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I jumped through a lot of hoops to earn a free t-shirt that says "Everything will be 200 OK". I had to sign up for a couple cloud services and set up some kind of automation, essentially demo-ing the product to myself to get the shirt. It was smart on their part.

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My company sponsored a coding livestream recently that featured a dev integrating with our product and I was astonished at how excited folks were to have a chance to win a t-shirt.

the t-shirts are the best part of working in tech

Haha, hopefully there are other good parts too! But I confess, I'm wearing a "Enjoy Code" t-shirt (like "Enjoy Coke") I picked up at a conference right now.

And, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out anyone who wants a free FusionAuth t-shirt can go to https://fusionauth.io/download , install it, and share a screenshot and we'll ship you one. Further instructions there.

Unfortunately we can only ship to the USA and Canada for this offer.

Talking about marketing to devs, in the immortal words of Jess Fraz, "I really like nothing on my host... I am not going to freakin' install that." (:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cYsVvV1aVss&t=1000

Ah, fair point. There's an entire subreddit for folks who think differently, however: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

Takes all kinds.

People get unreasonably excited about swag. I try not to take T-shirts any longer unless there's something unique about them. If it's just some random company's name I'll pass. I've given away huge trash bags of lightly worn or unworn T-shirts and I still have massive piles of them.

I enjoy wearing my Twilio t-shirt. It’s still one of the comfiest ones I have.

I wouldn’t want the swag if I were not going to use it, so best to give high quality stuff.

As the purveyor of this shirt, it warms my heart to read this comment. We pretty much copied New Relic's model for this, and it worked really well. For awhile it felt like we were more a t-shirt company than a software company.

I have one of those shirts :)

This has been one of my favorite shirts for years. I also did the same thing :)

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