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$23/mo is <i>way</i> too steep for something like this. If I'm looking for neat t-shirts to wear, I can get shirts from shirt.woot for $10/each, with free shipping.<p>Call it apples and oranges if you want, but to me, getting a random shirt from a company I've potentially never heard of isn't so enticing at $23/mo.<p>That's more than I pay for my VPS, more than I [used to] pay for netflix, more than I pay for a couple of t-shirts <i>I get to choose</i> from woot.<p>Etc. etc. etc.

Most startups give away their shirts for FREE. If you want a better business model, work out deals with the startups where you promote their company by dispersing their brand to the masses with a surcharge. $10 a month would be an easy price point and mostly profit after shipping costs.

Question: In the FAQs it says you do your own printing. Does this mean we are paying you $23 just to print whatever startup name on a shirt?<p>My first thought was that you were getting these shirts directly from startups and not making them yourself. Also, agree with $23 being too expensive. $10 would be more in line with what people are willing to pay.<p>Props to companies like inDinero for sending out free shwag (LOVE the shirt!:])

It is <a href="http://www.startupschwag.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.startupschwag.com/</a> that did this before right? I believe they did shirts and other stuff in a monthly shipment. Can't remember the price.

Definitely a niche idea. I believe a few others have tried this exact same idea and documented their failure here on HN, though, so interested to see how you're approaching this differently.<p>In Chicago, there are only so many days a year you can comfortably wear a t-shirt out of the house, so unfortunately I'm not your customer. I also don't have $23 a month to throw at simply buying one t-shirt.

Isn't this what Valleyschwag did? They went bust, by the way. Be careful.

$23/month does seem a bit steep, it'd be cool if you could work in a way for those start ups to get a percentage of the $$, that way we can feel like we are all helping the start up movement. I'd be more willing to spend $23/month if I thought it was going to help a start up in some way.

I like the idea. I mean, I REALLY like it. However, I'm with the crowd on this one, $23 is a lil steep for me. There's gotta be a way you can bring this price-point within the range of the work'n stiff.

I'm with everyone else here. No way I'd pay $23 per month for 1 t-shirt of a company I don't know and probably who's services I don't even use.<p>However, I may not be in your demographic at all. I haven't bought a shirt in years. I get shirts with fish on them for my birthday from my kids, and Mariners shirts from my family at Christmas - then I collect free shirts here and there. I have zero fashion sense, I wear what people give me, and I hate shopping :)

I like the idea, and I'd consider using it (if it was available outside of the US) just as a way of supporting startups. It'd be good if you were able to guarantee more than just the t-shirt each month though. Stickers etc are usually pretty cheap, so receiving just a t-shirt for $23 might not make for the best month. Either way, good luck with it.

Honestly I'd pay like $10/month max for this. Startup tshirts to me are promotional things, I don't care to show everyone I have a Digg shirt or Reddit or other startup shirt. If I'm involved in that product or a friend works there, diff story, but then they'd give me a tee for free. Good luck with this.

Interesting, though for just a t-shirt a month, $23 seems a bit steep...

Would be nice if you ironed the shirts before the pictures.

I agree with the other comments regarding $23 being too much for a t-shirt. That being said, even at $10/month I doubt I'd pay for schwag.

How is this legal? You have permission from every startup to sell their logo?

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