Revolutionize T-Shirt Design with Ideogram AI Using Amazon Research (Free)

About this video

The creator demonstrates a workflow for creating t-shirt designs by researching what is already selling on Amazon and then generating new, original variations in ideogram.ai. He starts from Amazon Hot New Releases, noting that Best Sellers Rank (BSR) populates once a product makes sales and that a lower BSR means more sales per day, and he saves example images — a cartoon banana with a baseball, an American bald eagle with fighter jets, and a Fourth of July hot dog (‘glizzies’) design. In Ideogram (he says he uses the Plus version and is unsure if this works on the free version), he uploads a saved image, uses Remix so Ideogram auto-creates a prompt from it, adjusts image weight, edits out unwanted prompt wording such as references to a frame or t-shirt mockup so the result is just the design, and generates repeatedly, remixing or retrying until a clean result appears. He repeats the process by describing an image instead of uploading it, and by re-uploading a liked generation to iterate further. He also shows Merch Informer’s product research / Merch Hunter tool to find low-competition niches, filtering out brands and by review count, and checking a listing’s all-time sales / BSR history to distinguish evergreen demand from a seasonal spike, citing a fighter-jet / American flag design that has sold since the prior year. He notes generated images download at about 1024 by 1024 and can be upscaled, backgrounds must be removed with an editor such as Photopea or Canva before print-on-demand upload, spelling errors from the AI need fixing, and trademark/copyright checks are still required.

Key takeaways

• Research Amazon Hot New Releases first: lower BSR means more daily sales, so use proven sellers as inspiration rather than starting from a blank page.
• In Ideogram, upload a reference image and use Remix to auto-generate a prompt, then edit out frame/mockup wording and adjust image weight to get a clean standalone design.
• Iterate — remix, retry, and re-upload liked generations multiple times until the design is clean; expect occasional weird details and AI spelling errors that need editing.
• Use Merch Informer / Merch Hunter with brand exclusion and review filters, and check all-time sales and BSR history to find low-competition, evergreen niches.
• Finish the file properly: upscale the roughly 1024 x 1024 download if needed, remove the background before uploading to print-on-demand, and always check trademarks and copyrights.

Episode details: published June 29, 2024 · 16:03 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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