Zero to Launch

Submit your project

Deadline: 12:00 PM MST, Sunday October 18, 2026. No late submissions.

One submission per team, filed from your Ship AI account. It takes about ten minutes if you have your numbers ready, so read this Friday rather than at 11:50 on Sunday.

You'll need an account — an email address and a six-digit code, no password to make. Start the entry as a draft whenever you like and keep editing it right up to the deadline; any member of your team can. Stuck? Post in the Discord before the deadline, not after.

What the form asks for

1. Project name

   What it's called.

2. Team

   One to four people, one team per person. Made once from your account — whoever starts it gets an invite code to send round, and every member can edit the entry.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. What it does

   Two or three sentences. What it is and who it's for.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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