ShipAcademy

Blog

Writing on shipping

Notes on building, launching, and selling software you made yourself.

More writing

  1. What is good code, and why does it matter?

    Every line of code is debt. Why clean code still matters when an AI agent is the one writing it for you.

    4 min readFrom Principles of maintainable code

  2. What is the "algo", really?

    The social media algorithm is not a mystery to be cracked. It is other people, and that changes how you post.

    5 min readFrom Conquering social media algorithms

  3. Your business will fail without a brand

    Marketing was never about product. Building a brand people feel something about, and writing pages that sound like a person wrote them.

    8 min readFrom Principles of marketing, branding, and copywriting

  4. The myth of secrecy

    Nobody is going to steal your idea, and guarding it costs you the feedback and awareness your business actually needs. Say what you're building.

    4 min readFrom Principles of marketing, branding, and copywriting

  5. Becoming a world-class product manager

    AI made building cheap, which is exactly how people kill their products. Deciding what not to build is now the whole job.

    8 min readFrom Building the app

  6. Your first page, written by your agent

    Building a real landing page with an agent, using a framework that scales instead of vanilla HTML you will outgrow in a month.

    3 min readFrom Creating your landing page

  7. Talk to your agent 4x faster than you type

    Detail is what makes an AI agent good, and the detail an app needs is book length. Dictation is how you supply it without typing for a week.

    5 min readFrom Setting up your computer to be AI ready

  8. Nobody buys features, they buy stories

    Software is a commodity and anyone can build anything. What sets a product apart is the story around it, not the feature list inside it.

    3 min readFrom Introduction to shipping

  9. Finding an app idea to work on

    Ideas don't arrive by inspiration, and market research won't hand you one either. A reproducible way to find an app idea worth building.

    6 min readFrom Introduction to shipping

There is a lot more where this came from.

These are the free ones. The full course covers the whole path from an idea to a product people pay for.

Join the course