Shippin

Shippin is a software product discovery platform where builders launch their products, optionally showcase verified revenue, and get found by users and founders browsing for new tools. It sits in the same family as launch directories and product aggregators, but it states its ranking philosophy right on the homepage, where products are ranked by real engagement rather than just votes. The audience it courts is builders, indie hackers, and founders, people who ship software and, as the site puts it, buy it too.

The problem it pushes against is the launch-day dynamic that dominates the bigger directories. On those sites, everything rides on a single day where whoever mobilizes the largest voting crowd wins, which rewards audience size and coordination more than the product itself. Shippin weights genuine engagement instead, and its Best of the week feed surfaces the top products from the last seven days rather than crowning a daily winner, which spreads attention out and gives a listing more than one shot at being seen. For a solo builder with no mailing list to summon on command, that structure is the whole appeal. Listings still display their upvote counts, but the ordering doesn't begin and end with them, and the weekly feed keeps loading further down for anyone willing to scroll past the top handful.

Launching works the way you'd hope. Submitting a product is free, and the free tier permanently includes one active product with directory visibility. Listings live in a browsable products section where visitors filter by category, pricing model, revenue verification, and time period, and everything links straight through to the product's own site. Revenue verification is the distinctive piece, since builders can connect Stripe or Dodo to display verified numbers, or enter self-reported figures, and browsers can filter for products with verified revenue when they want signal over noise. Browsing itself requires no account and no payment, so the directory works just as well for a founder scouting a category as for a builder sizing up where a launch would land.

Beyond the free tier there's a Builder membership, currently offered at a founding rate of 29 dollars a year for the first 200 members, locked for life, against a standard price of 59 dollars a year. It bundles a verified builder badge, unlimited active listings, the ability to relaunch a product every 60 days, launching on a date of your choosing, verified revenue display, an Open for Acquisition flag for builders looking to sell, roughly a 40 percent ranking boost, simple platform analytics, visibility work aimed at Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude, and a 40 percent discount on advertising. The Google and AI visibility claim gets a small supporting signal in the site itself, which publishes machine-readable llms.txt files for AI assistants to crawl. There are no contracts, and the membership cancels anytime, with the founding price staying the same forever for whoever locks it in.

Advertising is its own small economy, and a refreshingly cheap one. There are ten promoted sidebar slots that appear across the homepage, product listings, and builder profiles. A 7-day slot costs 4.99 dollars and a 30-day slot costs 14.99 dollars, both as one-time payments with no minimum spend, and Builder members pay 2.99 and 8.99 respectively. At the lowest rate that works out to about 50 cents a day, which puts paid visibility within reach of hobby budgets rather than only funded startups. Reserving a slot means signing in, picking a duration and a product, and paying once, after which the ad runs across the placements until its listed expiration date.

Who it's for follows from all of that. Builders get a launch channel that doesn't demand a pre-existing audience, a place to prove revenue claims, and optionally a storefront for an acquisition. Users and founders get a feed of new software they can slice by category and credibility. What makes it different from the crowd of launch sites is the combination of engagement-weighted ranking, first-class revenue verification, and pricing across the board that stays in impulse territory. The tradeoff is the usual one for a younger platform, since the audience is smaller than the giant directories it positions itself against.

Access is genuinely free at the baseline. Browsing costs nothing, launching one product costs nothing, and no credit card is involved until you opt into the membership or an ad slot. The site publishes a contact address at hello@shippin.io, and for anyone shipping software without a crowd to rally, it's a cheap and honest place to be discoverable.