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foxpress

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developer of teebot.dev - the fastest way to get text a shirt.

$ npx teebot "your text here"

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foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
Which font and characters are you looking for, I can add them.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
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 feedback@teebot.dev, I wanna give you a free shirt ;)

foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
Damn, ok. Good feedback. I heard that from someone else, too. Our attention spans are fried, lol. Can't wait 20 seconds for a shirt preview! It's true though. So the first "preview" is just rendering text on top of a blank shirt mockup, and the the second one (after you click and go to /preview) actually sends the text to the Printful API to get a render of how the shirt will actually appear. That's the delay, waiting for the final image to come back from Printful.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
Ok I just added support for 204 additional countries and currencies. Can you try it now and let me know if you're one of them :)
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
Yes! You can thank my mom for that :) She wanted a shirt with some extra unicode characters yesterday so I added support for that.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
I've added a few requested countries and am adding a bunch more right now. Give me a few minutes and I should have most places that Printful ships to (sorry Russian, UAE and Pakistan)
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
it's often faster than that, that's just the longest it ever takes so I set the countdown timer to 20 seconds. if you can think of a better way to present that I'd love to hear it.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
that's the Printful API. Once a phrase has been generated it's cached so it's instant next time. Do you have any suggestions on how to make it faster?
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
Yep, hearing this loud and clear. Updating the copy to say t-shirt.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
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.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
The pricing includes printing, shipping, and handling. There's no markup on top of Printful's base cost. If you're comparing against going to Printful directly yourself, the price should be the same. If you're seeing a difference, mind sharing what product/shipping you were comparing? Could be a regional shipping rate thing.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
Printful. It has its issues for sure but the API is solid and fulfillment has been reliable so far. What are you running into with them?
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
Yeah I've been hearing that a lot today. Lesson learned, updating the copy to say t-shirt.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
Ha, fair point. A few people have mentioned the confusion. Going with "t-shirt" going forward.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
If we can't ship to your country yet the button is disabled so you don't go through the whole flow and hit a dead end. Working on expanding shipping though. Where are you located? Would help me prioritize.
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
ok, will do. t-shirt going forward. I thought the tee command connection was cute but clearly I missed the mark on that one
foxpress··on $ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds
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?"