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Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet
- hazelcough 12y agoHave a coupon code: THERESACODEONMYSHIRT :)
- hazelcough 12y agoAnd an action shot: http://instagram.com/p/tLrz7fDoaT http://instagram.com/p/tLrz7fDoaT
- exiva 12y agogoto fail; goto fail; ...or are we past that joke now?
- dlgeek 12y agoBeen there, done that, got the t-shirt. (In fact, I wore it today - someone else printed them right after the disclosure).
- rpicard 12y agoWill the shirt have the code itself or just the silhouette of the code?
- slingerofwheat 12y agoI agree. This is such a misleading website. I don't even know what I'll get.
- hazelcough 12y agoAfter you click "Continue with this design," you'll see a proof on the left. You're getting the code as blocks--the hover text is just to show you how the code is being highlighted.
- ConnorBoyd 12y agoWell that's kind of boring
- Mandatum 12y agoYeah I thought I was getting readable print. Instead I get some coloured lines on a shirt. No thanks.
- hazelcough 12y agoSorry :(.
- Throwaway12830 12y agoAfter seeing the proof, I was still confused what I would receive, and thought maybe the blocks were placeholders for the text that would appear in the final print. You should definitely make this more clear, because the phrasing on the site gives the impression you'll get the actual code. Without a doubt you'll get lots of requests for refunds if this isn't adjusted.
- hazelcough 12y agoYep--thanks for the tip. I've added a bunch of warnings all around, and reached out to folks who ordered with a clarification :).
- dshanahan 12y agoIt was clear to me what I'd get. Awesome project.
- ytNumbers 12y agoIt's got to be the safest form of birth control.
- benradler 12y agoabsolutely horrible. cant even tell if this thing will put code or colored blocks on my shirt, and you want $25?
- brandonhsiao 12y agoWhy couldn't you have just written "Will my shirt have code or colored blocks?"
- slexaxton 12y agono ur absolutely horrible
- OutThisLife 12y agoI guess HN's 22 points in 1 hour killed in?
- elwell 12y agoIs it that hard to push your app to elastic beanstalk?
- MaxGabriel 12y agoThey should say that American Apparel is the manufacturer of the shirt (I only found out by clicking their google image search link from the checkout page). They're known for running a size small + (imo) they have a good reputation for quality t-shirts, so it might help with sales.
- hazelcough 12y agoThanks for the tip! The unisex shirt is American Apparel, and the women's is Bella Ladies' Favorite, or American Apparel depending on the color.
- bwy 12y agoAwesome, always wanted a minimalistic striped shirt! shirt.codes/?source=------------------------------------------ -------------------------------%0A---------------------------- ---------------------------------------------%0A-------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- %0A----------------------------------------------------------- --------------%0A--------------------------------------------- ----------------------------%0A------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ &style=Para%C3%ADso%20-%20Light :)
- javert 12y agoI don't understand why there are these colored blocks instead of an actual code snippet. Also, I was assuming there would be a variety of different code samples. Just CSS? Really? Dude, that's not even a programming language.
- hazelcough 12y agoYou can type in any code you want...it'll autodetect the language.
- patcon 12y agoHaha no way. I had an idea for a tshirt gem where you could pipe in text and it would order a shirt through the zazzle api. You guys should write one! ``` $ echo "curl -s http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=4Tz0Z8in http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=4Tz0Z8in | sh " | tshirt $ cat myscript.rb | tshirt ```
- Rangi42 12y agoThere used to be a shirt with Tantek Çelik's box model hack (voice-family: "\"}\"";) for sale somewhere online. (I screen-printed my own copy on an old T-shirt.) This was back when IE5.5 was still in use. I wonder if this site was inspired by that shirt.
- selmnoo 12y agoThe shirt seems to be a color shirt, no? It's pretty impressive to do a single custom shirt for $25 (or maybe it isn't? I don't know about the economics of t-shirt printing). I would love to know more about this, if someone has more to say (or link to a resource).
- hazelcough 12y agoYep! I used scalablepress.com to print my shirts. It's extremely to print a single custom shirt from them--I was surprised, too :).
