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Crowdsourced T-Shirts

Teepay Lets You Design and Sell Your Own Tees Online

— July 29, 2009 — Business
Creative fashionistas unite! Teepay lets you create your own tee and post it to the website. Viewers look at it, judge it and can order it if they like your design. If there are enough people who are purchasing your tee, you get to see some of the profit too!

The website is relatively new but it already has 788 tees to choose from. Join the 1,444 designers the site already has on record if you have a creative tee design you wish to share with the world!

Check out the video above of Nylon making their own tees with the Ting Tings!
Trend Themes
1. Crowdsourcing - The trend of crowdsourcing allows individuals to collaborate on creating and selecting designs, offering innovative opportunities for fashion brands to tap into the creativity of their customers.
2. Print-on-demand - The rise of print-on-demand technology enables individuals to create and sell their own custom-designed products, opening up new possibilities for entrepreneurs to disrupt the traditional fashion industry.
3. User-generated Content - The increasing popularity of platforms that showcase and sell user-generated content, like Teepay, presents disruptive innovation opportunities for brands to leverage the creativity and engagement of their audience.
Industry Implications
1. Fashion - In the fashion industry, the emergence of crowdsourced and user-generated content platforms offers brands a chance to tap into the talents and preferences of their audience, enabling them to create unique and personalized products.
2. E-commerce - The e-commerce industry can leverage the trend of print-on-demand and crowdsourcing to provide individuals with the tools and platforms to create and sell their own merchandise, disrupting traditional retail models.
3. Creative Services - The rise of crowdsourced design platforms like Teepay opens up innovative opportunities for creative professionals and designers to monetize their skills by creating and selling their own designs directly to consumers.
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