AI TSHIRT DESIGN SUCCESS! 5 Obscure Niches for Huge Profits in 2023 with Print on Demand

[@jacisjake]

Just posted an ai assisted design this weekend using advice from your videos.

[@DetourShirts]

That is awesome!

[@linnson]

Wow thank you so much! I always learn so much from your videos ❤️❤️

[@DetourShirts]

You are so welcome!

[@JumpyWizard00]

This is such a great video! I've been trying my hand at POD shirts for two weeks now. No sales as of yet, but I'm building my portfolio up (nearly 40 designs) and this has been a huge help in giving me some more ideas! Thanks so much for taking the time to bring this content to us! You really are one of the most straight talking and down to earth POD youtubers I've seen so far. You don't sell the illusion of grandeur, you just show people what is in front of them. Keep making content Juna! :)

[@DetourShirts]

Thank you... I appreciate your comment

[@justcallmeneb8025]

Yeah I am really having fun creating with AI… having a great prompt format is the key. The prompt is always the key to saving time and getting the results you want.

[@DetourShirts]

Totally agree... good prompts make all the difference... thanks for sharing

[@Irland_mindset]

You are definitely the POD king. So good pod content I think Ai sales so well because it's standing out so much. And it's kinda new so the market is no so full.

[@DetourShirts]

I appreciate that!

[@jskitchen786]

my favorite channel

[@DetourShirts]

Thank you

[@karoel1]

Thank you for the great video and new inspiration ❤ More Niches would be great

[@DetourShirts]

You got it!

[@musicteacherengel]

Great stuff, Juna! Interesting to see that you're embracing the AI element. I don't really know your work, but I think of you as a traditional graphic illustrator, and it's interesting to see folks who can really draw give their thoughts about AI. I hope you'll always keep illustrating, but I also hope you find success with AI. Best wishes!

[@DetourShirts]

Cool, thanks! I like both.... I love drawing my own stuff but the things that AI can do are incredible

[@shiverwind4361]

love this thanks Juna, I'd also love to see more niches please, thank you.

[@DetourShirts]

You got it!

[@priyankabagade705]

Yes we want to know more nitches which are also Halloween theme

[@DetourShirts]

I'll see what I can find

[@costa1401]

Thanks for your great work

[@DetourShirts]

My pleasure

[@abhijit921]

The Riches are in the Niches... Thanks Juna...👍🏻

[@DetourShirts]

This is true

[@caseyparkman7550]

YES! More niches!

[@DetourShirts]

You got it

[@Shopgirl2000]

More niches yes pls

[@DetourShirts]

I'll see what I can do

[@mynameisgeiger]

What's up sir. Absolutely love your videos. Quick question for ya, you show all three designs with the shirts. You would create your design and post it on public tee, Amazon, etc. What provider do they use to make the shirts? When a order is placed do you need to front the money and wait to get reimbursement? Same for stickers, when you create a sticker who makes it? Printify? Thank you have a great day.

[@DetourShirts]

Great question... if you use Amazon Merch on Demand, RedBubble or TeePublic you do not need to pay for the shirt. They do it all. Same for stickers.... If you are using Etsy or Shopify then you would need to use something like Printify and use a credit card to pay for the order and then get reimbursed.

[@MissMolly3377]

I like it, for ideas, and I will use it, but I modify it, to add a human touch.

[@DetourShirts]

That's great

[@Sister0987]

Awesome!! Please more niches!

[@DetourShirts]

I'll work on it

[@agusandra3633]

Hi Juna, awesome you always inspire me in the world of design, if you don't mind, please help to make a tutorial on how to convert market trends to Leonardo AI prompt, so we can get a design that is close to what we want, Thank you

[@DetourShirts]

Great suggestion!

[@financipation]

Great stuff Juna I have quite a bit of AI generations and have been wondering how to get some sold. Could you do a video that shows how to take an AI image and clean up the edges or whatever to make it a better quality for print. is it distressed edges? How would black inside the image work out on a black shirt, etc.

