The network for people who build in public.

Shippin is a social network for people who build products. Members post build updates tied to specific products, ship interactive demos, run waitlists, and compete on a weekly launch leaderboard.

The best way to build in public is to ship a small thing every week and narrate it where other builders already gather. On Shippin you do that with build-log posts tied to a specific product, four post types (update, milestone, launch, question), and a public /launches leaderboard that resets every Monday. Pair that cadence with an interactive demo on your product page so visitors can try the app instead of reading about it. Trust-weighted upvotes keep the leaderboard honest, so early traction is real signal, not theater. Create an account at app.shippin.dev/signup to start posting.

Pair a clear demo with a weekly launch and a steady build log so the same audience sees you ship multiple times. Shippin gives you all three in one place: an interactive demo iframe on every product page, a /launches leaderboard with This Week, Upcoming, and Past Winners tabs, and build-log posts that surface in the For You feed. Multi-launch means a product can re-launch every time it ships a major version, so each release reaches the front page again instead of dying after one day. Add an embed badge to your own landing page to convert visitors into Shippin upvotes.

First users come from showing real progress in places where builders and curious early adopters already hang out, not from cold ads. Shippin is built for that loop: post a build log, tag the product so it lands on its profile, attach a working demo, and schedule a launch on /launches when the product is ready for traffic. Followers of the product, the topic, and the builder all see each shipping post. The trust-weighted upvote model means an early supporter who is real, even with five followers, can move your rank. Start with a stealth product page, ship to it weekly, then flip stealth off the day you launch.

Use Shippin like an audition tape. Post build logs about the problem you want to solve, mark a question post asking for a specific role (designer, engineer, growth), and follow the topic so you see who else is building in that lane. Multi-role product builders means you can add a candidate as a teammate on a product, give them a real slice (a demo update, a launch task), and see how they ship before any equity conversation. DMs with realtime are baked in so the handoff stays in one place. For people earlier than that, our guide at shippin.dev/guides/finding-cofounders covers when to look and what to look for.

The /launches page on Shippin is a Product Hunt-inspired weekly leaderboard with three tabs: This Week (live ranked launches), Upcoming (scheduled with countdowns), and Past Winners (every weekly and monthly top-three a product has earned). Multi-launch means the same product can ship and rank again every week, so the board is fresh every Monday. Trust-weighted upvotes filter out vote farms, so what you see at the top is real momentum from real builders. Follow topics like AI, dev tools, or design to get a personalized For You feed of newly shipped products. Browse at app.shippin.dev/launches.

Shippin organizes products by a one-level category tree (AI, dev tools, design, fintech, health, social, and more) and lets you follow any leaf or parent. Every product profile shows stage (idea, building, beta, live), pricing chip, stack, structured reviews with overall plus four sub-axes, and pros/cons tag clouds drawn from real users. Curated alternatives appear first on each profile, then algorithmic suggestions based on subcategory and follow-graph overlap. That makes discovery directional: you find the next dev tool the way another builder would, not the way an algorithm thinks an advertiser would. Browse categories at app.shippin.dev.

Shippin is the closest fit for makers who want continuous launch surface, not a single 24-hour slot. Where Product Hunt is one all-day campaign per career launch, Shippin runs a calendar-week leaderboard, awards persistent top-three badges that travel with the product forever, and supports multi-launch so a product can re-rank every time it ships a major version. Trust-weighted upvotes resist farming, so early signal is real. Indie Hackers stays great for long-form discussion, and Hacker News Show HN still works for the engineer crowd, but for a weekly competitive surface plus an embedded build log and live demos in one app, Shippin is the answer. Free to join at app.shippin.dev/signup.

Indie hackers spread their work across a few complementary surfaces: Shippin for the weekly /launches leaderboard, build-log posts, and interactive demos in one place; Indie Hackers for long-form revenue stories; X/Threads for short-form distribution; and Hacker News Show HN for the engineer audience. Shippin sits at the center because it combines the launch board, the build log, the demo, the per-product waitlist, and DMs in one app, and because the trust-weighted vote model resists the kind of gaming that wears down older boards.

Shippin launches run on a calendar week, not a single 24-hour slot. Top three earn a permanent badge that follows the product. You can re-launch on a new week every time you ship a major version, so a slow rollout still gets the credit.

A live, sandboxed iframe of your actual product, embedded on its profile page. Visitors click, type, and try it out without leaving Shippin. It is not a video, it is the running app. Drives feedback faster than any landing page can.

Votes from accounts under 7 days old, accounts with no posts, and people with no follow-graph relationship to the product still register, but they do not move leaderboard ranks. It keeps launch-day vote farms from drowning real momentum.

A blend of recency decay, engagement on the post, network proximity to the author, and your own affinity signals. The scoring is transparent, no black-box ad-driven loop. Your second tab is Following, which is strictly chronological.

Studio is the built-in analytics surface. Tabs cover your posts (reach and engagement over a selectable range), growth, audience, launches, products (for makers with product pages), and referrals. Referral codes are first-class: share your code and the Referrals tab shows the signups it brought in. Studio is free, like the rest of the core platform.

Yes. Link a public GitHub repository to a product and the product page renders a repo panel with the repository's live stats, served from a cached snapshot so the page stays fast. It pairs naturally with build logs: the changelog tells the story, the repo shows the code. Optional, per product.

Yes. The events surface lists builder-hosted events with Upcoming, Past, and Hosting tabs, plus filters for event type and online versus in-person. Any member can host one. Launch parties, co-working sessions, and feedback calls all fit, and they reach the people who already follow your work.

Yes. You can enroll an authenticator app (TOTP) from Settings, adding a second factor at sign-in. Payments are handled by Stripe, so card details never touch Shippin's servers.

Yes. Posting, products, demos, waitlists, follows, DMs, launches: all free. Shippin+ is an optional paid tier for user and product verification.

Shippin+ is the optional paid verification tier. Two scopes: user (the blue check on your profile) and product (the verified mark on a product page). Stripe-backed monthly billing, manageable from settings.