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Open source merch · vol. 001

Wear the badger.

Our badger tee showed up at AI Engineer in San Francisco and did half a million views in a day. Then the internet started reselling it. So we open-sourced it :)

The drop

One shirt. Zero dollars.

The viral badger tee, open-sourced. 100 of them, free, while they last.

The Ratel Tee, back, printed "Told my memory.md about you"
Free · open source

The Ratel Tee

Heavyweight cotton · unisex fit

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Vol. 002

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Vol. 003

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How it started

The tee that went viral.

Spotted at AI Engineer in San Francisco. Half a million views in a day. Then the internet tried to sell it back to you, so we're giving ours away instead.

Tweet by María Benavente showing the Ratel badger tee at a conference, captioned “… and they say romance is dead.” (511.6K views)
511.6K views in a day on X.@merybenavente
r/ClaudeAI Reddit post titled “Legend Spotted” showing the Ratel badger tee
“Legend spotted” on r/ClaudeAI.r/ClaudeAI
Google results full of third-party stores reselling the “Told my memory.md about you” shirt
…then everyone started selling it. So we made ours free.Google
A knockoff store product page for the shirt on zerelam.com, styled as a generic dropship listing with zero reviews
Another storefront, same shirt, zero reviews.zerelam.com
A reseller's tweet advertising a knockoff “Told my memory.md about you” t-shirt with their own watermark
A reseller's own ad for the knockoff.@maxxtees
A knockoff store product page for the shirt, priced at $19.49 with fake urgency badges claiming 193 items sold in the last 3 minutes
$19.49. “193 sold in the last 3 minutes.” Sure.needsshirt.com