[@DetourShirts]

Yes... great question.... I may have to do a video for that

[@ZerotoHeroic]

Thanks for the work Juna.

[@DetourShirts]

My pleasure!

[@AndreMoreira-eg4pl]

It takes a long time to start making sales in the POD market and even then, few sales are made in a very long wait

[@DetourShirts]

It does take a while...but if you can get the right designs in you could make a lot of sales

[@AndreMoreira-eg4pl]

@DetourShirts Thanks Juna!🙏👏

[@Apollo2715]

Great information! The issue I have with using AI is doing the background changes. I don't like uploading like they do in some of your examples. Could we have a video of how we can deal with the edges and stuff like that while using AI? I'd love to see it done in Affinity Designer V2 as that's what I use.

[@DetourShirts]

Good idea... Yes... I should do a full tutorial on that with these niches

[@Apollo2715]

Thank you! Always love watching your tutorials. I'm still trying to learn new skills and you have been a huge influence in my designs@@DetourShirts

[@cleonedwards9603]

@@DetourShirtsplease do 😅

[@theresadoran7382]

If you make a tshirt in light colors for dark tshirts should you make the same design in dark colors for light tshirts

[@DetourShirts]

I would

[@mohammedalkhars2902]

thank you Juna for your valuable video but i have question i am not from usa but i have question why taylor name design is so famous?

[@DetourShirts]

Taylor Swift

[@janetteb.2166]

Love your videos! Where do you get your graphics for your shirts? AI?

[@DetourShirts]

It's a mix.... sometimes I draw my own, sometimes I get graphics from Kittl, Canva, Creative Fabrica, Vexels and more.... sometimes I get it from AI sites like Leonardo and MidJourney.

[@janetteb.6636]

I would love to start doing this but my drawing skills aren’t great. I have Canva Pro but I was under the impression that you can’t use their graphics or anything on there for a POD business.

[@RahulMishra-eg3kd]

Hi juna, Does Amazon merch on demand deliver Products out of United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Canada. ??????????

[@DetourShirts]

I believe so

[@Jaden_856]

Hi ok so is this monthly amazon pays them or how does this works jow much do they keep ? Thank u

[@DetourShirts]

It depends on the product and the price set.... but for example a standard shirt selling at $19.99 will make $4.89 per sale for the POD seller..... that's the sellers cut and Amazon keeps the rest.

[@marylynngranado7006]

What do you mean...when you say a i ? Is that a design program for DTF files

[@DetourShirts]

Yes... text to image AI.... lots of options out there.... MidJourney, Leonardo, ChatGPT and many more

[@mohamedelamineamine8]

I'm spending hours to enhance ai designs to make it good looking design but those people upload it like that should I do the same?

[@DetourShirts]

Know your audience..... It really depends.... I would experiment and see what works

[@dawsonhunt]

Given that these were uploaded recently and that these seem to be somewhat saturated niches, do you suspect most of the sales are organic or through ads?

[@DetourShirts]

Great question.... It could be with ads... but I'm guessing not all of them

[@dawsonhunt]

Thanks for the reply! Uploading a few designs now inspired by some of these, with a few creative twists :)@@DetourShirts

[@PesarWealthy]

Do you think it is appropriate and economical to start selling POD on Instagram instead of Etsy and so on?

[@DetourShirts]

If you can start selling on Instagram I don't think it's a bad thing.... the problem is most people don't go to instagram to buy stuff they do go to Etsy to buy stuff.... people are going to IG to learn or be entertained.

[@PesarWealthy]

@@DetourShirts yeah, But because I live in Iran, I can't sell directly on Etsy, and I need a visa card and PayPal as an intermediary, but they said I must sell on Instagram first and get 300 followers to help me operate on Etsy. Do you know if it is possible to use BitPay or something like that on Etsy?

[@annewerner1298]

Thanks Juna for another informative video What AI Tool do you recommend??

