For the past several weeks we've been beta testing a new suite of tools to help makers and startups build awesome products. We call it Ship. Ship is useful for anyone building a product: pre-launch, at launch, and post-launch. After all, launching is not a one-time thing and building an engaged community is 🔑. During our beta period, awesome folks including Eric Ries, Casey Neistat, and larger companies like Shopify, used Ship to announce their upcoming product launches, collect emails from interested subscribers, and gather feedback from their audience. We're opening access on a first-come, first-serve basis, so reserve your place in line now. If you'd like to skip the waitlist, sign up for one of the Pro plans and unlock additional super powers, including: ✏️ Surveys and Polls* 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Group Messaging* 🗓 Scheduled Product Launches* 🔍 A/B Testing* 📈 Reports and Analytics* 🌐 Custom Domain* 📣 Product Promotion 🎣 Webhooks *These features are shipping soon! Questions/feedback!? We'd love to hear it. 😸 EDIT: We decided to offer 20% off our Pro plans for the next few days using this link.

What started as an MVP called Upcoming has turned into Ship! Bravo Product Hunt team. This is going to be super useful to all of us releasing new products and improving existing ones. 🙏🏽🚀🤗

There was a void left by people who wanted to reach the Product Hunt community but weren't ready to launch. You had to put a lot of effort into creating a webpage just to do a 'Pre-launch' hunt. That's all simplified now.

Pros:

You can put very little effort into building a landing page and getting beta customers, letting you focus on shipping your product!

Cons:

Nothing really! There's still a free version for everyone bootstrapping!

Couldn't be more excited to start using Ship for upcoming projects. Sites like https://feathrd.co/ have really implemented it beautifully.

And thus, Product Hunt gets into business. :)

We've been using our upcoming page for the last couple of weeks and have collected over 1,000 emails already 😊

Saves days if not weeks by giving you tools to launch and iterate out of the box.

Welcome to the future 🚀

Pros:

The fastest way to collect emails while your build

Cons:

Nope, beats WordPress landing pages any day

Glad to see that "upcoming" has evolved into a "Ship". I have to say I'm put off somewhat by the monthly pricing. It's really quite high. Observation: there is a lack of clarity around "product promotion" and I've already seen others on here asking about it. Clearly this will be the primary driver of anyone using the service. Is there a reason it has been left somewhat vague in what it means? Also does this mean the PH homepage will become flooded with products that have paid to be there, as opposed to products that are there on merit? Cheers.

The free version seems alright. However, if you want to get a little more control and metrics, $47/month seems a little too expensive, it's not like we are going to be releasing several new products per month, furthermore and in my personal case, most things I do/release are free, open source, thus not a single cent is made. Perhaps it would be an idea to offer something like a PRO version for open source projects.

Awesome! I already loved the idea of Upcoming by itself, but building a full suite for product launches and iterations makes a lot of sense. I'm wondering how it's going to work for the Basic plan. It says there's 1 landing page included. Does that mean for next product launches, an upgrade is necessary? If so, would you consider adding a per-launch plan with only access to Upcoming?

Product Hunt is a company I ❤️ so much and the team is full of people I appreciate and find very inspiring 🙏 They created something really big, especially for my generation. Monetization is needed but sometimes hard to find #startuplife I am so happy to learn that today, they are launching Ship, a toolkit for makers to ship awesome products 🚀 and the 1st step for them to monetize. My experience on PH was amazing ! They are helping people launch products from all over the world, without the need to be in SV. I was able to have so many awesome opportunities thanks to the community they created. I was able to launch products seen by several thousands of people, just from my college bedroom, and meet makers from all over the world. I am not the only one and I won't be the last one 🙌 I am looking forward to launch my next project thanks to Ship ! Seeing Upcoming evolve to Ship today is the perfect example of a great MVP. Great job Product Hunt Team 👏 🚀 I just wrote this post on Linkedin but I think its place is also on Product Hunt :)

Holy ship! Perfect timing, as we'll be launching the next version of our product soon.

Upcoming has been really valuable and an instant hit with the chat-inspired landing pages. Nice work Ship-ping! 🙌 🚀

Just upgraded to pro - I imagine the value of the product will increase over time as y'all continue to iterate. Nice work everyone involved! My main issue thus far with the Upcoming page is I didn't get notified when people responded to a message. Not sure if that was my settings or it just wasn't implemented yet - but apart from that it's been a super valuable way to reach new people.

My Upcoming page was featured on 25 Aug, https://www.producthunt.com/upco.... Is it automatically a part of Ship's basic (free) plan? And if I buy a plan, say Pro, I am not sure for how long I need to pay for it? Till I launch my product and stop using the Product Hunt Upcoming page (by deleting it)?

Really do love the look of this and can't wait to get using it. If the tool could offer polling of future feature requests for customers and quite a flexible way of updating users on what's coming... there's absolutely no way I won't be using this for every future launch going forward.

Launching Product Hunt stuff on Product Hunt!! love it 😍

The growth hack with the request and the paid plans is sooooo smart!

Incredible execution on this! Congrats!

This looks great! I suspect demand will be huge. One question - what does Product Promotion include?

I bet investors are happy with this 💸