Submission Guidelines
Shipstry is for real products, not just ideas. The listing should represent something people can genuinely access, evaluate, discuss, and vote on today.
The review process favors product reality, honest presentation, and maker ownership over launch noise or distribution tricks.
Usually accepted
Real products with a working destination URL, clear ownership, and a credible user experience.
Reviewed case by case
Private betas, repo-first launches, and unusual product shapes may need more evidence.
Usually rejected
Waitlists, service businesses, spammy pages, and unsafe listings do not fit the registry.
If the listing exists mainly to collect backlinks, harvest traffic, or manufacture launch metrics, it is not a fit for Shipstry.
What belongs here
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.
Five approval checks
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 usually gets rejected
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
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
- A working product URL with an obvious product experience.
- Accurate screenshots, copy, and ownership context.
- Clear explanation when the product falls into an edge case.
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.
If the product clears these checks, send it in.
Submit when the product is real, accessible, honestly presented, and ready for people to evaluate today.