DevSwag is designed to help projects get their materials out there. We run DevSwag at a loss as a service to the community. We aim to help projects and founders get their merch out there, without needing to spend ongoing time making it happen.

Selling Stickers

Stickers have always been a low-margin, high-manual labor effort. We don't turn a profit on them, but we know how meaningful they can be to have out there. So the TL;DR of our sticker operation today is, if you'd like your project in our sticker catalog and we agree that it's a good fit, you send us your stickers, and we sell them for you. There's no financial transaction beyond that—you contribute your stickers, we contribute our service and infrastructure, the stickers get to your enthusiastic users, and we hopefully get marginally closer to breaking even. 

While we don't mandate specific vendors, we do have strict quality controls, so if this seems like a great option for your project, the first step will be to either send us samples of your existing stickers to evaluate, or talk to us about your vendors. If we already know the quality of your vendor from having worked with them before, even better, and we're good to go.

Selling Tshirts

• We work together to approve the design of your Tshirt
• We sell your tshirts. Huzzah!

About half our catalog is stocked directly in our warehouse, and about half is printed on demand. Which is which just depends on expected volume of sales. Like with stickers, some of our projects simply ship us their merchandise, and we handle the rest.

Similar quality controls apply. Shirts fit for DevSwag have multiple fits—one primarily targeting traditionally male bodies, and one primarily targeting traditionally female bodies—and come in inclusive sizes (must go at least up to 2XL, ideally 5XL). We also focus on fabrics being soft and comfortable, versus standard issue rough trade-show fare. 

If you're looking for help selecting a base tshirt for a shirt you'd like to propose, feel free to reach out. We have alllll the samples and are happy to work together with you to choose the best option.

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Overall, DevSwag almost breaks even and exists to help folks with OSS projects who want the merch to exist, but don't want to be in the business of actually making it happen. To work with us on selling your project merch on DevSwag, email info@devswag.com.