A list of swag opportunities for developers

https://github.com/swapagarwal/swag-for-dev

by swapagarwal • 8 years ago

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orf• 8 years ago

Make a google home app and you get a t-shirt and $300 gcloud credit

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

Nice! Feel free to open an issue, or send a PR. :smile:

hoschicz• 8 years ago

Source?

trashcan• 8 years ago

Looks like it is $200 and a t-shirt: https://developers.google.com/actions/community/overview#pub...

AznHisoka2• 8 years ago

90% of startups will eagerly give you a free tshirt just for asking. They love the free marketing. No need to do stuff like submit builds, etc.

I have gotten free stuff from:

- IFTTT (socks)

- MixPanel

- CloudFlare

- Elastic

- infochimp

- pingdom

- moz

- rethinkdb

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

That's true. But the value of swag is increased when it's earned! :wink:

xtony• 8 years ago

How do you contact these places?

AznHisoka2• 8 years ago

just search on Twitter “<company name> tshirt” and you will find the right person to contact.

oligopoly• 8 years ago

Do people really want to advertise tech companies by using their merchandise? You couldn't pay me enough to even entertain the thought.

Lemme just pull up that poorly sitting abhorrent short sleeved Microsoft Office business shirt real quick and we are off.

cagmz• 8 years ago

startups

Snarkiness aside, I'd wear Microsoft gear.

UncleEntity• 8 years ago

Meh, the only swag I ever got was one of those 3D hand tracking fancy things whose closed-source license wasn't compatible with blender and didn't work all that well on linux.

Wouldn't mind a pair of socks though...

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

Go for it! :cheers:

hartator• 8 years ago

Really like the Alexa skill thing, make me want dig into it. An Amazon echo for only 100 downloads seems easy to reach.

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

Yep, it's a win-win! :smile:

ukulele• 8 years ago

Serious question: are you typing out colon-smile-colon yourself every time, or does HN convert emojis to text automatically?

andrei_says_2• 8 years ago

Are you figuring in the privacy impact of having a hot microphone in your living space listening in 24/7?

GhostVII2• 8 years ago

You mean like a cell phone?

nukeop• 8 years ago

You can just sell the free hardware on ebay.

akhilcacharya• 8 years ago

I'd like to do it, but I'm not sure if I'm eligible if I'm joining their org in a few months :(

half-kh-hacker• 8 years ago

Hey, I'm wearing my Hacktoberfest t-shirt right now!

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

Good for you. I'm still waiting for mine though. :sad:

jxub3• 8 years ago

It seems HN is turning into slack with this colon emojis, you should stop using them! :wink:

jbryson3• 8 years ago

Love this idea - it’s upsetting to think how much more time I’m willing to put into pull requests when earning “free” stickers

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

Can't help it! #JustDeveloperThings

jcoffland• 8 years ago

I like swag with blinking lights. A buddy and I used to go to the big embedded systems conference in San Jose and compete to see who could score the most development kits. You'd have to chat with the reps a bit to show that you knew how to use their gear before they coughed up anything good. We'd walk out with a thousand dollars of free gear on a good year. How loose the reps were depended a lot on the economy that year. It was a lot of fun.

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

Ah. The Good Ol' Days!

username223• 8 years ago

Cheap t-shirts and socks? I'm less than impressed so far. I'm sure corps are still giving out better swag. You who are almost out of runway, salute us! ;-)

jxub3• 8 years ago

Beats having to wash used ones though.

zck• 8 years ago

A few years ago, I sent a message to Stripe about a problem with its documentation (they let you switch examples to be in different languages, but at least some Java examples showed up as C++). They not only sent a personal message saying they fixed it, but also offered me a free tshirt. It really sent a message that they cared about documentation.

bdcravens• 8 years ago

Yes, I got the same when I pointed out an issue with their dashboard when they announced Bitcoin support

whatismybrowser• 8 years ago

I had some sweet stickers printed by stickermule for whatismybrowser.com which I'm always happy to send to anyone who wants some.

just drop me a line on the contact page with your mailing address

https://www.whatismybrowser.com/about/contact/

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

You da real MVP!

NKCSS• 8 years ago

Thanks for making me aware of stickermule :) Looks great, think I'll order some for my company :)

DrPhish• 8 years ago

More infrastructure than dev, but If you manage to reach the Sage level in Hurricane Electric's free online IPV6 certification program, they send you a T-Shirt: http://blog.he.net/2010/05/28/hurricane-electric-would-like-...

Warning: It is a time consuming course!

I proudly wear mine, though it's getting a bit ragged now

aetherspawn• 8 years ago

Cool, I wonder if sending people shirts increases PR engagement in my FOSS.

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

We've tried; turns out people are really into dev swag!

Sophistifunk• 8 years ago

Adobe used to do this. They'd send books on (IIRC) any Adobe product to hackers who got patches accepted into Flex.

swapagarwal12• 8 years ago

A cool Sammy sticker pack has been added! :D

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