Ask HN: How do I get people to buy my tshirts? I had the stupid idea of designing a tshirt about memorising 39 digits of pi (because that's how many you need to measure the circumference of the observable universe within the width of one hydrogen atom). I posted it on Hacker News, a few subreddits and some startup link directories that I found. I made a website and everything at http://memorize39digitsofpi.com/ It was a massive, humiliating failure. I didn't sell a single tshirt on Teespring and the statistics weren't very impressive either. It was a stupid idea, but I was still disappointed. To be fair, I didn't even try that hard. I ignorantly expected it to blow up given that it was Pi Day. But now I'm sitting here thinking how I wasted $10 on a domain (I'm hosting it for free off of GitHub Pages). I want to give it another shot and run another Teespring campaign. I literally just want to get my $10 back for the domain. Everything else is extra. How can I achieve this? |