ShipDesk.dev: the launch platform for founders who ship
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The short answer: building in public gets people following along. A launch gets people trying the product. ShipDesk.dev is a weekly launch board for founders: launching there is free, every launch gets a backlink to your site, and the board starts fresh every Monday so a new product isn't buried under last month's winners.
You shipped it. Now launch it.
Most founders are good at building and bad at the moment after. The product works, the landing page is up, and then... nothing. Nobody knows it exists yet. A launch is how you turn weeks of quiet work into a day when people actually look.
The trouble with big launch sites is that a small team is up against companies with marketing budgets and launch-day squads. ShipDesk is built for the other end: indie makers, solo founders and small teams.
How ShipDesk works
- Paste a link. Your website, or an App Store or Google Play link. ShipDesk fills in the details for you.
- Pick your week. Every launch goes on that week's board, next to everything else launching that week.
- Get upvotes. Founders and early users browse the board, upvote what they like and click through to try it.
- A fresh board every Monday. Each week starts from zero, so you're competing with this week's launches, not with the whole history of the site.
It works for web apps, SaaS and AI tools, and for iOS, Android and Mac apps.
What you get from a launch
- Real people trying your product. The board is browsed by founders and early users who like finding new things.
- A backlink to your site. Every launch page links to your product, which helps search engines find and trust a new domain.
- A page that lasts. Your launch stays in the archive of all launches after the week ends, searchable by category.
- A badge for your site. Show that you launched, the same way commiToday does in its footer.
If you want more attention, launches can be featured at the top of the home page and every category for 7 days. It's optional. Launching itself is free.
More than launches
ShipDesk also has apps for sale: a place where founders list SaaS, web and mobile apps they want to sell, with owners checked and revenue connected straight from the payment provider. If a project has run its course, it can still find a next owner.
Where commiToday fits
The two are built to work together. commiToday is where you build in public: every day you post what you shipped, your commits become drafts, and every update gets its own page. ShipDesk is where you launch.
When your project is ready, you send it from your commiToday dashboard to ShipDesk in one click, with the name, description, link and logo already filled in. When the launch goes live, it shows up on your commiToday feed, so everyone who followed the build sees the launch too.
Weeks of public updates make a better launch: people already know the product, and the story of how it got built is right there on your page.
The takeaway
Ship every day, in public. When it's ready, launch it where founders are looking.