Show HN: SnapPrint – Design your t-shirt in less than a minute

by gerry_shaw • 10 years ago

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gerry_shaw7• 10 years ago

I was frustrated that I work on a T-shirt printing platform but had no way to easily design shirts for myself so after pitching the idea and a couple of months of work we managed to ship this fun app.

It procedurally generates SVG based on parameters defined by themes and was inspired by the many typography tools used to generate Instagram posts.

Would love to hear the communities thoughts on this.

Thanks for taking a look.

fizzbatter3• 10 years ago

Heads up, i was unable to purchase a shirt, seems /checkout is giving a 500 response:

    POST https://snapprint.com/checkout 500 (Internal Server Error)

Note that i also saw no UX changes. No error message on the page, etc.

Hope you get this sorted soon, can't wait to order my shirt :)

gerry_shaw7• 10 years ago

Thanks for the patience. We've been printing shirts for a year but this is the first day this app has seen production so a few little hiccups. Glad to see it's all sorted.

R3dat• 10 years ago

Good job, really liked the text effects. I think the printing will be via DTg? and what's the brand for blank t-shirts?

gerry_shaw7• 10 years ago

Correct, printing is done via DTG mostly through our own print factory (CanvusPrint.com).

Cheaper shirts print on Gilden, the premium shirts on Next Level or Bella Canvas.

Thanks for trying it out.

fizzbatter3• 10 years ago

Appreciate having the premium option. I'm buying a shirt now just for kicks, mainly to test out the quality of the shirt.

If i like the fit/etc, i imagine i'll buy a few more. Thanks! Sidenote: If you can manage this awesome UX for more complex stuff (images? designs? art? w/e), would be really cool.

shafyy• 10 years ago

Really cool. Think about adding common umlauts like ü, ö etc. so more people can use it :-)

gerry_shaw7• 10 years ago

I know! The special characters are limited by the fonts we selected. Amazing how many fonts only support a-z.

Thanks for the suggestion.

freedompop123• 10 years ago

I tried a bit of experimenting. Do any of the fonts on the website have support outside alphanumeric?

BoomWav• 10 years ago

Can you do baby stuff? I really want to print some crazy stupid clothes for my kids.

gerry_shaw7• 10 years ago

I know we are trying source baby clothes and your post will help me make the argument stronger. Check back later and we'll have more styles on offer.

Show HN: SnapPrint – Design your t-shirt in less than a minute

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