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i built teebot.dev because every time i wanted to put text on a shirt, i got lost in some enshitified print companies design flow. i just wanted to get words on

i built teebot.dev because every time i wanted to put text on a shirt, i got lost in some enshitified print companies design flow. i just wanted to get words on a shirt. So i made teebot.dev. type your text and ship it. that's it. here's the CLI: npx teebot "wtf?"

lifefeed 6mo ago
what material are the shirts made of?
- foxpress 6mo ago
  Good question, I need to surface this on the site. Currently it's a Bella+Canvas 3001 (ring-spun cotton, midweight). Adding product specs to the preview page.
  - codeofficer 6mo ago
    I’ll never buy cotton shirts on principle. Tri-blend only for me. I have far too many conference shirts that have shrunk.
    - quesera 6mo ago
      Curious. I always prefer 100% cotton, and nothing ever shrinks noticeably. I thought shrinking clothes were a historical oddity from my childhood, honestly. A couple things that might make the difference: - Conference swag shirts might be a lower quality/more shrinkable weave? I don't buy anything special. - I wash on medium or cold temp, never hot (except full loads of towels), and dry on medium. Everything always comes clean.
      - c0balt 6mo ago
        Ime, some shrinkage is inevitably if you wash with reasonably hot temperatures. Reasonable ~ following the washing instructions. Most mid to high end tshirts are pre-shrunk however which helps a lot, low end shirts (maybe some conference swag?) can skip this step for cost reasons.
fragmede 6mo ago
too easily confused with the terminal command tee
- hallway_monitor 6mo ago
  Literally just say T-shirt. Nobody calls this a tee. Except if you are in a clothing store I guess
- Imustaskforhelp 6mo ago
  +1, I was a bit confused as I was wondering about tee command too. OP, Just say T-shirt please ,instead of terminal to tee, say terminal to t-shirt in 6 seconds!
  - foxpress 6mo ago
    ok, will do. t-shirt going forward. I thought the tee command connection was cute but clearly I missed the mark on that one
    - deleted 6mo ago
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    - Imustaskforhelp 6mo ago
      Great. aside from that, I read the comments and I see that you are having no extra charge-up and this just feels like a passion project! and I am grateful for that, Its actually really great and actually cheap. Is there anything similar to this but for clocks for example? Niche, I know but I would love to have customized clocks perhaps via the same mechanism Another suggestion I would love to have is if there could be a way that I can "gift" someone a t-shirt/credits ykwim So I am thinking that if I ever do anything business related, I would love to give customers some good t-shirts with some text related to a business as a thank you for-example if they are using my service or as a giveaway, But with your product I realize that I can also give them both the above option but also the fact that they can also customize it if they might not like it, I find that option of freedom for the end user somewhat even more respecting, and I can maybe give them many options to choose any one shirt to begin with, the possibilities are endless! Great project actually. You should do a Show HN!

lifefeed 6mo ago

what material are the shirts made of?

foxpress 6mo ago
Good question, I need to surface this on the site. Currently it's a Bella+Canvas 3001 (ring-spun cotton, midweight). Adding product specs to the preview page.
- codeofficer 6mo ago
  I’ll never buy cotton shirts on principle. Tri-blend only for me. I have far too many conference shirts that have shrunk.
  - quesera 6mo ago
    Curious. I always prefer 100% cotton, and nothing ever shrinks noticeably. I thought shrinking clothes were a historical oddity from my childhood, honestly. A couple things that might make the difference: - Conference swag shirts might be a lower quality/more shrinkable weave? I don't buy anything special. - I wash on medium or cold temp, never hot (except full loads of towels), and dry on medium. Everything always comes clean.
    - c0balt 6mo ago
      Ime, some shrinkage is inevitably if you wash with reasonably hot temperatures. Reasonable ~ following the washing instructions. Most mid to high end tshirts are pre-shrunk however which helps a lot, low end shirts (maybe some conference swag?) can skip this step for cost reasons.

fragmede 6mo ago

too easily confused with the terminal command tee

hallway_monitor 6mo ago
Literally just say T-shirt. Nobody calls this a tee. Except if you are in a clothing store I guess
Imustaskforhelp 6mo ago
+1, I was a bit confused as I was wondering about tee command too. OP, Just say T-shirt please ,instead of terminal to tee, say terminal to t-shirt in 6 seconds!
- foxpress 6mo ago
  ok, will do. t-shirt going forward. I thought the tee command connection was cute but clearly I missed the mark on that one
  - deleted 6mo ago
    [deleted]
  - Imustaskforhelp 6mo ago
    Great. aside from that, I read the comments and I see that you are having no extra charge-up and this just feels like a passion project! and I am grateful for that, Its actually really great and actually cheap. Is there anything similar to this but for clocks for example? Niche, I know but I would love to have customized clocks perhaps via the same mechanism Another suggestion I would love to have is if there could be a way that I can "gift" someone a t-shirt/credits ykwim So I am thinking that if I ever do anything business related, I would love to give customers some good t-shirts with some text related to a business as a thank you for-example if they are using my service or as a giveaway, But with your product I realize that I can also give them both the above option but also the fact that they can also customize it if they might not like it, I find that option of freedom for the end user somewhat even more respecting, and I can maybe give them many options to choose any one shirt to begin with, the possibilities are endless! Great project actually. You should do a Show HN!