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ASK HN: Would you sign up for this service?

14 点作者 gghootch大约 13 年前

16 条评论

joshstrange大约 13 年前
No for 2 reasons,<p>1) As @lmm mentioned, you can get free t-shirts from just about anywhere and it's not worth having a huge ad on your back 2) Launchrock is one of the most annoying 'Coming Soon' pages out there. Why would I share your service/product on Twitter/FB/Email to my friends and family when I haven't even ever used it
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127001brewer大约 13 年前
No, because I simply do not see the value of receiving a free t-shirt with advertising.<p>Also, it seems like a relatively significant commitment from a person who signed up because you're asking them to upload three pictures of themselves in the t-shirt (for either another free t-shirt or "credit").<p>However, I'm interested to hear more about your business model and I hope your idea does well.<p>Presumably,and I may be way off here, you're sub-contracting out the screen-printing of the t-shirts. And, as I understand it, the cost of producing t-shirts can be significant and you would probably have to hold a large inventory of t-shirts in various sizes.<p>- What kind of advertiser are you trying to appeal to?<p>- Does an advertiser pay only when there's evidence that the t-shirts are worn? Or why do you have to upload three pictures of yourself in the t-shirt?<p>- Roughly, what kind of margins are you expecting to get?<p>- Are you trying to focus in a local region or nationally?<p>- What happens with any left over inventory?<p>Lastly, I may be interested in a t-shirt that combines an advertising with "pop art", but that's just a quick idea...<p><i>Edit: Clarified the first sentence.</i>
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citricsquid大约 13 年前
Yes, I <i>love</i> t-shirts (I own over 160) and I know that a lot of people really love free stuff. As others have said there are issues like what if someone misrepresents a brand, but ignoring that I think the idea is fantastic.<p>If you market it well (I would suggest aiming at end of high school / start of college age people) it could really take off. I don't think posting it here will get you much useful feedback, the HN demographic aren't really the sort of people this will appeal to.
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jazzylady大约 13 年前
I think it's great idea. I would at least try it. I'm not really a T-shirt person but I know many who wear them and I think some would be interested in something like this.<p>I like your landing page as potential wearing customer, but I don't think it would attract me to advertise with you. I would only change the pictures representing what kind of pictures people upload. Here you can't see that person wears T-shirt on an event or in a day in their life, you only see T-shirt and don't get the feeling person is wering it outside of their bedroom.<p>I think that feature of choosing what brand will you promote with this T-shirt is important. You can see that many commenters saw this as a problem. But I think that here is a problem from the side of companies who would advertise on your T-shirts as well. If I used your service for promotional purposes, I would like to know that in front side of T-shirt there would not be something opposite of what I would like my brand to be. But I think that for starters you can filter that out manually.
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lmm大约 13 年前
No. A t-shirt I don't particularly like is worth approximately zero to me (you get them free at conventions), and it doesn't sound like the front will be cool enough to justify the back. Particularly since the back's probably going to be McDonalds or something.
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heelhook大约 13 年前
I would, and once I get my shirt I would wear it or not, depending on what's in the back, my advise to you would be to allow people ordering the shirts to pick what company or design they'll have in the back, I might have a problem wearing merchandise of companies that don't sit well with my lifestyle (e.g. as a vegetarian, I wouldn't wear the shirt of a company that primarily sells meat, like McDonald's).<p>Offering the people that are wearing the shirts a mix of back designs (say, three different ad designs to pick from for Whole Foods or any other advertiser) would be a plus to improve adoption.
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pavel_lishin大约 13 年前
I assume there's more fine print to this.<p>What if the advertisers don't like the context in which I wear their t-shirts? If I upload three photos of myself wearing my t-shirt at a KKK rally, or being beaten by police officers at a protest, or throwing a puppy off of a bridge, will I continue to receive free t-shirts? Or would advertisers be able to black list certain frappers?<p>For the record, I signed up, and will probably be donating most of the ones I receive (if any, I do get beaten up a lot at KKK rallies for throwing puppies of bridges) to the homeless.
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dshlos大约 13 年前
I think it's a good idea. Not everyone will wear any type of t-shirt, so maybe you should find a way to match people to brands. For example, I'd wear a t-shirt advertising technology companies whose products I use, but I wouldn't wear a Ford t-shirt because I am a Toyota/Honda guy.<p>Someone launched a similar site years ago where they would give you giant stickers to put on your car doors and pay you $200 per month as long as you drive 20+ miles per day.
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dholowiski大约 13 年前
I would sign up for this service, on both ends... to get a t-shirt and to advertise on t-shirts (provided I could get in on a very small scale - a few t-shirts).<p>As others have said, whether I would wear the shirt depends on the ad. It would be great if I could see the ad before the shirt was sent.<p>Also, the word 'order' almost turned me off. it immediately suggests I'd have to pay.
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huhtenberg大约 13 年前
No. It looks like a pyramid scheme of some kind, so I didn't even bother finishing reading the page. Sorry.
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kschua大约 13 年前
It depends on the advert.<p>If it was a cool brand which I would like to associate with, then yes, I would wear and photograph myself in it.<p>If it was a brand which I don't intend to associate myself with, then no, I wouldn't wear it much less have a photo of me in it
phamilton大约 13 年前
I only see this being useful in a college campus setting. My freshman year I used to have "Free T-Shirt weeks", where I would wear all the swag shirts I've received because all the shirts I actually liked were dirty and I didn't want to do laundry yet.
vog大约 13 年前
The site currently shows an error message:<p><i>&#62; It appears that something may be broken. We apologize for the problem. If you think you have reached this page in error, please head over to our support page.</i><p>Well, that's not appealing.
angry-hacker大约 13 年前
I wouldn't but I know a lot of people who would. If your startup is able to be profitable like that I believe it's an excellent idea...
jstanley大约 13 年前
If we assume that the shirts look good, sure. I always like free stuff.
hafabnew大约 13 年前
Yes, but just so I had tonnes of gym/exercise t-shirts.