Devshirt club story

How we started

You could probably say that we started when our founder Mike bought his first software engineering t-shirt 6 years ago. For him that was both a moment of great joy as well as a moment of great disappointment. When he ordered his first developer t-shirt online, he was quite excited and happy. He was thrilled with the quality, he was enjoying the fact that he can brag to his colleagues about his shirt, everything seems great. But as time passed he realised more and more. The quality of t-shirt he ordered is nothing special. The shirt was made out of polyester, the illustration on it was quite basic, something a 5 year old talented drawer could do. And in the end our hero Mike felt a bit scammed.

That was the moment that he realised that he wants to improve on it, he wanted to bring high quality illustrations to the playfield, he also wanted to do t-shirts that are 100% cotton, a comfy and durable material. He wanted to do t-shirts that had that punchline. That was the moment devshirt.club idea was born.

Soon after having his eyes on the domain, he figured he needs to deliver high quality, so he hired an illustrator. Started working with him closely. Started defining design briefs. Kept learning what’s possible and what’s insanely complicated. Iterated on the design and defining how the product should look like. What should be a proper price and all sorts of product related things. A couple of website redesigns later, a bunch of happy customers and here we are.

The end goal was and always will be:

To give you a good deal, while bringing a bit of joy your life. Make you proud for being in IT industry.

Our design process:

We brainstorm which topics might interest you. Thoroughly research the topic to make sure we are not getting something wrong. After that we write the manifesto. After manifestos we write design briefs. And at the very end we do illustration of t-shirts. During illustration process we do a couple of iterations to make sure our illustrations are at the top of their game.