Ship by Product Hunt
A toolkit for makers to ship awesome products
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Ryan Hoover

Ship by Product Hunt - A toolkit for makers to ship awesome products ⛵

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Ship is a toolkit for makers to build awesome products. Use Ship to generate demand, build an email list, and communicate with your audience, and ship product.

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Ryan Hoover
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For the past several weeks we've been beta testing a new suite of tools to help makers and startups build awesome products. We call it Ship. Ship is useful for anyone building a product: pre-launch, at launch, and post-launch. After all, launching is not a one-time thing and building an engaged community is 🔑. During our beta period, awesome folks including Eric Ries, Casey Neistat, and larger companies like Shopify, used Ship to announce their upcoming product launches, collect emails from interested subscribers, and gather feedback from their audience. We're opening access on a first-come, first-serve basis, so reserve your place in line now. If you'd like to skip the waitlist, sign up for one of the Pro plans and unlock additional super powers, including: ✏️ Surveys and Polls* 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Group Messaging* 🗓 Scheduled Product Launches* 🔍 A/B Testing* 📈 Reports and Analytics* 🌐 Custom Domain* 📣 Product Promotion 🎣 Webhooks *These features are shipping soon! Questions/feedback!? We'd love to hear it. 😸 EDIT: We decided to offer 20% off our Pro plans for the next few days using this link.
Adam Leidhecker
@rrhoover 🔥🤘 well done team!
Omar Uddin
@rrhoover good stuff - paid plans start off a bit steep but look forward to trying it out.
Frank Denbow
@rrhoover Looks cool but what does "Product Promotion" mean exactly?
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@frank_denbow those using the Pro plans will get additional visibility on our index of upcoming product launches and the homepage of Product Hunt.
Charles Jo
@rrhoover seems like a natural evolution of Product Hunt. Awesome.
Hiten Shah
What started as an MVP called Upcoming has turned into Ship! Bravo Product Hunt team. This is going to be super useful to all of us releasing new products and improving existing ones. 🙏🏽🚀🤗
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@hnshah 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 For everyone else, Hiten's been one of our best supporters over the past few months of beta testing. Thanks for all the advice and help!
Kunal Bhatia

There was a void left by people who wanted to reach the Product Hunt community but weren't ready to launch. You had to put a lot of effort into creating a webpage just to do a 'Pre-launch' hunt. That's all simplified now.

Pros:

You can put very little effort into building a landing page and getting beta customers, letting you focus on shipping your product!

Cons:

Nothing really! There's still a free version for everyone bootstrapping!

Andrew Falchook
Couldn't be more excited to start using Ship for upcoming projects. Sites like https://feathrd.co/ have really implemented it beautifully.
Nick Abouzeid
Maker
@falchook Couldn't agree more! cc @ambonium
Harry Raymond
@falchook beautiful implementation.
Harry Raymond
@falchook Only downer though is the powered by product hunt widget doesn't work on mobile.
Amrith
@falchook @harryraymond thanks Harry, glad you like it :)
Nick Abouzeid
Maker
@falchook @harryraymond Working on this! On our list of bugs to quash 🙏
Kireeti Varma
And thus, Product Hunt gets into business. :)
Jeremiah Smith

We've been using our upcoming page for the last couple of weeks and have collected over 1,000 emails already 😊

Saves days if not weeks by giving you tools to launch and iterate out of the box.

Welcome to the future 🚀

Pros:

The fastest way to collect emails while your build

Cons:

Nope, beats WordPress landing pages any day

Primer
Glad to see that "upcoming" has evolved into a "Ship". I have to say I'm put off somewhat by the monthly pricing. It's really quite high. Observation: there is a lack of clarity around "product promotion" and I've already seen others on here asking about it. Clearly this will be the primary driver of anyone using the service. Is there a reason it has been left somewhat vague in what it means? Also does this mean the PH homepage will become flooded with products that have paid to be there, as opposed to products that are there on merit? Cheers.
Dylan Buckley
@mickc79 This was bound to happen unfortunately, and it means PH will loose its value to true makers. It will just be a directory who have paid them.
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@mickc79 valid questions! Our hope is that Ship provides far more value than the amount people pay. We'll be offering a variety of features, some of which are wildly undervalued imho. For example, we offer unlimited emailing for Pro and Super Pro plans which could cost several thousands of dollars with other email management tools. We're very open to feedback and eager to see what features people want and use. Regarding product promotion, we're introducing annotations to make it clear which product received placement via Ship Pro or Super Pro. This currently only applies to Upcoming Landing Pages and does not affect the placement of a launched product you'll find in the daily feed.
Stefan Aichholzer
The free version seems alright. However, if you want to get a little more control and metrics, $47/month seems a little too expensive, it's not like we are going to be releasing several new products per month, furthermore and in my personal case, most things I do/release are free, open source, thus not a single cent is made. Perhaps it would be an idea to offer something like a PRO version for open source projects.
Justin Mitchell
@aichholzer 100% agree. I think this sets a dangerous precedent as well that to succeed you must pay. I want to keep the purity of PH alive and keep allowing indie makers and open source projects to shine without forcing them to cough up money they don't have.
Nick Abouzeid
Maker
@aichholzer @itsthisjustin Valid points. We're absolutely dedicated to the community here. To address this, we're introducing annotations to make it clear which product received placement via Ship Pro or Super Pro. This currently only applies to Upcoming Landing Pages and won't affect the placement of a launched product you'll find in the daily feed.
Guillaume Flandre
Awesome! I already loved the idea of Upcoming by itself, but building a full suite for product launches and iterations makes a lot of sense. I'm wondering how it's going to work for the Basic plan. It says there's 1 landing page included. Does that mean for next product launches, an upgrade is necessary? If so, would you consider adding a per-launch plan with only access to Upcoming?
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@gflandre currently the Basic plan allows you to have one active Upcoming Landing Page so you could replace a prior product launch with something new.
Guillaume Flandre
@rrhoover Got it, that's even better :)
Alexandre Mouriec
Product Hunt is a company I ❤️ so much and the team is full of people I appreciate and find very inspiring 🙏 They created something really big, especially for my generation. Monetization is needed but sometimes hard to find #startuplife I am so happy to learn that today, they are launching Ship, a toolkit for makers to ship awesome products 🚀 and the 1st step for them to monetize. My experience on PH was amazing ! They are helping people launch products from all over the world, without the need to be in SV. I was able to have so many awesome opportunities thanks to the community they created. I was able to launch products seen by several thousands of people, just from my college bedroom, and meet makers from all over the world. I am not the only one and I won't be the last one 🙌 I am looking forward to launch my next project thanks to Ship ! Seeing Upcoming evolve to Ship today is the perfect example of a great MVP. Great job Product Hunt Team 👏 🚀 I just wrote this post on Linkedin but I think its place is also on Product Hunt :)
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