Apt-get Shirt

Discontinued

Last updated 2026-03-15 · Update this page

Historical record. This platform is discontinued and should not be treated as an active option.

Apt-get Shirt was a simple merchandise experiment: buy a project-themed shirt and part of the purchase price would be sent to the related open source project. The storefront now appears inactive, but it remains a useful historical example of merchandise as a lightweight community-support mechanism.

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Goal: Revenue. Model: Content. Status: Historical.

Should you use this?

Best for: Maintainers with teachable expertise and an audience for books, courses, or paid updates.
Not ideal for: Projects whose users do not want educational or creator-style products.
Why choose it: Apt-get Shirt sold project-themed merchandise and donated part of each sale to the represented open source project.
Watch out for: Content revenue depends on distribution and consistent publishing.
Setup effort: Review setup requirements
Fees: Historical community references described part of each sale, often cited as roughly half of proceeds, being donated to the represented project.
Last verified: 2026-03-15
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Model Content

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OSS-specific

Official website	Visit official website
Verification	Unverified
Organization	Corporation
Open source status	Closed source
Platform technology	Closed source ecommerce storefront
Monetization model	Merchandise sales with revenue sharing
Payment methods	PayPal and card checkout
Platform fees	Historical community references described part of each sale, often cited as roughly half of proceeds, being donated to the represented project.
User activity	The original store could not be validated during this audit. Surviving references describe Apt-get Shirt as a small historical merchandise-based support model for OSS projects.