A list of swag opportunities for developers • Hacker News Board

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by oligopoly » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 7:44 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #3

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

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.

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by username223 » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 7:50 PM UTC

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! ;-)

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by swapagarwal » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 7:54 PM UTC

jcoffland wrote: post #18

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 y…

Ah. The Good Ol' Days!

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by jxub » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 8:32 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #19

xtony wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you contact these places?

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

Won't cut it for RethinkDB though :/

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by jxub » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC

swapagarwal wrote: post #15

half-kh-hacker wrote: post #10

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

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

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

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by jxub » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 8:36 PM UTC

username223 wrote: post #22

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! ;-)

Beats having to wash used ones though.

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by swapagarwal » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 8:57 PM UTC

trashcan wrote: post #17

hoschicz wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Source?

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

Added to the list, by @HarrisJT!

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by zck » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 9:09 PM UTC

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.

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by whatismybrowser » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 9:38 PM UTC

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/

Re: A list of swag opportunities for developers

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Post by bdcravens » Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 9:46 PM UTC

zck wrote: post #28

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.

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