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The initial thought behind it was we didn't want to disappoint organizers (campaign creators) by implying we had a market that was going to buy their design. We also didn't have that many cool campaigns up and running at any one time, and didn't know if that would impact user's perception of us.

As we've grown that has definitely changed, and we're in the midst of a redesign that adds a discovery portion to our website!

Here's an early WIP mockup showing the new discover functionality: http://i.imgur.com/2Khj2A6.jpg

Hi Rex! As some other comments have pointed out, we don't actually have any significant discovery featured right now - so a large % of hitting your goal is your community!

That's something we hope to change in the near future though.

Always happy to talk strategy with you if you're interested, my email is walker@teespring.com.

We don't offer those publicly yet, but we can set that up for you on the backend - shoot me an email at walker@teespring.com

That would be the case with us - we have raised a seed round but it was from a local angel (Bill Cesare) who joined the team full-time and is now our COO.

We grew a little bit in January but didn't maintain the 40% growth we had in Dec. We were warned that January is a tough month for retail, so hopefully that's the case. I'll do a follow up post in a few months if people are interested.

Thanks and good luck with OpenRent!

For sure - companies like Spreadshirt and CafePress use digital printing as opposed to screen printing in order to avoid the heavy upfront costs of screen printing.

As soon as you print over 10 t-shirts screen printing becomes both lower cost (a t-shirt that starts at $15 on Spreadshirt can be $6 on Teespring) and higher quality (digital printing produces less vibrant colors and washes out much quicker).

Short version: Teespring allows you to produce higher quality products at a lower price point. We also add the benefit of game mechanics and make the experience more social.

Sorry about that I should have clarified - by profit I meant money after we'd paid all our costs on the order (production, shipping, etc.) but not after we'd paid for ourselves or our office space.

Thanks! We actually offer free design help, shoot me an email at walker@teespring.com and I'll get you set up.

I agree re: inventing rewards just for Kickstarter. Kickstarter should automate the production & fulfillment of those basic items (tees, stickers, posters, etc.) so the buyer never has to worry about the production and logistics.

I've heard too many horror stories about people on KS offering tees for $X only to find that the screen printer didn't mention a bunch of fees relating to setup/fulfillment/shipping and the true cost is $X*2 and the creator ends up spending a ton of energy and money trying to fix the issue.

Disclaimer: I work for Teespring, and this is exactly what we do (so I may be biased).

This is a great example of why Kickstarter should automate the production/fulfillment of these basic, common rewards. Too many organizers of Kickstarter projects list t-shirts, stickers, etc. in the rewards without even bothering to price the production out (or think about the amount of logistics required to fulfill hundreds to thousands of individual items).

Disclaimer: I work for Teespring, and pretty much all we do is automate this sort of thing (so I may be biased).

Interesting idea! Maybe we can put together a blog series with trends/stats on what sells and what doesn't.

Thanks for letting me know - should be all set now

Absolutely, we're currently doing mugs for TWiT (www.teespring.com/twitmugs) and our plan is to branch out to other items - we just want to make sure we can deliver an amazing experience in each product category before we expand to the next.

If you shoot me an email at walker (at) teespring (dot) com I'd be happy to work with you to setup a poster campaign.

We only use high quality screen printing, no digital printing or DTG printing here.

The great thing about using a crowdfunding model for apparel is you don't have to compromise of quality or price - you can have the best of both worlds.

Thanks for the heads up - should be fixed now!

Thanks Daniel! The 12plus tee is still one of our favorites.

Hi from Teespring! This is awesome - if anyone has any questions we're always happy to talk, I'll keep an eye on this thread and you can also reach us by email at walker (at) teespring (dot) com.

Just noticed this post got buried again... not really sure why but I was hoping someone could tell me?

Just wanted to add that I resubmitted this because my post yesterday was buried for a controversial title - reworked it and submitted for all those interested in watching Browserling progress!

Signed, a happy customer (Teespring.com)

I should clarify that I posted this, not Browserling. I'm just a happy customer.

I put YC Reject in the title because I thought it would be interesting to explore the companies who didn't make it into YC, but have still grown into successes.

Because we love soma.fm - it's a free service that many of us enjoy

Hey just wanted to give some context - I'm from the Teespring team, we signed on a couple months ago. Browserling has been incredible for us in terms of diagnosing fringe bugs and testing new features across multiple browsers quickly (especially javascript/dynamic elements).

Looking forward to seeing what's next