like this. I was ready to jump in here an complain about attracting attention from outside the hacker community. But this is perfect.
- andymoe 14y agoNice, I got two. Might be cool to write you HN username on it in sharpie.
- theoutlander 14y agoIt would be cool if my alias was printed on it.... and maybe my karma and my #1 post/comment (which would force me to purchase a new one every time I hit a new milestone, haha!))
- kfury 14y agoIt's like a burqa for your nipples.
- adnam 14y agoThis is the best comment on this whole page
- tehzergrush 14y agoAwful design. So many other ways to do minimalist without doing downright ugly.
- magoghm 14y agoTried to buy one, but I just get a message that says "Your card will not accept a charge at this time".
- prawks 14y agoDoes anyone know which American Apparel shirt these use? Specifically, the fabric? 100% cotton, or 50/50 poly/cotton blend?
- msteinert 14y agoIt appears to be 100% cotton [1] (linked from the "Launch a Campaign page [2]). [1]: http://amzn.to/WlmcDR http://amzn.to/WlmcDR [2]: http://teespring.com/design http://teespring.com/design
- mrcoles 14y agoTeespring looks interesting. Has anyone here used it before? Does it print well? I've been using printfection for a personal shop that does all the fulfillment (http://shop.mrcoles.com/ http://shop.mrcoles.com/), but the campaign approach looks pretty cool
- gourneau 14y agoI am looking for a PyCon pass. If you are a hacker news reader and have an extra pass. I would buy ~20 of these for you, maybe for you to give away at PyCon.
- soneca 14y agoGreat idea! I would never use a t-shirt that "brand" me as HackerNews. Not even one that a "fellow HN user" would recognize - going further, I even think that wearing a t-shirt with my own startup logo is kinda silly. Like it was designed though, as an "ode to the defining style of HN" (not an ad for HN, which is very different), it fulfills the goal of relate to HN for the buyer and promote the fundraising campaign. And I would still use a cool t-shirt, not a branded one. A jackpot, as I see it. I will check if they deliver to Brazil.
- shocks 14y agoFantastic. I just ordered mine. I shall wear it proudly and see if anyone recognises it. Hehe. Thanks pg! :)
- kylelibra 14y agoI am disappointed by the price. Why $13 and not $13.37?
- nvarsj 14y agoThis is really cool. I don't usually like to wear printed shirts of any kind, but this is nice and minimalist. Also I can never have enough black tees. And the watsi donation is icing on the cake. Thanks for doing this!
- DanielBMarkham 14y agoIf the top comment is going to be nitpicking and point-missing, then I want to make a point about how the site has gone to hell in a hand basket, dammit. Obligatory pointless side note: going to hell in a hand basket is much worse than simply going to hell. Perhaps it is because hand baskets are flammable?
- Mz 14y agoIt's actually because first they chop you into little pieces to fit you into the handbasket. You go to hell as a collection of parts, like legless C3PO, thus helpless to do anything about it.
- DanielBMarkham 14y agopg selling t-shirts on HN, gambling at Rick's, cats and dogs lying together. The barbarians are at the gates, I say!
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- rbn 14y agoIt wont accept my card. It keeps saying there is a problem
- jneal 14y agoHaving same issue. My bank says they are not declining but the website keeps saying declined...
- orangethirty 14y agoOk, let's break it down a bit. What is it? A t-shirt. Why? To help charity through Watsi. Why that design? Because this is a shirt about hacker news and not ycombinator itself. Even though they are hosted in the same place, they are two different things and brands. Also, notice that the only common design clue in hacker news is the orange top bar with the gray background. Hacker news lacks a logo. The nex best thing to use would be the only other thing that visually differences it: the ugly design. Why not the ycombinator logo? Because the shirt is about hacker news. Not ycombinator itself.
- fredley 14y agoSmall thing: I bought a slate T, and the confirmation page featured a large image of a black T, I had to go and double check the right one had been ordered.
- wiwillia 14y agoWe're working on that! The MVP for Teespring was originally built to support only 1 product, we've since realized that almost everyone wants to sell their tees on a few different styles/colors and have been revising the system to support the new functionality.
- amerf1 14y agoHere's an unofficial shirt of the famous YC saying "make something people want" http://teespring.com/makesomething http://teespring.com/makesomething
- epsylon 14y agoI would've loved a fully orange design with a plain white Y in the middle.
- Katelyn 14y agoOrder Placed! I'd be curious to know the the male/female tee style breakdown of the sales. Could the nice folks at teespring provide us with these stats?
- christofd 14y agonice and subtle :)
- peterjs 14y agoI was going to read through the comments in my usual routine of gathering insights the original link missed. Then it struck me. I liked that t-shirt. It simply looked good. What comment was I expecting? Some kind of logical reasoning about what's wrong with that t-shirt? Or a proof that the t-shirt is just fine? As wise barber once said, "We think too much and feel too little."
- omilu 14y agoanyone have experience with american apparel tshirts? are they big, or smallish. Can't decide if I need double x or x.
- omilu 14y agofrom what i read elsewhere, they run a little small, 2X it is!
- user-id 14y agoI don't mind the minimalism, it just looks weird sitting in the middle of a tee like that. Something a little more practical would have been cool, like a white tee with a beige pocket and orange trim on top of the pocket. Heck, even if it was just a printed faux practical pocket, it would actually be quite apt really.
- tariqr 14y agoBeautiful. Abstraction has a much longer shelf life :)
- tehwalrus 14y agoI'm a sucker for cryptic T-shirts, sold!
- INTPenis 14y agoNo deal, I clicked the link excited wanting to finally show off my love of HN to my co-workers and was faced with a strange orange bar with a gray bottom. What? What are you trying to say with this? Watsi suffers for your decision. I would have bought two of them if it had actually said HN or Hacker News or anything more identifying than a bar with two colors.
- markkat 14y agoNice design. Kudos to whoever came up with it. Forget the naysayers. People have been spoonfeed by corporate advertisers so long, they think anything that doesn't function as an effective corporate logo is flawed.