Programmer T-shirts for Charity

Second charity payout

andy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:49:48 +0000

$25.34 received from Zazzle.com has been sent to sightsavers.org.

First payout to charities

andy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:26:29 +0000

I’ve have just made the first payout. $106.20 of Zazzle T-shirt royalties split evenly between Sightsavers and JaipurFoot. Patrick has also made a very generous additional donation as he promised on his blog. Thanks to everyone that bought T-shirts or helped with the publicity.

Nearly all the sales were before Xmas. Sales have slowed to a crawl now. So I will probably leave the site ticking over and then try to get some more publicity for Xmas 2009.

stackoverflow.com ad

andy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:38:27 +0000

Things have gone rather quiet since Xmas. Hopefully that will change now that Jeff Atwood (of codinghorror.com fame) has put a free ad pointing to our Zazzle shop in rotation on stackoverflow.com . Thanks Jeff!

Stackoverflow is a commercial business that makes it’s money from ads, so it is very generous of them to give us from some free space.

We might well have got this ad in the optimal pre-Christmas period if I had emailed Jeff at a sensible email address. But somehow I managed to miss the email address hiding in plain sight on his codinghorror.com about page and emailed 2 other addresses – one I guessed (wrongly) and the other I got from his DNS records (which he hardly ever checks). Oops.

stackoverflow.com is a fantastic new free Q&A site for developers. If you haven’t checked it out already I strongly suggest you take a look – after you buy a T-shirt. ;0)

Commission update

andy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:34:33 +0000

Total T-shirts sold to date: 31 (26 via Zazzle, 5 via Spreadshirt).

Total commission pending: $74.09 (Zazzle), £7.50 (Spreadshirt).

That’s not bad going in less than a month.

The most popular designs are:

I’m coding: 7 sold
Mac coder: 7 sold
C++ programmer: 6 sold
Engineer’s lament: 5 sold

Andy will be making a payment to Jaipurfoot and Sightsavers once both Zazzle and Spreadshirt have paid out.

Thanks to everyone that has supported us so far with publicity or by buying a T-shirt.

Ladies T-shirts

andy — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:48:39 +0000

We realise that, although rare, female programmers do exist. To get a ladies fit T-shirt in one of our designs:
-go to http://zazzle.com/successfulsoftware
-Click on the design you want
-Click on ’select a different shirt style’
-Click on ‘women’
-choose the appropriate style, size and colour

$1 Shipping

andy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:10:31 +0000

Our North American shop currently has $1 shipping. See the link at the top of this page for more details.

Where Did This Idea Come From?

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:48:55 +0000

Andy Brice, a friend of mine who also specializes in software, came up with the idea to sell programmer T-shirts this Christmas for charity and mailed me, along with a few of our professional contacts, to help get the idea off the ground. Originally the project was a blog post and a linked Zazzle store but I thought it would look better as its own project with its own domain name.

Some days I think I’m a marketer who happens to be able to write regular expressions. s/Some/Most/