SPOILER: It has a month, 28 designs, more manual work than I expected, and only $ 3 in revenue.
On the day of the sun, walking through a street in Miami Beach, a T -shirt grabbed my eyes. At first glance, I thought he read “lactose”, which immediately turned my attention. Surprisingly, I looked closely and I noticed that I was wrong-it was actually a classic “lockst” T-shirt that included the famous crocodile logo. This playful misunderstanding made a smile on my face, and I immediately. Imagine breastfeeding crocodiles. Once after home, I decided to bring this cunning image into life with Chat GPT. When indicated
“Prepare T -shirt design, called” lactose “, as well as a lockwost brand, crocodile logo with drinking milk?” What he created is this:
I really liked how it came out – it felt like I really enjoyed wearing. Then he hit me: Why are people still living with the plane’s brand logo for the same old boring T -shirts? Thanks to AI, making unique and entertaining art is much easier than ever. Only when the idea hit me – if it is easy to design shirts, why not try to sell them?
After a quick research, I realized that my “art on T -shirts” mental storm is not new. Sellers usually choose between two routes
1. Launch your store front and plug into a completion partner.
You wander a ShopsFor, for, for,. WooCommerceOr Square space Site, then connect it to a service Printed Or Printage Which sends print and ship to every order on demand. Perk? Full control over your brand, pricing, and customer list. Catch? You are also the head of marketing, customer support, and tech maintenance – so expect to spend more time in your service management as shirts design.
2.
Like platforms Redball And Amazon pepper on demand Leave a complete “store” step. Upload your design, choose a markup, and they showcase their work to millions of current buyers – manufacturing, shipping, even return – handle everything. You will get royalty instead of the entire sales price, but the upside is easy: you now reach a huge built -in audience, give nothing in front, and never have to mess with printing, packing, or customer service.
I went with another option – it seemed that the fastest, easiest way to make some money.
The print on demand is on the world’s largest player Amazon Chili demand. Creators easily upload a design file, select the color of the product, and fix the list price. The Amazon then automatically produces a product page. When someone buys, Amazon prints this item, sends it (prime lzel), handles and returns customer service, and pays you royalty-generally 13-37 % of the sales price. Since your listing sits in Amazon’s main catalog, your art is exhibited worldwide immediately without any cost.
However, despite numerous efforts, I could not successfully register the contents of Amazon as a creator. Registration process requires detailed business contact information, bank information, and your social security number. After submitting the application, the review process took two weeks, eventually ending with a common message: “We appreciate your interest, but your account request has been rejected.” My guess is that the addition of AI generated artwork has rejected Amazon more selected, green lighting just a proven track record -holding designers and newcomers like himself who intend to post photos made from Chat GPT.
Next I RedballThe second largest print on demand market. The redable signup was easy-my account was immediately approved and I started uploading my design on the first day. Redbill is over 5m usersSo I hope my designs will go viral immediately. Redable has another advantage Huge catalogBeyond T-shirts, your design can be covered by stickers, hoodies, and phone issues to broken bags, posters, mugs, throwing, pillows, shower curtains-even the jigs puzzles and more than the Dawut Core-70 product types can be covered.
The first challenge I faced is that the quality of Chat GPT was not enough for high quality printing. Standard Chattgot Pts 1024 x 1024 Pixel Resolution, but The template of the Redbills At least 2875 × 3900 pixels for a premium T-shirt demand a jump about ten times in the pixels. In other words, my beautiful milk -drinker looked great on the Crook screen, but it would print on the real fabric like a faded pin stamp. L i up to up my pictures, I finished using Canva Pro’s “Apscler,” A helpful tool that improves image quality and increases the resolution up to 8x. The resolution is still not perfect, but the Enough of Redball needs is enough. Chat GPT also improves output quality by making the right hint. Clear indicating also helps. Here has been indicated:
“Create a transparent background, high resolution, clean edges, no background samples, designed for widespread printing. Emphasize explanation, sophistication and color balance. Directly suitable for field or large format print. 4K resolution or more.”
With the artwork being advanced and ready, the ultimate task was to upload the Scroll Stoping title, a nest description, a set of keyword tags, and the redable. I handed over this task to Chat GPT, seeking SEO friendly suggestions designed to find the algorithm.
Here are some design snap shots with which I have come out. I tried to diversify my designs with light heart graphics and niche topics, such as funny design, travel, or yoga -infected print:
A link to my entire collection is: Vatientity Shop
My routine was straightforward: For an example, quick chatigat, promotes resolution in Canawa’s upset, creates a SEO friendly title and detail to the Chat GPT Draft, and eventually uploads everything to Redbal. Every design – the idea of ”publish” – taken about 20-130 minutes. Most of the time was just to stop Chat GPT. His first draft is rarely similar to the image in my head, so some of the repetitive gestures were always needed. Uploads Chat GPT-> Canva-> Redable, Repeated Courses to wait for the results, highlight problems and re-upload it became a headache.
Even despite the extra work, it was fun to make photos. In the evening after my day’s job, I collected 28 different designs.
Traffic has never really descended. During April, when I was uploaded permanently, the shop pulled into unique visitors around 40. Once I stopped adding new designs, it became about 20 in a month (see the chart below).
During the three months, the clicks sold only two: a “unlimited travel” sticker who received 3 0.3 and a “category” T-shirt that laid a net of 3 3.31-Grand Total, 61 3.61.
Ironically, my first “lactose” design for copyright matters was removed. I confirmed that the artwork was completely real, so my guess is that Redbills flagged it because the lands of Pin are also close to the Locoast’s trademark name and logo.
AI does not give easy money. Each design still has a work of up to 30 minutes. And you are competing with experienced designers who connect real artity with AI, so raw chat GPT images rarely measure. I am not saying that you should not try. Many creators are living like this. Just know that success demands two things: People actually want, and real creative skills to develop a permanent marketing effort – because only market traffic will not move the needle.