For makers

The 7-day launch checklist

A step a day for the week after you list a launch. What we'd do, in our opinion; the facts about Daily Shipped are the ones on How it works.

  1. Day 1

    Claim your listing

    Add the small tag to your homepage or the DNS record from the claim page. The listing gets the Verified stamp and you can edit it any time. Then put your Instagram profile and your X handle on it before it goes live: the day's edition goes out as a carousel on our Instagram and Facebook (up to nine launches, most upvoted first, with the editor's own picks only filling the cards left over), and a listing in it that links its Instagram profile is tagged in the caption. Add "Why I built this": it shows on the page once you've claimed it.

  2. Day 2

    Tell your own users

    Write to the people who already use it and ask each for one upvote on Daily Shipped. Votes are one per account, and the week's most upvoted launch, with enough votes, takes the top of the paper. You can't vote for your own launch, so it has to be them.

  3. Day 3

    Put the badge on your site

    Once your listing is live, the approval email brings the "Listed on Daily Shipped" badge for your site or README, with your edition number, in light and dark; it links back to your listing. Share the listing with the links in that email.

  4. Day 4

    One post where people already ask for this

    Find a forum thread or a subreddit where someone asks for your kind of tool. Read the rules first, answer the question properly, then mention yours and say you made it. One good answer beats any number of announcements.

  5. Day 5

    Say what you changed

    A short post on X or LinkedIn: what you changed this week and what you learned. The product is the proof, not the pitch. Tag @dailyshipped if you post the listing on Instagram, so we see it.

  6. Day 6

    Ask a few users one question

    "What did you expect it to do that it didn't?" Their words are the next version. Keep the answers in one place and look for the thing more than one person said.

  7. Day 7

    Read what shipped next to you

    Open the paper, or the Friday email if you take it: the week's launches with a line on each. Note what others in your category are doing, then pick the one change you'll make next week.

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The 7-day launch checklist - Daily Shipped