Third Superstar Sale business: print-on-demand t-shirts, hoodies, and stickers on the Gotfunny case-study model — organic TikTok-first distribution, comment-driven design, POD fulfillment. The CRM holds the pipeline (designs → SKUs → ingest API); the design factory and miner come next. Same method-factory pattern: the source video's claims were receipt-checked before anything was built on them.
CRM tracking backbone built + verified (PR #5)Nightly trend miner live — cron 20:30 → CRM ingest (PR #8)No store yet — Printful/Shopify accounts pending
Foundation case study: Gotfunny (novelty/graphic t-shirts, founder Bryson) — ex-real-estate marketing, graphic-design background. Self-reported: $800K sales year one (2022), $1.1M in 2023; ~$0 startup via Shopify + Printful; ~800 orders overnight from a pre-launch TikTok; one design sold ~2,000 shirts off a 7M-view Reel; hoodies run 60–70% margin, stickers are thin-margin top-of-funnel. Research verdict: Worth Trying 7.5/10 — the playbook is real, but every revenue figure is self-reported with zero on-screen proof, and "$0 startup" omits years of prior design skill + audience. Treat the headline numbers as survivorship-flavored.
| Discord channel | #pod (Super Star Sale guild) |
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| Source | UpFlip: "He Almost Started Dropshipping… Then Found This" — video 14, playlist research 2026-09-27 (docs/research/ in the superstarsale repo) |
| Rail | Trend miner → scored design briefs → Mike picks winners → design gen + mockups → auto-listing (Printful) → organic TikTok/Reels content → kill/scale loop tracked in the CRM |
| Money rail | Shopify + Printful POD (Mike-only: accounts, payouts, tax) — organic content first per the case data; Meta ads stay PAUSED unless organic proves the niche |
| Owner agents | superstarsaledev + superstarsalemarketing |
POST /api/pod/ideas in the CRM (token-gated, title-deduped). Ideas land as status new./pod dashboard groups designs by status (new → approved → designed → listed → killed/scaled); approval is the human taste gate in the loop.designed. (Not built yet — next build after the miner.)podProducts rows carry platform, price/cost, status draft/live/paused.podProducts; dead SKUs → killed, proven ones → scaled and re-styled.| Automates well | Does not automate |
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| Trend/niche mining (same pattern as the daily research cron) | The face. "Gotfunny and Bryson are one" — the zero-cost content engine was face-on-camera comment replies; the candor is the ad |
| Design generation + mockups (batch per niche) | The viral moment. ~800 overnight orders was one TikTok hitting pre-launch — automation multiplies at-bats, it doesn't make an at-bat hit |
| Listings (Printful API push, auto-written titles/tags) | Human taste on which designs ship |
| Kill/scale loop (analytics cron on live SKU data) | Payouts, tax, account ownership (Mike-only) |
| Thing | Value |
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| CRM tracking (built) | microspaces/crm PR #5 — podDesigns + podProducts tables, generic CRUD via /api/[resource], POST /api/pod/ideas ingest (shared-secret POD_INGEST_TOKEN, title dedupe), /pod dashboard gated to the superstarsale tenant. Verified: tsc clean, build passing, preview 200. |
| Trend miner (built 2026-10-18) | Nightly cron 20:30: Google-suggest + YouTube sweep → scored design briefs → POST /api/pod/ideas (title-deduped). TikTok is not scrapeable headless — Google-suggest is the primary demand signal, YouTube view counts corroborate (≥200-view floor). First run inserted 3 briefs; Mike reviews in /pod |
| Design factory (planned) | Batch image-gen + mockups per approved brief |
| Content | Organic TikTok/IG Reels; Remotion ad templates exist as backup creative — organic first per the case data |
| Source research | playlist-research_2026-09-27, video 14 in microspaces/superstarsale |
youtube idea source type added to the CRM (PR #8, convex + Vercel deployed, verified end-to-end), miner script sweeps Google-suggest + YouTube nightly (cron 20:30 → digest in #pod), first 3 briefs inserted. Demo/seed rows cleared from /pod during verification. Ingest currently OPEN — POD_INGEST_TOKEN not set in Vercel (no Vercel token on this machine; token value staged at profiles/dev/pod/ingest_token, miner picks it up automatically once set).POD_INGEST_TOKEN in Vercel to gate the ingest, then Mike's Printful/Shopify/TikTok accounts — nothing can sell until those exist.Live roadmap, managed as GitHub issues (superstarsale issues). Add or close items on GitHub — ☑ = done, close as “not planned” to remove.