Shipboard is a free, no-account showcase for people who build and ship in public. Post a finished site in under a minute and it goes live immediately with an auto-generated live preview, sitting alongside everything else builders have launched recently.
The problem it solves
Most launch platforms ask a lot before they give anything back: create an account, verify an email, schedule a launch date, chase upvotes, install a badge. Shipboard removes all of that. You paste a URL, it pulls a preview, and your project is on the wall. There is no signup, no cost, and no approval queue standing between shipping something and having people see it.
What you get
- Live previews. Shipboard renders your actual site rather than a static screenshot you have to upload and keep current.
- Category browsing. Projects are organised across SaaS, AI, developer tools, design, games, content and media, and productivity, so people can find work like yours.
- Multiple sort orders. Sort the wall by newest, most voted, most visited, or recently shipped depending on what you want to discover.
- Builder profiles. Every maker gets a profile that collects their submissions in one place, with optional X linking so people can follow the work over time.
- Free forever. No paid tier gating visibility, no queue-skipping fees, no badge requirement.
Who it is for
Indie developers, solo founders and early-stage teams who have finished something and have no distribution. Shipboard is aimed squarely at the gap between "it's live" and "anyone knows about it" - the stretch where a good project quietly gets no traffic because nobody has seen it yet.
If you ship regularly, Shipboard also works as a running portfolio: each launch adds to your builder profile, so the wall becomes a record of what you have put into the world.
