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foxpress

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About foxpress

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

$ npx teebot "your text here"

feedback@teebot.dev

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47487104

    Which font and characters are you looking for, I can add them.

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    Comment #47481347

    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 possibiliti…

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    Comment #47478955

    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…

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    Comment #47478661

    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 :)

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    Comment #47478629

    Yes! You can thank my mom for that :) She wanted a shirt with some extra unicode characters yesterday so I added support for that.

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    Comment #47478562

    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 Pakist…

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    Comment #47478528

    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.…

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    Comment #47478422

    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?

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    Comment #47478260

    Yep, hearing this loud and clear. Updating the copy to say t-shirt.

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    Comment #47478255

    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.

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    Comment #47478243

    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 …

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    Comment #47478225

    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?

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    Comment #47478218

    Yeah I've been hearing that a lot today. Lesson learned, updating the copy to say t-shirt.

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    Comment #47478210

    Ha, fair point. A few people have mentioned the confusion. Going with "t-shirt" going forward.

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    Comment #47478202

    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? …

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    Comment #47478154

    ok, will do. t-shirt going forward. I thought the tee command connection was cute but clearly I missed the mark on that one

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    Comment #47476773

    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 …

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