Code Your Own T-shirt

I verified that I could create a simple JavaScript editor which executes the code in React, and also looked into whether I could integrate with Redbubble via their API. The JavaScript editor worked, but Redbubble doesn't appear to support any public APIs - in fact it's pretty clear they don't want any robots submitting artwork.

So rather than integrating with Rebubble automatically, I've decided to manually upload any artwork that users chose to share.

In the end I launched a static site hosted on AWS with a simple Django backend.

I was driving home from an outdoors trip and I was trying to think of a silly e-commerce example for a tech talk, and then I eventually realised that designing your own t-shirt with JavaScript would be a fun website for programmers. I started hacking on it when I got home

I found out about Redbubble and got pretty excited with the idea of using some sort of line-based finite automata to create a t-shirt design. I had read a blog post by Stephen Wolfram and I really liked the patterns generated by one of the automata he described.