[@DetourShirts]

MidJourney is great but it cost $10 a month... if you are looking for something free then I would pick Leonardo

[@JatiKalinggaPraja]

Van gogh is a dutch painter right? Can we use his style?

[@DetourShirts]

It's strange but yes I believe it's safe as long as it's a style not his actual work

[@tamaramilicevic3180]

Even actual work can be used. By current laws everything created before January 1927 is public domain, artist intellectual property has expired. But there is a twist. Actual paintings are usually held in museums and digital versions are made by them, so they have copyrights. You just need to be careful to use material from museums that give it for free, and there are plenty actually. Only thing prohibited is to add real artist signature, as that is percevied as presenting yourself as the actual artist. For example, you put Starry night on a t shirt and add original Van Gogh signature across it. That's forbidden, but you can write Van Gogh on it in some random font. He's dead for centuries now, so there's no attack on his personality. On the other very important note, example Andy Warhol. He isn't in the public domain. Nor his name, nor his artwork. To just write Andy Warhol on merch it will be needed a lot more years to come, generally speaking at least 70 years after artist has passed. Needed time differs between countries. Plus, there are some legal quirkes as always. I've read somewhere that Italy prohibited, as they noted, "derogatory" presentations of Da Vinci's work. So if you are in Italy, and let's say putting a beer can on Vetruvian man to use it as yours cafe bar logo, you should think twice about it. As a conclusion, if you are in doubt don't use it. Artist name (in the video mentioned Taylor Swift), his art style, signature for whatever reason, movie quotes( they are intellectual property of screen writers), song lyrics (same as movies), pictures of famous people (you need a persons permission to use it legally). Irony at its finest, but don't rely on some random person's comment on the internet when it comes to legal dilemma.

[@tamaramilicevic3180]

I'm really sorry for the length of this. xD I kept seeing these kind of comments so I just pour it all out in here. And sorry for the English too, I'm not native.

[@Saurav-oi3ui]

Hey juna is selling on Amazon is totally free?

[@DetourShirts]

Yes.... if you can get in.... you will have to apply first

[@robo3383]

Thanks Juna, another informative video. Do you have a video that shows how you did the research for these niches? There are videos out there for Merch Informer, Podcs, Pretty Merch, etc. but they seem to only show what's trending now. You were able to look at the post date, sales figures, etc. Is this a Pretty Merch Pro function or am I just not using the other tools correctly ya think?

[@DetourShirts]

It's a pretty merch function but all I really did was brainstorm on different niches and then check the results.... most AI art is around nature or animals

[@robo3383]

Thanks Juna I appreciate the reply.@@DetourShirts

[@mperkins3230]

So I haven't been able to find anything that says Pretty Merch has made any changes to the BSR calculation due to the fact that now we have the "Climate Pledge Friendly" group which is much smaller than the overall "Merch" group so the BSR would not be correct if they have not corrected for that. I am not comfortable going with the pretty merch BSRs they show on those designs until I find out if they have factored that in. Any word on that on your end? I am also wondering how this works since it is obvious that Amazon Merch is pushing "Climate Friendly" to the top of search results on anything you type in.

[@DetourShirts]

The BSRs are much lower than before because we are in a different category now so we just need to adjust to that. Anything under 10,000 is pretty good

[@jilll5711]

Thanks Juna! Is there any chance that any of these woth high sales are actually mass-purchased by a single buyer? Thus skewing the market research? I was just thinking about how I would get out of the lower tiers of Amazon Merch and it seems like getting a single buyer to buy a bunch of one product would be a good way to do that, but of course I have no idea how to make that happen anyways....

[@DetourShirts]

I guess there is a chance of that happening... you could buy a bunch yourself and get a better BSR in the process

[@nikkilesley2525]

Is the art industry gone now? No one I know that is an actual artist trusts AI for design because people steal art then use it to make artificial design.

[@DetourShirts]

I don't think the art industry is gone now....I think there is room for both.... I don't think it will take over the platform but there are niches that work better than others.

