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Why don't you allow single orders? I always thought you required 10+ shirts because you had to create some sort of mold and load it into the printers, but it seems that isn't the case.

With everything automated, you could easily allow anyone to create any number of shirts.

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i think your initial thought is spot on unless they've figured out someway to automate the molds and store them for retrieval at a later time.

apparently they are on the verge of releasing an API and widget so that t shirt designers can embed directly onto their own site. http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/11/teespring-wants-to-be-the-p...

If they are able to allow single orders along with the widget I don't see whats stopping them from taking over the entire market as they are taking all of the hard work out of running a t shirt company.

good luck fellas

Probably because they choose screen printing for the process, in which most of the cost is in the setup (so its not cost effective to do all that work for 1 shirt).

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