# Supabase Swag Store

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Rory Wilding · Jul 30, 2021

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase has officially launched the Supabase Swag Store to meet ongoing community demand for branded merchandise. The company built the online storefront using Shopify to go live quickly during launch week rather than dogfooding internal systems for e-commerce. Gifting remains the primary goal of the swag program, prioritizing contributors who create content, report bugs, answer community questions, or submit pull requests. All items are designed, packed, and dispatched directly by the internal team from Singapore in limited production batches of around one hundred items per run. Due to hands-on fulfillment and ongoing international shipping disruptions, inventory is scarce, and some small-batch designs will remain permanently limited editions.

## Context

Frequent user requests prompted Supabase to establish a way for community members to obtain branded merchandise, while the team sought to maintain direct oversight over swag production and distribution.

## Approach / What changed

Supabase launched an e-commerce store built on Shopify during launch week, managing product design, batch production runs of approximately 100 units, and packaging and shipping from Singapore in-house.

## Takeaways

- Supabase prioritizes inventory for gifting to developers who write content, report bugs, answer community questions, or contribute pull requests.
- The team chose Shopify to build and launch the store rapidly for launch week instead of dogfooding an e-commerce platform.
- Merchandise is produced in small batches of around 100 shirts and dispatched directly from Singapore, with some runs functioning as limited editions.

**Tags:** [Developer Experience](https://yomu.fyi/topic/developer-experience), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source)

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