Robert Ham
Film director
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Jun 23, 2026
The $10M Hat Business Built on Custom Software
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1:09David HeacockHOST
But why don't you tell us at a high level, introduce yourself and your business?

Robert HamGUEST
I basically started the custom headwear business HatLaunch.com in my basement in 2018.

Robert HamGUEST
Um, started life as a software engineer, and I wanted to make money, more money on the side to afford cars, 'cause that's what I do.

Robert HamGUEST
And I, before starting Hat Launch myself, I would just find, like, uh, marketing agencies or agencies in the St. Louis area that had clients that needed, like, front-end dev work or needed some development work on the side where I would take on, like, a side project and do, like, a front-end website build-out for a marketing agency and for, like, a few grand.

Robert HamGUEST
And I would do that, um, as much as I could, and I was like, "You know what? You know, I, I could build an e-commerce site.

Robert HamGUEST
I wanna build something for myself." And for me, I, I love cars and I know the market of people that like cars, so, like, to first test out selling things to car people, I, uh, I found a website called Teespring where you could take a graph- You could create a graphic, put it on a shirt-
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