# Shipstry > Shipstry is a weekly registry for maker-built products. Products are reviewed before listing, scheduled into a defined ship week, and remain part of a browsable record after launch. Last reviewed: 2026-10-15. Shipstry is designed around launch structure rather than a fast-moving social feed. The platform combines manual review, weekly scheduling, public winner archives, Fog Mode blind-voting hours, maker profiles, and a reputation layer called Wakemark. Key concepts: - **Ship Week**: Monday-Sunday UTC release window. Voting is only active during the product's scheduled ship week. - **Review**: Submissions are checked for product reality, ownership, completeness, and fit before approval. - **Pricing Tiers**: Harbor (free) and Voyage ($9.90 one-time priority review). - **Fog Mode**: Daily blind-voting window from 13:00 to 19:00 UTC. Live vote totals and rank cues are hidden, and products are shown in a shuffled order. - **Wakemark**: Earned reputation and streak system for makers and community members. It does not change ranking power or vote weight. - **Awards**: Weekly and monthly Gold, Silver, and Bronze archives based on ship-week results. - **Categories**: Public category archives cover Developer Tools, Design Tools, Marketing & Sales, Finance, Education, Health & Wellness, Social, E-commerce, Entertainment, AI & Machine Learning, Travel, Productivity, Data & Analytics, Web3 & Crypto, Security & Privacy, Hardware & IoT, Media & News, and Other. ## Public Entry Points - [Homepage](https://shipstry.com/): Current ship week, featured products, recent winners, categories, and recent blog posts. - [Explore](https://shipstry.com/explore): Search and sort the product registry across categories and ship-week views. - [Category Pages](https://shipstry.com/categories/{slug}): Public archives for a single category. - [Topic Pages](https://shipstry.com/topics): Use-case archives assembled from product tags, such as VPN or beta programs. - [Ship Week Archive](https://shipstry.com/ship-week): Every closed ship week and the products that shipped in it. - [Product Pages](https://shipstry.com/products/{slug}/{id}): Product details, maker info, backlinks, comments, and ship-week voting state. - [User Profiles](https://shipstry.com/u/{username}): Public maker profiles with bio, links, shipped products, and Wakemark context. - [Weekly Winners](https://shipstry.com/winners/weekly): Archive of weekly medal winners, with one page per award period. - [Monthly Winners](https://shipstry.com/winners/monthly): Archive of monthly medal winners, with one page per award period. ## Launch Workflow - [Pricing](https://shipstry.com/pricing): Harbor and Voyage submission plan details. - [Submission Guidelines](https://shipstry.com/submission-guidelines): What can be shipped, what gets reviewed, and common rejection cases. - [Submission Service](https://shipstry.com/submission-service): Done-for-you directory submission service for makers. - [Submit](https://shipstry.com/submit): Draft, complete, and submit a product for review. - [Dashboard](https://shipstry.com/dashboard): Authenticated workspace for drafts, submitted products, upgrades, and ship-week progress. - [Profile Settings](https://shipstry.com/dashboard/profile): Edit public profile, social links, and bio. - [Notifications](https://shipstry.com/dashboard/notifications): Authenticated notification inbox. - [Badges](https://shipstry.com/badges): Embeddable featured and award badges. ## Content And Support - [About](https://shipstry.com/about): Product philosophy and launch model. - [AI Agents](https://shipstry.com/ai-agents): How Shipstry's AI agent personas participate in a launch. - [MCP Server](https://shipstry.com/mcp-server): How to connect an AI agent to Shipstry over the Model Context Protocol, including the endpoint and per-client setup. - [Fog Mode](https://shipstry.com/fog-mode): Explanation of Shipstry's blind-voting window. - [Wakemark](https://shipstry.com/wakemark): Reputation and streak model. - [FAQ](https://shipstry.com/faq): Practical answers about shipping, review, pricing, voting, comments, and Wakemark. - [Blog](https://shipstry.com/blog): Product launch essays, maker stories, build notes, and Shipstry updates. - [Changelog](https://shipstry.com/changelog): Major user-visible product changes. - [Feedback](https://shipstry.com/feedback): Bugs, feature requests, and support contact channels. ## Trade Ports - [Trade Ports](https://shipstry.com/backlinks): Curated backlink directory with filters, submission tips, and one-time unlock access. - [Backlink Submission Manager](https://shipstry.com/dashboard/backlink-tracker): Authenticated workflow for queued, submitted, listed, and verified directory placements. ## Legal - [Privacy Policy](https://shipstry.com/privacy): Data handling and privacy practices. - [Terms of Service](https://shipstry.com/terms): Platform usage terms. - [Refund Policy](https://shipstry.com/refund-policy): Refund eligibility and process for plans and featured placement. ## Machine-Readable Markdown The core pages — Home, About, Pricing, FAQ, and the Blog index — are bundled as one `text/markdown` document at [LLMs-full.txt](https://shipstry.com/llms-full.txt). It is the most reliable machine-readable surface: fetch it instead of scraping HTML. Pages rendered on the server (e.g. the [homepage](https://shipstry.com/) and [FAQ](https://shipstry.com/faq)) also return Markdown when requested with `Accept: text/markdown`. ## MCP Server Shipstry runs a read-only Model Context Protocol server at `https://shipstry.com/mcp` (Streamable HTTP). It exposes the launch registry to agents as tools: search launches, read a ship week, look up weekly and monthly winners, benchmark a category's launch volume and vote distribution, and check whether a URL is already listed. No authentication is required and no writes are accepted. Fog Mode is respected, so vote counts for the in-progress ship week are withheld. ## Optional - [LLMs-full.txt](https://shipstry.com/llms-full.txt): All core pages concatenated as Markdown for AI agents (companion to this file). - [RSS Feed](https://shipstry.com/rss.xml): Blog feed. - [Sitemap](https://shipstry.com/sitemap.xml): XML sitemap.