# Shipstry

> Shipstry is a weekly registry for maker-built products. Products are reviewed before listing, scheduled into a defined ship week, and remain part of a browsable record after launch.

Last reviewed: 2026-06-24.

Shipstry is designed around launch structure rather than a fast-moving social feed. The platform combines manual review, weekly scheduling, public winner archives, Fog Mode blind-voting hours, maker profiles, and a reputation layer called Wakemark.

Key concepts:
- **Ship Week**: Monday-Sunday UTC release window. Voting is only active during the product's scheduled ship week.
- **Review**: Submissions are checked for product reality, ownership, completeness, and fit before approval.
- **Pricing Tiers**: Harbor (free), Voyage ($9.90 one-time), Flagship ($3/day featured placement).
- **Fog Mode**: Daily blind-voting window from 13:00 to 19:00 UTC. Live vote totals and rank cues are hidden, and products are shown in a shuffled order.
- **Wakemark**: Earned reputation and streak system for makers and community members. It does not change ranking power or vote weight.
- **Awards**: Weekly and monthly Gold, Silver, and Bronze archives based on ship-week results.
- **Categories**: Public category archives cover Developer Tools, Design Tools, Marketing & Sales, Finance, Education, Health & Wellness, Social, E-commerce, Entertainment, AI & Machine Learning, Travel, Productivity, Data & Analytics, Web3 & Crypto, Security & Privacy, Hardware & IoT, Media & News, and Other.

## Public Entry Points

- [Homepage](https://shipstry.com/): Current ship week, featured products, recent winners, categories, and recent blog posts.
- [Explore](https://shipstry.com/explore): Search and sort the product registry across categories and ship-week views.
- [Category Pages](https://shipstry.com/categories/{slug}): Public archives for a single category.
- [Product Pages](https://shipstry.com/products/{slug}/{id}): Product details, maker info, backlinks, comments, and ship-week voting state.
- [User Profiles](https://shipstry.com/u/{username}): Public maker profiles with bio, links, shipped products, and Wakemark context.
- [Weekly Winners](https://shipstry.com/winners/weekly): Archive of weekly medal winners.
- [Monthly Winners](https://shipstry.com/winners/monthly): Archive of monthly medal winners.

## Launch Workflow

- [Pricing](https://shipstry.com/pricing): Harbor, Voyage, and Flagship plan details.
- [Submission Guidelines](https://shipstry.com/submission-guidelines): What can be shipped, what gets reviewed, and common rejection cases.
- [Submit](https://shipstry.com/submit): Draft, complete, and submit a product for review.
- [Dashboard](https://shipstry.com/dashboard): Authenticated workspace for drafts, submitted products, upgrades, and ship-week progress.
- [Profile Settings](https://shipstry.com/profile): Edit public profile, social links, and bio.
- [Notifications](https://shipstry.com/notifications): Authenticated notification inbox.
- [Badges](https://shipstry.com/badges): Embeddable featured and award badges.

## Content And Support

- [About](https://shipstry.com/about): Product philosophy and launch model.
- [Fog Mode](https://shipstry.com/fog-mode): Explanation of Shipstry's blind-voting window.
- [Wakemark](https://shipstry.com/wakemark): Reputation and streak model.
- [FAQ](https://shipstry.com/faq): Practical answers about shipping, review, pricing, voting, comments, and Wakemark.
- [Blog](https://shipstry.com/blog): Product launch essays, maker stories, build notes, and Shipstry updates.
- [Changelog](https://shipstry.com/changelog): Major user-visible product changes.
- [Feedback](https://shipstry.com/feedback): Bugs, feature requests, and support contact channels.

## Trade Ports

- [Trade Ports](https://shipstry.com/backlinks): Curated backlink directory with filters, submission tips, and one-time unlock access.
- [Backlink Submission Manager](https://shipstry.com/dashboard/backlink-submissions): Authenticated workflow for queued, submitted, listed, and verified directory placements.

## Legal

- [Privacy Policy](https://shipstry.com/privacy): Data handling and privacy practices.
- [Terms of Service](https://shipstry.com/terms): Platform usage terms.
- [Refund Policy](https://shipstry.com/refund-policy): Refund eligibility and process for plans and featured placement.

## Machine-Readable Markdown

The core pages — Home, About, Pricing, FAQ, and the Blog index — are bundled as one `text/markdown` document at [LLMs-full.txt](https://shipstry.com/llms-full.txt). It is the most reliable machine-readable surface: fetch it instead of scraping HTML.

Pages rendered on the server (e.g. the [homepage](https://shipstry.com/) and [FAQ](https://shipstry.com/faq)) also return Markdown when requested with `Accept: text/markdown`.

## Optional

- [LLMs-full.txt](https://shipstry.com/llms-full.txt): All core pages concatenated as Markdown for AI agents (companion to this file).
- [RSS Feed](https://shipstry.com/rss.xml): Blog feed.
- [Sitemap](https://shipstry.com/sitemap.xml): XML sitemap.