[@jayta906]

Stable diffusion has several lawsuits running against it for this reason

[@lindaw70]

I would think that AI could make original art work more valuable.

[@GeoffreyOak]

You’d be more surprised whats done with AI. Adobe just introduced Firefly incorporated into Illustrator. They have text to vector ai now

[@DetourShirts]

Yup! The AI revolution is just starting

[@assortedbibssundayfootball1312]

The pronunciation of niche sounds weird. The US English makes it sound less sophisticated. The origins are French: kzbin.info/www/bejne/naTQdquCgbmaaJY so it should sound more like knee-shh, not nitch. Anyway, moving on, the AI designs have not quite taken off as yet and many people have not even heard of Chat-GPT. However, 6 months from now, AI designs will dominate the t-shirt landscape, because the tools are getting better and better. Your selection was very insightful Juno. Thanks for sharing.

[@DetourShirts]

I agree with you on the niche thing.... time will tell on the Ai prediction... it definitely is getting easier

[@smoki99able]

The Number of sales is maybe not true, because the climate pledge ranking messing Up this numbers...

[@DetourShirts]

Really? I thought the total sales is true but the average per month sales wasn't.... but you could be right

[@MissMolly3377]

You’re right, you can tell when an AI designs it. I love AI, but I think it all looks the same and, a lot of it, looks lifeless and soulless. I don’t think everyone is going to have massive success, with purely AI designs, some will, yes, but not everyone. I think the trick, to it, is to modify it with a human touch. I know some customers are against AI art, on some platforms, and don’t want to buy it, because they feel it is working against artists. As an artist, I embrace AI, whether it is for ideas or to modify it, I like using it. Ai certainly is getting better and better, and so quickly, from just a year ago.

[@DetourShirts]

Great comment... thank you

[@Zolipants]

Agree a lot, the problem I see as a fellow artist is that AI is used as a designer tool recently took the most enjoyable fun from the designing process the "Designing itself" I believe AI should stay as an ideator tool instead of a full process tool. Ai can give me an idea but I want to create it:D

[@avanjob205]

good stuff :D

[@DetourShirts]

Glad you enjoyed

[@felixthecat9347]

Hey Juna, thanks for all the videos. So here is a question: if you were to start the T-shirt POD business today, what apps and websites would you subscribe to? For example, for doing research, would you choose Everbee over ERank?

[@DetourShirts]

I dont' know Etsy that well so if were to do Etsy probably Everbee.... but if I were to start a POD business I wouldn't start with Etsy I would start with Amazon and try to get in.... If I couldn't get in on Amazon then TeePublic and RedBubble and I would just research hard on what sells well on those... I would start with the one that is giving me the most sales and keep adding designs and learn what works.

[@felixthecat9347]

@@DetourShirts Thanks much!

[@felixthecat9347]

@@DetourShirts Juna, I thought getting into Amazon was extremely difficult and that you needed a store or a solid track record?

[@terencegibbins3894]

Wonderfully informative video for which I am truly grateful as I am just starting up with print on demand, having only got 62 designs uploaded so far to teepublic. Going off in a tangent to everything here:- I just wondered to what extent it helps the potential artist to gain credibility and of course actual sales, if they (the artist) produces KZbin tutorials and presentations like you do and so many other artists appear to do. Obviously it helps, as potential buyers can see you are a real person and therefore will have confidence in your products. To what extent would it help my potential sales if I was to do this aswell? My problem is fitting homelife family and other work commitments in and creating enough time to devote to video presentations. Is it worth my doing? Or can I get reasonable sales by just uploading my designs and promoting via my social media alone?

[@DetourShirts]

Actually my KZbin channel doesn't really help my t-shirt sales. I'm just doing it to help the community. I guess it could if I put links to the shirts I've created but I haven't been doing that.

[@terencegibbins3894]

@@DetourShirts Many thanks for the reply, very much appreciated:) I will continue and hope and in a sense plan for the best outcome by adding to my designs and explore new and appropriate niches:)