- selmnoo 12y agoCool, thanks for answering. I hope you won't mind if I pick your brain&ways a little more. So, some questions: 1) Are you doing this white-label? 2) Is this a "passive income" side-project, or something you've put a lot of time to? (Well, it's clear that you've put a lot of time to it... it's a beautiful finished product in every way, but I'm still curious to know how much effort has been put into this) 3) Are you working closely with scalablepress folks, or do you find their api to be powerful enough that you need not get in touch with them? 4) I see that just the blocks are being printed, not the code. There is probably a lot of demand for the printed-code shirts - why not go for that? (is it markedly more expensive to print text on shirts?)
- hazelcough 12y ago1) There's no branding on the shirt at all. The shirt is shipped from Scalable Press, so I'm not sure what the packaging will say, but I imagine they have something in place for white-labelling. 2) "Passive income" side project, though with all the HN hate it's turning into a bit more scrambling than I'd imagined :). 3) I do ask them questions since I'm a pretty early user of the API, but it's pretty well-documented at this point so I don't imagine you'd run into much trouble developing on it.
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- deevus 12y agoWhat sort of code would people want on their shirts?
- hazelcough 12y agoCode that looks cool as blocks :P.
- bootload 12y agomain(k){float i,j,r,x,y=-16;while(puts(""),y++<15)for(x =0;x++<84;putchar(" .:-;!/>)|&IH%*#"[k&15]))for(i=k=r=0; j=r*r-i*i-2+x/25,i=2*r*i+y/10,j*j+i*i<11&&k++<111;r=j);} compiled it looks like this ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/perlin https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/perlin from Ken Perlin blog ~ http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/ http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/
- Mark_B 12y agoHmmm...A "brillant" shirt, anyone? shirt.codes/? source=package%20test%3B%0Apublic%20class%20paulaBean%20%7B%0A %20%20private%20String%20paula%20%3D%20%22Brillant%22%3B%0A%20 %20public%20String%20getPaula()%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20return%20p aula%3B%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D&style=Default
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- primitivesuave 12y agoThis would be awesome for inside jokes with equally-nerdy friends, can't wait for the opportunity to try it out!
- ZoF 12y agoHey, this is super cool! Genuinely think you would generate much more interest(and less confusion/knee-jerk anger) if you had the option of having the code printed on the shirt overlaying the blocks. I'd definitely be interested.
- hazelcough 12y agoYep, this is now implemented! Thanks for the input.
- selmnoo 12y agoThis was crazy fast, that you were able to implement this so quickly after getting feedback from HN (and replying to our questions and queries at the same time). Kudos is all I have to say. I wish I had those skills!
- joeevans1000 12y agoNo XL? Is this like Abercrombie and Fitch where they only want the hotties in their shirts?
- hazelcough 12y agoThere is XL if you select "Unisex." The default sizes are women's sizes. http://cl.ly/image/3w1z0v170c2j http://cl.ly/image/3w1z0v170c2j (Just fixed it so that it shows Unisex sizes by default.)
- cookrn 12y agoI love the abstract and colorful look. It actually is really nice without being based on code! Some more code samples for people to click through could be fun to play around with too. Have you printed one for yourself yet? A photo of you wearing a shirt would be wonderful. dojo4 [1] (Boulder, CO) built and subsequently took down a similar product called Speakteesy [2] last year. It's really hard to get the pricing reasonable, show people definitively what they're going to receive, and get a quality shirt. We did our best by generating a to-scale proof image using ImageMagick that a user would see prior to paying, but it wasn't a huge help. Lastly, the shirts.io [3] service was our fulfillment backend and, barring some light documentation in areas, was great to work with. Good luck! [1] http://dojo4.com/ http://dojo4.com/ [2] http://speakteesy.com/ http://speakteesy.com/ [3] https://www.shirts.io/ https://www.shirts.io/
- hazelcough 12y agoYep, here's me wearing a shirt: http://cl.ly/image/220r1g463W00 http://cl.ly/image/220r1g463W00 re: shirts.io, yeah I'm using their successor, scalablepress.com. The API is much better now.
- cookrn 12y agoSweet! The pattern of the code reminds me of morse code too :D
- JadoJodo 12y agoNo shirts for fat guys. Shame.