vs ShipIt
ShipIt makes quitting visible. ShipOrDie.lol makes quitting expensive for you and useful to whoever actually shipped that week. ShipIt
Job
ShipIt
Public deadline + graveyard for side projects
ShipOrDie.lol
Public ship-date stake with a weekly prize pool
Stake
ShipIt
Free to start. Optional small stake they keep if you miss
ShipOrDie.lol
$25–$2000 required, paid in full. Miss funds on-time shippers
Proof
ShipIt
GitHub activity and your own launch claim
ShipOrDie.lol
We fetch a live https product. Recycled URLs fail
Public
ShipIt
Building timeline, launched list, graveyard
ShipOrDie.lol
Live book, UTC week, hall of on-time shippers
Window
ShipIt
A date you cannot change
ShipOrDie.lol
2–21 days, end of that UTC day, one active stake
Miss
ShipIt
Graveyard. Optional stake stays with ShipIt
ShipOrDie.lol
Stake enters the weekly pool. Streak dies
Pick this board
Use this board when the stake has to be real and the proof has to be a live site. $25–$2000, cards via Stripe, 2–21 days. We fetch the URL. Missed stakes are not kept as platform loot — they become that Monday's prize pool for uncontested on-time shippers.
Pick ShipIt
Use ShipIt when you want a free public deadline, GitHub-tracked streaks, and a graveyard that can be handed off or sold. Their optional stake is small and, if you miss, they keep it. Different ledger.
If you already want a public indie-hacker deadline and you want real money on it, yes. ShipIt can stay free. This board does not: you pay $25–$2000 before the name is public.
On ShipIt, an optional stake you lose is kept by that product. On ShipOrDie.lol a missed stake is 100% of what you paid, and it is split among that week's uncontested successful shippers. The platform fee is on successful refunds, not on harvesting misses.
No. A dead stake is a dead stake. You cannot quietly restake a product you already shipped. You can dare someone else onto the board; they pay their own money. That is an invite, not a sale of your corpse.
You can announce wherever you want. Proof here is still a live URL we fetch, on or before the UTC deadline, after the stake has been live long enough. Their GitHub streak is not our proof.