Profile for mahalov - threadless subsite idea

mahalov aka Levi is a 24.93 year old boy, has been a member since April 25, 2006, has scored 9,928 submissions, giving an average score of 2.40, helping 204 designs get printed.

URL: http://www.exoticrobotic.com
AIM: exoticrobotic

Jul 23 '07 by mahalov
102 Comments
Watch this
Share:

threadless subsite idea

I just sent skinnycorp this email

Love what you guys are doing with threadless. Its amazing and I'm sure you know that. But I am noticing that since I have joined there have been some great artists that have come along and subbed some really amazing designs, just to have it dropped early or get a low-deserving score. It seems there's a whole counter-culture going on at threadless with great designs but no love...and a smaller, but strong following of people who love the artsy type subs.

The selects are great but I think its time you guys started a whole new subsite for select type shirts. The new subsite would be for more artsy, experimental, inventive shirts. Maybe only release 3 limited edition shirts a week at a fair price. I think $17-$20 would keep most people happy and coming back for more.

I would be willing to start a petition to have artists/bloggers sign up for the subsite. I have a whole list of designers in my notebook that I would love to see put something on a tshirt (I actually wrote these out for my own business venture someday, but would love to see you guys do this first) and also know of a lot of devoted bloggers that go for this type of style.

what do you guys think?
I would love to start my own site like this, but it would have to wait a few years til i'm done with school. I know threadless could do a great job with it.

Page:

1 2 3

chelly on Jul 23 '07 at 8:13pm

just linked this in the other blog

it gives some discussion into the positives and negatives into a business venture such as the one you are considering

mahalov on Jul 23 '07 at 8:15pm

Here's a list of just threadless designers who would be great for this:

MRWalrusFace

Sonmi

Impossible josh

funkie fresh

goldkiss

kennnnnn

danger russ (skipper)

lehel

noponies

then i have another list of designers that arent apart of threadless, but would be great as well

chelly on Jul 23 '07 at 8:15pm

garrr LINKAGE

Mike4507 on Jul 23 '07 at 8:17pm

You confused me on the username switch, I thought someone stole your idea at first.

But everything is worded very well. I think this idea might be going places.

Also, I own your shirt.

mahalov on Jul 23 '07 at 8:18pm

haha yea whoops, i sign in on this name sometimes to check out the alumni section because i got printed on this account

sorry for the confusion

kayceislost on Jul 23 '07 at 8:20pm

get back on your other non alum account, sucka.

Cactus Pirate Jr. on Jul 23 '07 at 8:20pm

So would this hypothetical subsite use the same voting system as the regular site? Or...something else?

How would the shirts be chosen? I'm kind of confused.

sonmi on Jul 23 '07 at 8:21pm

atomic child on Jul 23 '07 at 8:22pm

www.rethreadjects.com...i want to start this site so bad

exoticrobotic on Jul 23 '07 at 8:23pm

yessa masta kayce, back to my old account with the other minions haha

the subsite would have a seperate submission and voting page. it would help weed out the people who arent interested in artsy shirts.

exoticrobotic on Jul 23 '07 at 8:24pm

the shirts could be chosen by threadless. I know they just hired UPSO for selects, so he could get in on this action.

Monkey III on Jul 23 '07 at 8:26pm

hmmm

Cactus Pirate Jr. on Jul 23 '07 at 8:27pm

But wouldn't the same people who give 0's to the great designs on here still be able to vote on the subsite?

kayceislost on Jul 23 '07 at 8:28pm

ahahah yessss i control you

wait

ahaha

Monkey III on Jul 23 '07 at 8:29pm

I agree with Cactus P on this one.

exoticrobotic on Jul 23 '07 at 8:30pm

yeah they would be able to vote on the subsite, but it would be set up kind of like threadlesskids.com

only parents probably vote on threadlesskids, and only people that are into artsy shirts would vote on the new subsite

on a side note...listen to the song "too many tshirts" by prizzy prizzy please brought to my attention on shimala's new video

Cactus Pirate Jr. on Jul 23 '07 at 8:31pm

oh i see now

kayceislost on Jul 23 '07 at 8:31pm

why arent you on aim hooker?

BlameTheSuburbs on Jul 23 '07 at 8:32pm

Don't you think threadless already does this to some extent?

exoticrobotic on Jul 23 '07 at 8:32pm

because my real woman just called me to hang out haha. i'll check back on this later and get that petition started

Monkey III on Jul 23 '07 at 8:34pm

and what's artsy and what's not?

and when is that arty art of quality?

