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Damn, ok. Good feedback. I heard that from someone else, too. Our attention spans are fried, lol. Can't wait 20 seconds for a shirt preview! It's true though. So the first "preview" is just rendering text on top of a blank shirt mockup, and the the second one (after you click and go to /preview) actually sends the text to the Printful API to get a render of how the shirt will actually appear. That's the delay, waiting for the final image to come back from Printful.

Ok I just added support for 204 additional countries and currencies. Can you try it now and let me know if you're one of them :)

Yes! You can thank my mom for that :) She wanted a shirt with some extra unicode characters yesterday so I added support for that.

Your site supports Hebrew, but it looks like Printful doesn't for most fonts. They all come back with placeholder characters. The letters do show up with at least some of the fonts if I design directly on Printful.

Which font and characters are you looking for, I can add them.

I've added a few requested countries and am adding a bunch more right now. Give me a few minutes and I should have most places that Printful ships to (sorry Russian, UAE and Pakistan)

that's the Printful API. Once a phrase has been generated it's cached so it's instant next time. Do you have any suggestions on how to make it faster?

it's often faster than that, that's just the longest it ever takes so I set the countdown timer to 20 seconds. if you can think of a better way to present that I'd love to hear it.

The pricing includes printing, shipping, and handling. There's no markup on top of Printful's base cost. If you're comparing against going to Printful directly yourself, the price should be the same. If you're seeing a difference, mind sharing what product/shipping you were comparing? Could be a regional shipping rate thing.

Printful. It has its issues for sure but the API is solid and fulfillment has been reliable so far. What are you running into with them?

I was having some issues with creating assets using their API across the different products they sell. They weren't make or break though.

Yeah I've been hearing that a lot today. Lesson learned, updating the copy to say t-shirt.

That would be funny if people started printing off log crap onto shirts because they did | tee to them

Ha, fair point. A few people have mentioned the confusion. Going with "t-shirt" going forward.

If we can't ship to your country yet the button is disabled so you don't go through the whole flow and hit a dead end. Working on expanding shipping though. Where are you located? Would help me prioritize.

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