--- title: Free Shirt | daily.dev description: A casual conversation about the Hacktoberfest-style incentive of earning a free t-shirt by getting pull requests merged into open source repositories. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/free-shirt-wzxcuzp2w twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Free Shirt | daily.dev og:description: A casual conversation about the Hacktoberfest-style incentive of earning a free t-shirt by getting pull requests merged into open source repositories. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/free-shirt-wzxcuzp2w og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wZXcuZP2w.png og:image:alt: Free Shirt og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Free Shirt **[TJ DeVries](https://daily.dev/sources/teej_dv)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A casual conversation about the Hacktoberfest-style incentive of earning a free t-shirt by getting pull requests merged into open source repositories. The speakers joke about how people will spend disproportionate amounts of time (30 hours) to avoid paying $12 for a shirt, simply because the word 'free' is attached to it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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