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That could be even more awesome when combined with Polyvore (http://www.polyvore.com)

Now that would be useful if it were not limited to the US

sounds pretty much like rumplo

Mark my words: One day, after AJ graduates from college, his brother Gary will retire from Wine Library TV and just sit around thinking of good website ideas together.

Great, simple idea! I especially enjoy the URL choice

I love fresh web ideas but a little curious to know how it makes money. Please excuse my ignorance.

@Chris, I would assume they are making money through a affiliate links to the tshirts. I mean that seems like the most logical way to make the site work.

Search seems weak compared to teenormous.com but they do seem to be getting a lot of buzz. Lots of noise, not much signal…

They make money from the tshirts’ vendors, of course. Every click goes through an affiliate link before landing on the store page. There seems to be more third-party affiliate sites, probably depending on what each store and pleasedressme finally agreed upon.

“How many times have you been looking for a shirt you saw on someone by Googling”

Suppose I see a t-shirt and want to find how to buy it off the internet. Now, instead of Googling “Do you smell what Barack is Cookin t-shirt,” I’m supposed to google “t-shirt search engine,” see this site pop up, and then use it instead? The first result from Google is already what I want. Will this site have regular users? Are there people that want to look up t-shirts so often that it’s worth remembering that there’s this niche alternative to Google? I don’t get it.

JM makes a great point. Other than blog posts like this one, how are people hearing about this? Facebook/MySpace?

Still, once they get the word out, I don’t see why they shouldn’t do well.

http://www.teecrush.com and rumplo.com have been doing this for months…

Love the Rumplo site. How long has that been around for?

We have found sites like shirtsonsale, rumplo, and others can extract our tshirt data from our RSS feeds, as a vendor it takes a ton of time to just maintain a site, there is not much motivation to take more time and upload all designs (in our case a new design everyday at TeeFury.com). I do think the site looks great though! Is there any easy way to load tees that is more automatic?

This is an exercise in internet celebrity, web 2.0 logos, and bad domain names. They’ll make tons of money because GaryV is already so popular, but I just don’t see why this site is getting so much coverage, and from the likes of CNET even. It’s a manually populated database for Pete’s sake. I just don’t see the innovation, outside of the internet marketing efforts that GaryV has already shown grandmaster ninja skills at in his other ventures.

If I was behind any of the other t-shirt search engines out there and didn’t have an already internet-famous brother, I’d be pissed.

Web 2.0 Logos make me want to part with my money. It must be that they are shiny! ;)