Your Meetings Are Now Merchandise

We make a desktop app that puts your messages in one window. The whole point is to make a noisy day a little quieter.

So naturally, the first physical thing we have ever sold is a small collection of shirts, caps, and mugs about how loud it still gets.

The store lives at merch.meetfranz.com. One consistent grievance: the modern workday is mostly notifications. If we cannot fix all of it from inside the app, you may as well wear the receipts.

Shirts for people who already typed the apology

For the part of your week where you become a courier of bad news you did not write — the calendar invite that should have been a sentence, the spec change you forward at 4:47pm on a Friday.

From $30.00 USD

That Could Have Been an Email

A wearable receipt for the 47 minutes you'll never get back.

The meeting had a slide deck. The deck had three slides. Two were the agenda. This shirt is for everyone who turned their camera off, then their brain off, before realizing the host had also stepped away from theirs. ~159g (5.6oz) cotton, S–4XL.

For people who unmute, say one good thing, and mute again.

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Do Not Kill the Messenger

Some of us just deliver the bad news. We don't write it.

The shirt for the project manager forwarding the spec change at 4:47pm on Friday, the team lead relaying the calendar move, the friend telling the group chat the brunch place is closed. ~159g (5.6oz) cotton, S–4XL. Bears the message, not the fault.

For people whose inboxes are 60% apologies they didn't write.

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Caps for the moment your phone vibrates and you flinch

About that small involuntary movement everyone now does when a notification arrives. The 99+ snapback is exactly what it looks like. The 67+ is on purpose obscure: if you know what it means, you are too old, and your kid will pretend not to know you at school pickup.

From $35.00 USD

67+ Notifications – Embarrassing Parent Starter Kit

If you know what 67 means, you are too old.

Embroidered cap. The 67 is a quiet reference to the 6-7 meme your kid laughed at last week and refused to explain. They're right not to explain it. They will pretend they don't know you when you wear it to school pickup. That's the joy of the gift. One size, Black or Stone.

For caregivers who refuse to age gracefully out of internet culture.

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Notificiation Anxiety Snapback

The little red bubble that ruined your nervous system, now embroidered above your face.         

Flat brim, structured 6-panel, snap closure — the classic shape, weaponized with the symbol every messaging app uses to make you flinch. It's 99+. It's always 99+. At least on the hat, it can't grow.

For people whose lock screen is a crime scene.  

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Mugs for the meeting you cannot reschedule

Some meetings are real. Some are recurring. Both are easier to attend with one heavy ceramic object in your hand.

From $8.95 USD

That Could Have Been an Email Mug

Sip while reflecting on what could have been.

You enter the meeting room. You set the mug down. Six people read the side of the mug. The host pauses. Nothing gets reformed but at least it gets quieter. 325ml (11oz) ceramic, white, microwave- and dishwasher-safe. Holds approximately one passive-aggression's worth of coffee.

For people whose calendar mocks are mostly defensive.

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Do Not Kill the Messenger Mug

For the morning Slack message you have to send.

Hold this mug while you draft the message announcing the meeting change. The ceramic is heavy enough (325ml / 11oz) to anchor your hands, which is mostly what they need at 9:14am. Microwave-safe. Dishwasher-safe. Boundary-safe — when in hand, indicates you have not yet had enough caffeine to be useful.

For desks that need a small, ceramic exoskeleton to function before 10am.

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There are a few more pieces in the store — stickers, a couple of greeting cards, the occasional logo shirt for people who like their merch quiet. Have a look around.

Why we did this

Ten years into Franz, we wanted to make something a person could hold. The app does what it is supposed to: fewer windows, fewer flinches, calmer days. Software is a feeling though, and occasionally a feeling wants to be a cotton garment.

If a coworker laughs at the shirt, that is a tiny win for our side of the conversation. The store is live, ships globally, and the margins go back into Franz.