Kids designs are much easier to pick I think.

Problematic...

kayceislost on Jul 23 '07 at 8:35pm

aaaaaahahahaahhaha

im imaginary. AN IMAGINARY HOMEWRECKER.

ir0cko on Jul 23 '07 at 8:40pm

*sings* chocolate rainnnnnnn...

chelly on Jul 23 '07 at 9:19pm

boo to my blog being totally ignored even though we talked about most of this ages ago

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 10:13pm

I like the idea of a home for some of the design that get blasted by the voters, but I don't think it should be up to threadless to make this happen.

I've got a couple ways that this could work.

I like the idea of a home for some of the design that get blasted by the voters, but I don't think it should be up to threadless to make this happen.

I've got a ways that this could work.

It would be a membership site and the members would nominate a design then the members would decide which one to print. Then we would print 150 shirts, once we have sold enough shirts to put another shirt in production we would start the process over again. All the profits after production cost would go to the artist.

lets say we had 40 members and all you need to be in is 25 bucks that's 1000 for production then the rest go to the artist. This website would not be a business it would be more of a t-shirt club, not out to make a profit just out to get really unique t-shirts.

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 10:25pm

sorry bout the weird double post.

ISABOA on Jul 23 '07 at 10:26pm

another site to turn me down - .... YAY!

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 10:27pm

hahaha... don't like the idea?

Mike4507 on Jul 23 '07 at 10:28pm

I like that idea Edword.

The only problem is whoever was running it would have to have resources to printers, shirts, etc.

Threadless has all those resources.

ISABOA on Jul 23 '07 at 10:29pm

i love the idea edword - you da man - 5$ to your idea

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 10:36pm

thanks isaboa .

Mike4507 - that kind of stuff is not hard to get. I can get AA for wholesale that would be drop shipped at the printer. mammoth print shop has a rep with alot of the artist that have self printed so we could go with them. then they would be shipped to the artist and they would be in charge of shipping them out to customers.

ISABOA on Jul 23 '07 at 10:40pm

i have a four color screen printing setup - but i have feet for hands

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 10:44pm

are you fo realz? that's awesome! have you ever used it? do you have a dryer?

chelly on Jul 23 '07 at 10:46pm

that's it, i'm giving each of you a bruise if i see you in person.

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 10:47pm

why? what we do?

ISABOA on Jul 23 '07 at 10:49pm

I do for realz - but I dont have a dryer - whats that for?

i would totally take a punch from chelly -

Mike4507 on Jul 23 '07 at 10:50pm

You make good points Edword. I admit defeat.

exoticrobotic on Jul 23 '07 at 10:52pm

yea i've thought of that too, might be something cool to do :)

maybe we could focus on that instead

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 10:57pm

I think it would be great! step one would be getting Organized.

exoticrobotic on Jul 23 '07 at 10:59pm

yeah, big step haha

but this could turn into something neat

do you have aim edword?

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 10:59pm

ISABOA- you need a drying system to get the ink to set right, there are some airing inks but I wouldn't trust them. I'd rather leave the screen printing to the pros but it would be fun to fool around with.

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 11:01pm

no I'm not on aim:(

we could set up a blogger blog or something. we could call it "project tee"

exoticrobotic on Jul 23 '07 at 11:02pm

msn? phone? fax?

lets talk about his more! haha

whats a blogger blog?

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 11:06pm

you know the free blogging site.

www.blogger.com

start a blog and invite folks that might be into it.

ISABOA on Jul 23 '07 at 11:07pm

i figured it was complicated - thats why i havnt done nothing with it

exoticrobotic on Jul 23 '07 at 11:12pm

ah i gotcha, before we would commit to a website and all?

Myxxoma on Jul 23 '07 at 11:14pm

What about if the Threadless Selects weren't just for alumni designers? I think Threadless should instead invite those with the unique aesthetic to get printed.

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 11:16pm

right! this would pretty much be DYI you know low overhead to maximize the profits for the artist. We could do a sign up on the blog and just use paypal to get the first wave of members.

exoticrobotic on Jul 23 '07 at 11:16pm

they invite people outside of threadless too

Edword on Jul 23 '07 at 11:16pm

Myxxoma - they do.

Page:

1 2 3

(102 comments!)

You must be logged in to leave a comment.