![Ship Log 2026](https://cdn.slatesource.com/4/c/d/4cd56165-7fa1-4928-aa3d-20b1e9d451fc.webp)

# Ship Log 2026

- [Made in Slatesource](https://slatesource.com/@steph/ship-log-2026)
- By [Steph](https://slatesource.com/@steph)
- Created on Jul 20, 2026

Tab Tamer

Tab Tamer - I had 90 tabs open and no intention of reading any of them. So I built the thing that closes them for you and tells you what you lost. Two evenin...

The Weekend Speed Run

Idea to deployed in one weekend

The 4am Fix

Six hours on four characters - The fix was deleting two words. The six hours went on believing the code I had written, because it read correctly and the AI t...

The Rewrite Diary

What the rewrite was actually for - Nothing on the outside changed. No user asked for this and no user noticed it, which is the honest summary. What changed ...

The Graveyard

The graveyard - Thirty two dead experiments, one line each. No lessons learned section, because the lesson is almost always the same and it is not interestin...

Shipped this year

41

Median build time

6 hours

Still online today

9

Longest shipping streak

23 days

## FortyForty oneone thingsthings, ninenine survivorssurvivors

The numbernumber that mattersmatters is not 41. It is 9. NineNine of these are stillstill runningrunning, stillstill costingcosting moneymoney, stillstill gettinggetting the occasionaloccasional emailemail from someonesomeone who foundfound them. The otherother 32 were realreal for a weekweek and then they were not. This pagepage keepskeeps bothboth columnscolumns becausebecause a shipship loglog that only listslists the winnerswinners is a portfolioportfolio, and a portfolioportfolio is marketingmarketing. This is the loglog.

How a thing gets onto this list

It ships, it gets a URL a stranger can open, and it stays up for seven days. Ideas do not count. Localhost does not count. A demo video does not count. The bar is deliberately low and still most things do not clear it.

# What actually belongs in a public ship log?

Log in to vote