Gary Vaynerchuck doesn’t just love a good glass of wine. He also loves a good T-Shirt. The video blogger behind Wine Library TV has just launched a T-Shirt search engine called PleaseDressMe with his brother AJ and Digg lead architect Joe Stump. The site is simple. It lets you search for T-shirts by keyword, tags, color, or price, and returns results from places like Threadless and BustedTees. It is not trying to search all T-shirt sites, just the cool ones.
I’m not going to harsh on this site too much because, well, it’s a T-shirt search engine. And it’s just a side project. But many keyword searches I tried turned up nothing. (Come on, Gary, you couldn’t find any “wine” T-shirts?). I did find “beer,” though. I’d suggest using the tag cloud to find what you are looking for, until the site crawls for more Ts.
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My search for “queen” yielded no shirts
Having interviewed Gary and Skinnycorp, and spent a little social time with Gary and AJ. I can see why the brothers came up with this. Watching them talk to Jake about Threadless, I wasn’t sure which man was more passionate about t-shirts…
My guess is, this site is just the tip of the iceburg. Gary has the mind of a marketer and knows how to create opportunity from anything.
Been using http://www.teenormous.com since launch the other week. Similar thing, and although not by a ‘leading guy’ personally it yeilds far better search results.
I’m actually heading to the cafe to add a bunch more shirts. Gary got a little excited and told Eric before I had a chance to add them. We’re also working on an API that will allow vendors to manage their shirts themselves adding shirts to the index whenever they want.
If you’ve got great shirts that you want added to our index please be sure and let us know via the contact us form!
Thanks!
–Joe
Congrats to Gary, AJ and Joe - 3 of the nicest guys on the web
What was wrong with rumplo.com ?
Congrats to Joe et al. Looks like some great work there.
*Psst*
It’s “chuk” not “chuck”
You would have thought they might have checked the main guys names before publishing!
That is definitely a great idea. I’m not sure how profitable it will be but you never know. If you guys like tee shirts be sure to check out my new project that is going very well so far http://www.tshirtplug.com
I will be posting about this on my t shirt blog for sure =) I hope I can get my tees into this search engine some how as well.
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Good idea, ihope it flies.
“Can you beer me now?” - priceless.
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great idea i hope they produce a tribal shirt design too…
It’s actually “Vaynerchuk” and not “Vaynerchuck” as this article would have you believe.
What can I say, I’m a Vaniak…
It’s a great idea but it’s lacking. The searches don’t always yield the intended results. Like someone mentioned about Teenormous yield better results. The Vaynerchuks might want to check it out and give their model a tweak.
Nifty. I might keep my eye on it.
Congrats, AJ, Gary, and Joe. Site looks great.
I can appreciate having a desire to find great tees. But I remain unconvinced that a search engine is the right tool to do so. First of all, there’s the problem of having to guess the keyword(s) that people are going to use to describe a design [not so bad with text based tees, but it quickly becomes problematic the more image or abstract based the design is].
The second issue is quantity - for the more popular terms the viewer is still stuck with pages of results which is why they’re avoiding browsing a google results page to begin with. They don’t want quantity - they want quality. Don’t give me the hundred tees that match “geek”. Give me the top 5 or 10 that are worth buying as a gift.
Third, there’s no accounting for taste. Not everybody searching will have the same taste in humor or art that someone else will. The designs from a store like TShirtHell will be incredibly funny to some, vastly offensive to others.
I go into greater depth on my Geek T-Shirt Review blog, MilitantGeek. If this project does have one thing going for it its the involvement of the Vaynerchuks. While the technological means and intent may miss the mark Gary is an incredible marketer (the fact that this is on TechCrunch is testament to that). For that reason alone I expect PleaseDress.Me to be around for awhile.
Image search is hard. Combine that
A search for “wine” yields no results. But Gary is amazing, so I’m sure he will just design some great wine themed shirts and make a fortune marketing and selling them!
The webmasters of online tee shops don’t really care about having the right key words on their products page, only little description about specs/material of the product itself. It makes thing harder to find T-shirts (or any apparel product) with word-based search engine
anyone can build something like this with Google custome search, but -pufff- it’s not gonna work
A T-shirt aggregator app? …I think it’s a great, simple idea. It worked quite well for me when I did several searches. (it would be nice if the “buy now” links opened in a new browser window).
I’m looking forward to seeing Gary video blog on “T-ShirtLibraryTV.com” ! If he can make wine interesting to everybody, T-shirts should be a slam dunk for him.
Reminds me of http://www.duckwithglasses.com - another t shirt aggregator which launched ~ 2 years back.
So is this the release early and fix it in post technique? Like what Gary does so I will leave this one on the radar for a couple seconds longer than most.
I’m excited to see how this affects our industry and to see our shirts on here. Congrats
congratulations guys! Does anyone know what search engine technology they are using? Is it entirely new code or did they license a search engine from yahoo, google, microsoft, etc? Also, how long until google jumps into this arena?
Not bad. but Teenormous is definitely far superior at this point.
“Just the cool ones.”
Did Gary write this article for you?
So I guess .me, tee, and shirtseek.com makes three…
congrats to Gary et al. I obviously have a passion for T-Shirts as I write a pretty popular T-Shirt blog at http://tcritic.com - my recommendation to the guys is to get more t-shirts on the front page, IMHO a t-shirt “browse engine” is more important than a t-shirt “search engine”. I think they should check out http://rumplo.com which does and amazing job of curating a wonderful collection of t-shirts that are collected by the community.
I agree, to an extent. That’s why I’ve made http://www.shirtseek.com to be a mix of both. I’d be very curious what you think of it.
Congrats Gary, AJ & Joe! I hope everything works out for you guys!
You guys should hear this Gary V. speak in public. I assure you you’ll think twice about ever buying anything from him.
@Molotov - I’ve heard Gary speak many times and have come to know him… He’s an excellent, inspiring speaker and a very genuine person.
I assure you that when others hear him speak, that they will *not* think twice about buying anything from him.
Cool site. While not all searches will produce results, these t-shirt search engines all seem to be a better place to start looking for t-shirts. I discovered Teeshirtdrama.com about 2-3 years ago which had this same concept. It was not as clean of a design but same concept. They are still around with a blog type t-shirt search engine. Besides the ones mentioned above I found others that are pretty cool. Search4tshirts.com is another that I love just because it seems to have more t-shirts than any of them. They need to work on their search feature as it produces too many unrelated results. I also found Go2tshirts.com which is a search engine, blog, and photo gallery of hot t-shirt models built in to one. Not as easy to navigate as some of these other sites but still a great site. The way I see it is I find looking for t-shirts easier on these sites than just randomly going on Google or Yahoo to find a shirt. Good work!