Zero to Launch
Submit your project
Deadline: 12:00 PM MST, Sunday October 18, 2026. No late submissions.
One submission per team, filed as a public issue on the Ship AI events repo. It takes about ten minutes if you have your numbers ready, so read this Friday rather than at 11:50 on Sunday.
The button opens a prefilled GitHub issue. You'll need a GitHub account — free, and about a minute to make. Stuck? Post in the Discord before the deadline, not after.
What the form asks for
Project name
What it's called.
Team
Names plus GitHub or X handles. One to four people, one team per person.
Track and category
B2C or B2B, and which of the four categories you're entering. One category per team — if you win one you're out of the running for the others.
Live URLrequired
Publicly reachable, working, and not behind a login. This is the one field with no substitute: an entry without a live URL cannot place.
What it does
Two or three sentences. What it is and who it's for.
What you launched this weekend
The launch itself — where, to whom, when. Link the post, the listing, the email, the thread. Whatever the launch actually was.
Receiptsrequired
Numbers with evidence you can put on screen Sunday: visitors, signups, revenue, replies, conversion. Screenshots are fine. Small and true beats big and vague — and zero is a real answer if you can say what you learned from it.
Growth engine
The one channel you'd run again next month. How it works, what it produced this weekend, and why it repeats without a hero effort.
Repo
Optional. Open source is welcome but not required — you keep 100% of your IP.
Before you hit submit
- Open your live URL in a private window. If it doesn't load for a stranger, it doesn't count.
- Have your analytics or dashboard open in a tab for the pitch. Judges will ask.
- Pick one category. Entering everything reads as not knowing what you built.
- Five minutes plus three of questions, live product on screen. Time it once.
receipts required