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Re:Show HN: Hashtagtee.me – A weekend attempt at passive income by jrosenberg99 on Saturday November 09, 2013 @08:46PM (#6704682)
With all due respect to your work, somehow I never understood the "t-shirt" startup idea. We live in a world where there are many problems to tackle in health, science, government and politics, yet I've seen dozens of attempts at these t-shirt startups.

I do not mean to discredit your work, that being said.

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Re:Show HN: Hashtagtee.me – A weekend attempt at passive income by Falling3 on Saturday November 09, 2013 @08:57PM (#6704723)
Probably because the OP was able to create this in a weekend or less in hopes of generating some passive income. That really doesn't compare to any problem (trivial or otherwise) in the areas you mentioned.
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Re:Show HN: Hashtagtee.me – A weekend attempt at passive income by increment_i on Saturday November 09, 2013 @10:35PM (#6705036)
It was explicitly stated that it was a weekend attempt at generating passive income.

OP wasn't exactly setting out to free Tibet here...

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Re:Show HN: Hashtagtee.me – A weekend attempt at passive income by frankdenbow on Sunday November 10, 2013 @05:43AM (#6705987)
Its a $17 billion dollar market that has many ways of being served better. The OP did say that it was just a weekend project and we all have to start somewhere. Elon Musk's first company was an internet city guide.
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Re:Show HN: Hashtagtee.me – A weekend attempt at passive income by QuasiAlon on Sunday November 10, 2013 @05:52AM (#6706002)
You can pretty much use this rationale with 95% of the internet businesses out there. Why try to produce a film via kickstarter when you can go to Africa and volunteer... etc.
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