The storefront is genuinely buildable — this register proves that repeatedly. Physical manufacturing, printing, and shipping actual garments is not, and no amount of good code changes that.
Just pay
Effort: not worth startingRunning cost: $0/mo to start
Why CanICodeThis says Just pay
A product catalog with mockup images and a Stripe checkout shares this register's e-commerce build spec
Order tracking (received, processing, shipped) is ordinary CRUD
For selling digital products with no physical fulfillment, a much simpler build covers real needs
The parts that'll cause problems
Actually printing on garments and shipping them worldwide is manufacturing and logistics infrastructure, categorically outside a software build
Print quality, garment sourcing, and fulfillment speed are operational problems, not code problems
Existing print-on-demand APIs exist specifically because this is genuinely hard infrastructure to run yourself
How I'd build this
frontend
Next.js
payments
Stripe
hosting
Vercel / Cloudflare Pages
MVP scope
A product catalog with mockup images and Stripe checkout
Order tracking status
Integrate an existing print-on-demand API for fulfillment
Postpone to v2
Multiple fulfillment partner options
Custom packaging inserts
Bulk/wholesale ordering
What it actually costs to build
AI agent — with a subscription (Claude Pro/Max, Cursor, etc.)
$0 marginal
AI agent — pay-per-use API, no subscription
$86–$172 one-time
Hosting, once it's running
$0/mo (free tier)
Domain name, if you want your own
~$12/yr
Existing tools solving a similar problem typically run $39–$39/mo — see how they compare below.
The build prompt
Don't try to build print-on-demand manufacturing — build the storefront using this register's own e-commerce build spec:
1. A product catalog with mockup images and Stripe Checkout — standard e-commerce CRUD.
2. An orders table tracking status (received, processing, shipped).
3. When an order comes in, call an existing print-on-demand provider's API to actually produce and ship the item — you're integrating a fulfillment partner, not replacing one.
That's a real, working store with genuine fulfillment. Out of scope: multiple fulfillment partner options, which multiplies integration work per provider, and custom packaging inserts, real, separate coordination with whichever print partner you use, outside what an API integration controls.