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

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

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Post by gerry_shaw »

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.

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

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Post by gerry_shaw »

R3dat wrote: post #3

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

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.

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

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Post by gerry_shaw »

shafyy wrote: post #4

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

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

Thanks for the suggestion.

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

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Post by fizzbatter »

gerry_shaw wrote: post #5
R3dat wrote: post #3

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

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.

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.

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

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Post by fizzbatter »

gerry_shaw wrote: post #2

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…

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 :)

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

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Post by freedompop123 »

gerry_shaw wrote: post #7
shafyy wrote: post #4

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

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

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