Horace Gipson
Founder
Building Locker Loot to put student designs in the hallway and pay the kids who make them. Talks to every school personally.
About
Built for hallways.
Made for students.
School pride doesn't have to look like a clipart pep rally. We started Locker Loot because the merch students actually want is the merch they make themselves — and there was no way to put it where they live: the locker, the lunch line, the hallway.
Score the drop. That's the whole pitch.
Mission
Pay students for their work.
Students design. The school votes. The machine dispenses the winners. Designers earn royalties. Schools earn 30%. Nobody runs an order form, carries inventory, or runs a fundraiser. Everyone else gets out of the way.
Team
Who's behind it.
Andre Darby
Co-Founder & CTO
Builds the app, the dashboard, and the hardware integration. Makes sure the machine restocks and the votes count.
The story
Why we built this.
School spirit gear, for most schools, is a stack of identical T-shirts ordered from a catalog. Students don't wear it. It sits in the office. The school orders less next year. Repeat until the budget for it disappears.
Meanwhile every student in the building is sketching, posting, designing — making things they actually want to wear. None of it gets paid for. None of it gets made. None of it ends up in the hallway.
Locker Loot fixes the asymmetry. Students design. The school votes. A machine in the hallway dispenses the winners. The kids who made it earn a cut. The school earns a cut. Nobody runs an order form or carries inventory.
That's the whole thing. We build the hardware, the app, and the fulfillment so any school can run it without lifting a finger. School pride becomes something students wear because they made it — not because someone made them buy it.
