U can haz t-shurts?

I couldn’t sleep last night. I had my first major breakthrough for an idea. Normally I would be keeping this idea a secret but I have a reason to share.

The idea was for lolcat t-shirts.

I bet the idea has been thrown around but no particular “store” has been made to specifically sell shirts with a lolcat on it. My idea was specifically for customers to upload the lolcat they want on the t-shirt. Of course there will also be pre-made ones for the most popular lolcats.

Imagine a t-shirt of a lolcat wearing a t-shirt of a lolcat wearing a t-shirt… yeah you get it. Add a funny caption as well.

I came up with domain names, hosting options, website layouts, models, profit numbers, time management problems, money issues, “lolcat gramur”, beta’s, trails, competition, partnerships, marketing, t-shirt making techniques, and finally legal issues. . .

icanhascheezburger currently has the monopoly over lolcats and believe it or not, they have a store. But the items they sell are ICHC-related products which have little to no relation to what I am aiming at. So technically I still can proceed with this. . .

But while looking over the terms of use, I came upon this:

Any use of the Website or its Content or services that Pet Holdings finds, in its sole discretion, to use its resources or User Submissions with the effect of competing with or displacing the market for the Website, its Content, or its User Submissions.

Being only 16, I do not have much legal knowledge (I even tried asking a lawyer teacher at my school) about copyrights and permissions, etc. But what I do know is if this idea did come about, many customers will probably take pictures from icanhascheezburger (maybe even crop out the little trademark out) and this can lead to all sorts of issues and CEO Ben Huh and Pet Holdings, Inc will not be very happy.

There is also the thing with making t-shirts during our busy school-weeks. There is that part of me that would not risk going to college for a t-shirt company.

And I’m not sure our parents would be too keen on investing money for t-shirt screening materials. This website seems to be quite helpful in that factor but we could also find potential partner-ups in the local area. Then this all comes back to money again.

So we definitely need help if anything is to happen. This might be newbish bit its worth a try. I declare this post an informal open letter to Ben Huh and anyone else that might be able to help us. I call for a partnership or some formal deal. Digg this post, email us, leave a comment, any support is appreciated. Somehow get this word to the right people.

A large part of me believes nothing will come out of this but that sentimental child inside of me can still hope.

~Kevin X