[foxpress]

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]

what material are the shirts made of?

[foxpress]

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]

I’ll never buy cotton shirts on principle. Tri-blend only for me. I have far too many conference shirts that have shrunk.

[quesera]

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]

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]

too easily confused with the terminal command tee

[Imustaskforhelp]

+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]

ok, will do. t-shirt going forward. I thought the tee command connection was cute but clearly I missed the mark on that one

[Imustaskforhelp]

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!

[foxpress]

Aw, thanks Imustaskforhelp! It really is a passion project. And I am a very passionate person ;p

Clocks?! Why Not! :) I like the gift idea, going to lean into that.

The possibilities really are endless, the framework could be repurposed for any/many products.

shoot me your email at [e-mail], I wanna give you a free shirt ;)

[Imustaskforhelp]

Saw your message, I appreciate that you liked my message and I have sent you an email now!

> It really is a passion project. And I am a very passionate person ;p

Great to hear that, The world needs more people who build things because of passion so kudos!

[hallway_monitor]

Literally just say T-shirt. Nobody calls this a tee. Except if you are in a clothing store I guess

[ralferoo]

Especially as the picture literally has a command prompt saying "$ tee <command>"

[foxpress]

Yep, hearing this loud and clear. Updating the copy to say t-shirt.