Cameesa Brings You Crowdsourced and Crowdfunded T-Shirts

The fact that I haven’t posted about this site yet shows how negligent I have been with this blog. Not too long ago, a friend of mine and a few of his buddies launched a site called Cameesa. Cameesa could be best described as Fundable meets Threadless. It works as follows (I hope they won’t mind me stealing this graphic from their site):

While the site hasn’t taken off yet, they have managed to produce one completely crowdfunded shirt and a couple others are real close (the Day of Bad Rain and Skulls are Still Kool! are 90% funded) and the number of good designs continues to increase. Each week there seems to be a couple more shirts added to the list of production candidates that are definitely worthy to wear. Their community also appears to be growing at a healthy rate with lengthy threads attached to many of the designs.

While I don’t see Cameesa threatening Threadless anytime soon, I think the fact that they have produced one T-shirt and are on the verge of a few more shows that their model could work if they are able to sustain growth. It may also signal that the North American market may be ready to see more commercial crowdfunding applications and perhaps that is the most exciting part of Cameesa, by building this site, they have created a crowdfunding platform that could be leveraged across multiple verticals. While I do like Fundable, I think the first commercial crowdfunding application to gain mainstream traction will be one that will be focused on a specific vertical or function, allowing for a more straightforward user experience. Whether or not Cameesa, strikes it big, I am expecting exciting things from the team behind it in the coming months (you can follow their adventures on their blog).