Rails Vinyl Sticker

[Brian Beers]

My cousin and I are starting a little business selling vinyl stickers.
They can easily be applied to any flat surface and are easy to remove
without leaving *any* residue. Our initial designs are meant to be
applied to Mac Laptops and incorporate the Apple logo somehow. Here
are the first ones we've made: http://www.etsy.com/shop/MacSlaps

Here is a mock-up of the Rails logo: http://www478.pair.com/bbeers/rails.png

The stickers can also be easily applied to a car/truck window:
http://www478.pair.com/bbeers/Phillies_Decals.jpg

Most of the stickers go for around $10 each. We also can do custom
designs with your business name, slogan, or almost anything else.

Let me know what you guys think. I would love to hear any suggestions
people have. Does anyone know what I have to do in order to license
the Rails logo so I can sell it commercially? I found this site:
http://www.opensource.org/trademark

Thanks, Brian

[Mat Schaffer]

Those are pretty hot. I may just sport one :)

I did a little reading around (mainly from http://www.rubyinside.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-says-no-to-use-of-rails-logo-567.html
) and I doubt selling some decals would be a big deal. Judging from
DHH's comments he's mainly trying to avoid people using the rails logo
to promote books or products unless he's willing to promote the item.
If you tried to market yourself as "the official retailer of rails
decals" that would probably be another story.

Of course, I Am Not A Lawyer.
-Mat

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[Aaron Feng]

Brian,

They look really good.

> We also can do custom
> designs with your business name, slogan, or almost anything else.

How much is a custom vinyl sticker?

Aaron

[Brian Beers]

Aaron - it all depends on the design complexity and how many you want -- we can print just one or many. Please email me at brian....@gmail.com with your idea/logo and I can give you a quote. Our prices are very reasonable.

Matt - thanks for the link. We definitely aren't trying to be the "official" anything. I'll shoot an email over to the rails guys and see if I can get some feedback. If all goes well I'm going to look into advertising on RailsCasts and similar rails sites.

-- Brian