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A toolkit for makers to ship awesome products
Ryan Hoover
Ship 2.0 β€” A toolkit to ship awesome products, by Product Hunt ⛡️
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Ship 2.0 is a toolkit to help makers ship awesome products. Quick landing pages, build an email list, communicate with your beta users and more.

Signup for one of our Pro plans and get up to $5,000 in free AWS credits and instant access to Stripe Atlas.

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Ryan Hoover
A lot has changed since we launched Ship 1.0, nearly a year ago. Since then, thousands of makers have used it to build an audience and communicate with over 2,000,000 early adopters. A few popular projects (like this one) use Ship to build a waitlist of more than 55,000 subscribers. We’ve learned a TON from their feedback. This big update includes: βœ… New tools. Now you can create a Chat room with your community, useful for managing a small beta group or gathering feedback on a new feature. βœ… More customization. The most popular feature of Ship is our landing page creator, but some makers wanted to personalize their page even further. Now you can choose from three templates and customize everything from the background image to the button color to match your brand. βœ… AWS and Stripe perks. Those on Pro plans can unlock up to $5,000 in free AWS credits and instant access to Stripe Atlas + zero fees on the first $50,000 of transactions. Our goal is to offer a single toolset to help makers build an audience, speak with their community, and ultimately ship better products. We’d love your feedback and feature suggestions. P.S. The first person to spot the Doug reference in the video gets free Ship kitty stickers. Reply here once you've spotted it. πŸ˜‰
Seth Louey
@rrhoover love seeing @mubashariqbal & @robjama in the video. Congrats on the launch
Ryan Hoover
@yvoschaap feedback welcome! Something I didn't mention that you might find useful: We're also introducing a way for you and your team (if you're working with multiple people) to share a public roadmap/list of goal for each projects. More on that in a few weeks. πŸ˜‰
Smit Patel
@rrhoover Congrats on the launch! The community features are $$ IMHO.
Boris Berenberg
@rrhoover Default email address on signup in mail form ;)
Youssef KH
@yvoschaap @rrhoover yes this will be very helpful for me and my team of 4 cats! We will be more productive I guess thank you
Waqas Ali
We at Atoms, have been using Ship Pro since the beginning to build a waitlist for the shoes. πŸ‘Ÿ Initially the goal was just to build a better sign up page that shows social validation. It turned out to be a lot more, we were able to get important info from our subscribers like their shoe size, location and exiting shoe experience. That level of engagement was key to build out the community and then we used Ship to send (not so) regular updates with behind the scene info and how we were approaching the product. Thank you team – you built an amazing tool. It served us well and hoping to see more using it. πŸ™πŸ½
Jamie Lawrence
Are there any examples of the new landing pages? The previous version was… not good
Jamie Lawrence
or, rather: it was definitely not my sort of thing. I stopped reading them and either bounced when I saw it or subscribed based just on the link instead of read the fake "chat"
Ryan Hoover
@ideasasylum we received a ton of feedback from people that liked and disliked the chat bubble landing page variation. We added two additional templates. Here's an example of the split template we're using now.
Jon Sutherland
If this also had a waiting list feature, where you could move up the list by referring others to sign up, it would be purrfect 😻
Radoslav Stankov
At Product Hunt we often use emojis as code names for projects. The emoji for Ship 2.0 was πŸ›₯
Dayal
@rstankov Hey, Gotta say that I'm not able to see you people's Emoji on my Windows & Android devices..!!!
Youssef KH
@rstankov why not πŸ†?
Radoslav Stankov
@itsnblackburn @ucefkh πŸ‘ is for an other project
Greig Cranfield
Continually impressed with what the team at PH release and the updates to Ship look awesome. Top work :)
Kevin Lee
Awesome Improvements
Dayal
"All The Best" to the people who've developed the Product as well as the future users.... Great Work...!!!
Chris Buttenham
Looking forward to trying this out!
Igo Akulov
Embedding chat & community features into Ship is an amazing move. It is starting to make sense what you've envisioned it to be, and I love it.
Dave Poly
00:33 dougfunnie@gmail.com 😜 love the updates!
Ryan Hoover
@dave_poly BOOM! You win, Dave. Want to message me with your mailing address?
Dave Poly
@rrhoover I told my mom watching cartoons would pay off one day! Haha Will shoot ya a message. Thanks, Ryan!
Biraj Ghosh
The video was sexy af
Mohammed Rafy
Exciting stuff. Loved the video and the line spend less time building landing pages and spend more time building products. <3
Youssef KH
@rafyasarmatta Salam Mohammed what's up bro?
Youssef KH
I love it β™₯️😻 I can't say anymore than that. It's pretty good! Props to our great Hunter Ryan πŸ‘Œ
Siranush Hovhannisyan
awesome
Ghost Kitty
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Hossein Shams
Great improvements. Looking forward to use it soon.
Shreyas Jothish

1. 7 day free trail deducted money instantly and now on changing the plan results in processing fee overhead. I lost some money due to this for Credit card processing.

2. Stripe Atlas and Stripe Processing Credit seems more like click bait. $500 for Stripe Atlas and limit for each type of subscription should be clearly mentioned in Product Hunt website.

3. AWS credit being conditional should be clearly mentioned in Product Hunt website.

Pros:

Monthly subscriptions are better for products needing short term ship features.

Cons:

Annual subscription does not include the exclusions clearly.

Imran Khawaja
What are the aws credit conditions?
Shreyas Jothish
@imrankhawaja82 If you have already received AWS credits, then you are not eligible again even if you register to Ship.
Ryan Hoover
Thanks for the feedback, Shreyas! I wanted to take some time to respond to your input: 1. Sorry to hear this! You shouldn't have been charged during the 7 day free trial. I'll check with the team to make sure we're not missing a bug or edge case. 2. Ship doesn't advertise free Atlas access but perhaps we should make it even more clear. I wish we could convince Stripe to offer it for free but every new customer costs them money so that might be a stretch. πŸ˜ƒ 3. AWS has some criteria (outside of our control) which we include in your dashboard, but please let us know if it's missing something. Of course if you signup for an annual plan and end up not being eligible for credits and want a refund, we're happy to do so. Bummed we completely failed you on this one. If we can help with anything, shoot us a note at hello@producthunt.com or hit the chat bubble in the bottom right of this page.
Paul Danyliuk
It's super cool that I can prepare a landing page beforehand! There's a small sadness though. When I set up the thumbnail for social sharing posts, it only gets picked up by Twitter, but not Facebook β€” the latter uses my [non-informative] background image instead. Fix this, and I'll love you forever! 😸
Nick Abouzeid
@paul_danyliuk Hi! Just seeing this. Have you tried updating the page with Facebook's debugger? https://developers.facebook.com/...
Paul Danyliuk
@nickabouzeid Hi! Now it loads the correct image, but animation does not play (at least in the debugger). I’m already past the upcoming stage though, just launched today. Thanks for the handy tool, it was my landing page redirect for the last month or so πŸ˜‰
Nick Abouzeid
@paul_danyliuk Animations won't play in article cards, just still images. I'm not aware of any supported link that includes GIFs in the article card, unfortunately. Course! Glad the landing page worked out for you πŸ€—