The Timeline for Facebook Pages is here and we are seeking your advice! While preparing the design for our new page we just could not decide what would make a great first cover photo. Then we once again realised we had an awesome community of creative people and design pros to help us out. Why not ask them? So here is the question: Could you help us out? continue reading ‘Design Contest – The First Spreadshirt Facebook Cover Picture’

Between the 26th and the 31st of December we asked you to vote for the Design Of The Year on our Facebook page. All in all there were three competitions running. One for the US marketplace, one for UK and one for Germany. Those who clicked “I Like” on their favorite designs could also win a shirt with design of the year on it.
So here are the three winners:

Thank you to all those who participated. We will contact the winners by email.

In case you missed it, we had two fine surprises for you on International T-Shirt Day – free shipping all day and a fun t-shirt photo contest for all! From all of the participants, we are awarding 3 sets of 10 free shirts to three lucky t-shirt fans wearing their favourite shirts.

We chose 8 finalists from the many submissions on the blog and on Facebook and asked for your help deciding on the winner. We agreed with many of your votes and Penelope, Willie and the Twins are the winners – Congrats! We’ll be in touch with you

The past few days we’ve presented the 14 submissions for Spreadshirt’s 1st ever API contest. Now we’re ready to name the winners! As you saw in Martin’s posts (Part 1 and Part 2), we broke the submissions down in to 5 different categories. The majority of the submissions fell into the category “bringing different types of content to clothing”. In the API contest’s description, we purposely decided against laying down clear category boundary lines – but this is still covered within our platform strategy. The fact that many of the submissions fell into this type of category has influenced how we approach our API and how future contests will be organized. But, more on that at a later date.

Intro out of the way, let’s get to the winners! After lots of meetings and hefty discussion, we decided to award the prizes as follows: continue reading ‘Winners of Spreadshirt’s 1st API Contest’

Earlier today we took a closer look at 8 of the 14 submissions for the 1st Spreadshirt API contest. Now we want to present the 6 remaining apps that dealt with the question: “how to do you best integrate the Spreadshirt API in existing websites?”

Topic 3: How do I integrate Spreadshirt content into existing websites?

The Spreadshirt API was used in this area to access article or design lists from Spreadshirt shops and present them, create new products and allow them to be added to the basket for purchase.

ShirtPress –Wordpress Plugin

URL: http://example.shirtpress-plugin.de/shop
Screenshots:

Description:

ShirtPress is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to show article lists from Spreadshirt shops directly in a Wordpress blog for purchase. ShirtPress creates its own basket that the customer can use to add articles and then purchase from there. Checkout then follows via the Spreadshirt checkout system.

Sheepstealers – Wordpress Plugin

URL: http://www.sheepstealers.ie/
Screenshots: continue reading ‘Presenting Submissions for Spreadshirts 1st API Contest – Part 2′

We promised to take a close look at the submissions for Spreadshirt’s 1st API Contest. Today we present 8 of those submissions (grouped thematically). These apps all have their own answer to the question: how do I get content onto clothing in an easy and unconventional way?

Topic 1: How do I bring existing content from various sources to clothing?

In this area, the Spreadshirt API was used to access information about Spreadshirt clothing, upload photos, create products and add those to the shopping cart for purchase.

ShirtGraph – Pictures from Photo Network Clouds on Clothing

URL: http://shirtgraph.com/
Screenshots:

Shirtgraph takes photos shot with a smartphone using Instagram or Picplz that are saved in the cloud and simply adds them to clothing. ShirtGraph is a very nice mashup that brings customers’ photos to shirts using a number of different APIs. The wizard in ShirtGraph is really innovative, as it helps you choose the right images and layout so they appear correctly on the product. continue reading ‘Presenting Submissions for Spreadshirts 1st API Contest – Part 1′

Spreadshirt’s first API Contest came to an end on 31 May. Since the beginning of April, we’ve had some creative developers working with our API to create new apps. We were happy to see 14 submissions for the contest – each going for the prizes of €3,000, €2,000 and €1,000 for first, second and third place. But, before we reveal the winners, we want to introduce all of the submissions.

The projects center around the following topics, which incidentally fit very well with our API strategy (see our CEO Phil’s interview with Exciting Commerce):

• How do I bring existing content from various sources onto clothing, e.g. images from a smartphone, images from social networks, texts from an SMS?
• How do you create interactive content for clothing, e.g. QR codes, drawn images?
• How do I integrate content from Spreadshirt into websites, e.g. Wordpress or Facebook?
• How do I create my own shop front-end, e.g. custom layouts, more SEO optimization?
• How do I create generic shop software for other Spreadshirt shops, e.g. as a shop hoster or reseller?

Many were most likely inspired by the Simplomat examples on the Developer Blog, where we showed how easy it is to use HTML, a little Javascript and the Spreadshirt API to bring images and text on clothing. The Simplomat code was also available for developers to use in the contest.

We will take a closer look at the 14 submissions in two parts over the next two days. Stay tuned!

Calling all developers! The time has come: as forewarned we are looking for innovative and creative apps developed with our REST API. And today we’re starting that quest with the first Spreadshirt API contest.

Basic Details

The contest starts today and runs until the end of the day on May 31st, 2011. First place gets €3,000, second place €2,000 and third €1,000. You can pretty much create whatever kind of app you want – but we’ve provided you with a couple ideas on the Developer Blog API Contest page. You’ll find even more details there along with the T&Cs for your perusal.

Apps can be submitted either in the API forum, or if you want to keep your stuff private in an email to api-contest AT spreadshirt . net. If you have any questions, let us know in the comments below or directly in the forum.
continue reading ‘Spreadshirt API Contest Begins Today’

Last October we introduced you to the new Spreadshirt API. Now that we have a couple of demo-apps, ran some tests and got feedback from a number of partners, we want to take the API to another level. Namely, a Spreadshirt API Contest where we will be looking for and premiering the best Spreadshirt API applications.

The contest is very open – that means, you decide what kind of application you write and what it would be used for. A good start would be to put some thought into the API and get to know its powers, or tell your computer savvy friends about this opportunity. You can find documentation in the Developer WIki and the API forum is starting to take off (thanks to Patrick). Oh, and one more thing: if you have any suggestions for prizes, let us know!

Like other API contests, we want to give the winner more than just fame and hard-earned cash. We want to add something special on top. Perhaps something along the lines of a battle ax (like wufoo) or a 3D printer (like bit.ly)? What do you think?

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