Submission Guidelines
Shipstry is for real products, not just ideas. We accept maker-built products that are usable, launch-ready, or genuinely evaluable today and make sense in a product discovery community.
Real products with a clear use case, real maker ownership, and a working destination URL.
Private betas, repo-first products, productized media, and major relaunches may need manual review.
Waitlists, services, spammy SEO pages, misleading listings, and unsafe or illegal submissions.
What You Can Ship On Shipstry
The common thread is simple: the thing being submitted should itself be the product people are here to discover.
Apps And Software
Web apps, mobile apps, desktop apps, browser extensions, SaaS products, and AI tools with a real product experience.
Developer Products
APIs, SDKs, CLIs, infrastructure tools, open source products with clear docs or a usable demo, and other builder-facing software.
Productized Platforms
Marketplaces, directories, communities, media products, and similar offerings when the product itself is the experience.
Makers With Ownership
Submissions from founders, makers, team members, or people with clear permission to represent the product.
Every Submission Must Meet These Standards
These are the checks we expect every approved listing to pass, regardless of category or pricing tier.
It is a real product
The submission should represent a real product or platform, not just an idea, teaser page, or vague concept.
It is launch-ready or usable now
Users should be able to understand, access, try, install, register for, or meaningfully evaluate it today.
It is submitted by the right person
The submitter should be the maker, founder, team member, or another clearly authorized representative.
It fits product discovery
The listing should make sense in a community that discovers, discusses, and votes on new products.
It is honest and complete
The URL, screenshots, logo, description, and claims should accurately reflect the product without hype or misdirection.
What We Usually Reject
These patterns typically do not fit Shipstry, even if the page is polished.
Pure waitlists, coming soon pages, and idea-only landing pages
Agencies, consultancies, freelancer services, and personal portfolios
Thin affiliate pages, spam directories, or pages built mainly for backlinks or SEO
Broken, inaccessible, misleading, or obviously low-trust product pages
Products that are illegal, unsafe, infringing, malicious, or clearly abusive
One More Rule
If the listing feels like it exists mainly to collect backlinks, harvest traffic, or inflate launch metrics, it is not a fit for Shipstry.
We want products people can genuinely discover, understand, discuss, and vote on, not pages optimized mainly for distribution hacks.
Reviewed Case By Case
These can still be approved, but they usually need stronger proof of product quality or clearer launch context.
Private beta products
Allowed when the product clearly exists and there is a credible way to request or obtain access.
Open source projects
Allowed when the repo is paired with docs, a demo, screenshots, or a clear onboarding path.
Newsletters, courses, and communities
Allowed when the offering itself is the product, not just a lead magnet for a service business.
Relaunches and major versions
Allowed only when there is a meaningful new release, major rebuild, or substantial change in product scope.
How Review Works
Approval is not just a content check. We review for product reality, launch fit, trust, and quality.
We check whether the submission is a real product and whether the listing is complete.
We verify fit with Shipstry: maker-built, product-first, and suitable for launch discovery.
We look for duplicates, spam, misleading claims, trust and safety issues, and low-quality SEO pages.
We approve, reject, or ask for clarification when the product falls into a case-by-case category.
Ready To Ship?
If your product meets the standards above, you are ready to submit it to Shipstry. If you are unsure about edge cases, email us before submitting and include your product URL plus a short explanation of what users can access today.