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Frank Denbow

INK'A - Automatically ship branded goods to your community

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INK'A allows businesses to produce and distribute custom merchandise easily. With INK'A businesses can have apparel and thank you packs produced, stored, and shipped as orders come in from leading sales and marketing platforms like Shopify, Zapier, and Viral Loops. New designer tool to visualize your designs along with new garments to print on.

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Savvas Zortikis
So excited to see INK'A launching and Viral Loops as one of the first integrations! Keep up the great work Frank 🙌
Frank Denbow
Maker
@savvaszortikis love the service you guys have and how quickly you were able to implement our api!
Dylan Bathurst
Sweet so it’s like Lob or Stripe but for startup swag?
Frank Denbow
Maker
@dylanbathurst yes! if you're looking to automate any sales and marketing related programs that deal with branded goods (marketing packs for new clients, a tshirt sent to a new lead for account based marketing, etc) now you can automate it.
Harry Raymond

My go-to solution for branded tshirts and hoodies.

Pros:

Easy-to-use designer tool

Integration with Zapier

Comfy, well-printed tshirts

Good prices

Cons:

none

Peter Frank
This is exactly what we've been looking for. The option to pair with our Shopify store for fulfillment and integrate via API were must-haves. Excited to try it out.
Frank Denbow
Maker
@peterkimfrank Good to hear Peter! Shoot me an email at frank@inka.io and we can help get you setup
Vineet Devaiah
Wow , this is such an awesome service 👏
Frank Denbow
Maker
@vineetdevaiah Thanks! Let us know if we can help you get started
Drew Reynolds
Awesome job as always @frank_denbow! Great to see how StartupThreads has evolved into this new, larger product. 🚀👍
Frank Denbow
Maker
@nydrewreynolds Thanks Grew! Try it out and let me know how it goes
Josh
Do you guys do custom tag printing on the inside of the shirt?
Frank Denbow
Maker
@joshwhiteheadme yep we can do this, although it isn't part of the online designer
Yuyu
This looks awesome. Is WooCommerce integration coming up?
Frank Denbow
Maker
@swsalim it's not in the immediate plans but definitely one that has been requested many times so likely for next year
Roland Ligtenberg

Frank and team is great!

Pros:

Great founder, great customer service, very good pricing

Cons:

Would love to see even more products!

Roland Ligtenberg
Love the rebrand/relaunch - congrats! Definitely a great product & service, and Viral Loops integration is a great idea!
Rob Caucci
I love the evolution! Congrats on the next step of the journey... great re-brand and I really dig the expansion into other merch categories (beyond t-shirts).
Mitchell Cuevas

I've used this team for years and know many of their happy customers. You can't go wrong with Frank and company.

Pros:

Quality apparel, attention to detail, always amazing customer service.

Cons:

I'll miss the Startup Threads brand, but this makes sense :)

Nicolás Parziale
This is awesome! Can it be shipped internationally?
Frank Denbow
Maker
@nparziale yes! We ship international quite a bit
Diego Saez Gil
Looks amazing! Keep it up!!
Stef Lewandowski
Looks great! Who did your explainer? Lots of nice touches in there.
Stef Lewandowski
Just one thought. My community is 95% women - I couldn't tell which of these products had women's fit. The model images seemed to be male cut being shown as default. The V-neck is showing the back of the shirt as the hero image. Anything on the site to help with sizes/cuts etc?
Frank Denbow
Maker
@stef Hey Stef! All the styles have the sizes listed on the bottom left of the designer. Most have women's and mens sizes (we chose to always include the mens and women's equivalent when possible instead of just listing sizes as unisex as now folks have a greater size range) and we have a few womens only cuts as well (muscle tanks, flowy tees, racerback tanks etc). We'll be adding more as well. We dont yet have the ability to switch the mockup style depending on the sizes on the style (its a bit involved as we don't know initially what sizes people are going to order so how do you visualize it at that point?). We have some thoughts on it and will be adding better visualizations for the various cuts and how it will look later in the order process, but if you have suggestions let us know.
Stef Lewandowski
@frank_denbow Cheers! From running meetups in the past I've learnt that getting the mix of cuts right is super hard. You always end up with extra stock in the outlier sizes! I'll look again – just thought it was worth mentioning that I found that hard and/or I thought it was mainly men/unisex cuts only. Cheers!
Will Bodansky
Awesome product and great service Frank! Easy to use platform!
Waleed

Congrats Frank. Love the rebrand!

Pros:

Great range of products

Integrates with Shopify!

Love the designer tool

Cons:

none so far

Jessica Grace

Ink'A is StartUp Threads. I placed an order and it was never delivered. When I contacted support it went to Frank@startupthreads who then punted it to support@inka. They failed to deliver my shirts that I paid ~$900 a month before I asked for my money back.

Pros:

Easy to order

Cons:

Order never delivered, punted from startupthreads to inka, deceiving branding, poor communication, lack of organization