Indie hackers and agencies who keep reinventing the same shipping process

Dev Shipper

Scaffold, build, test, and preview deploy small projects. Production only ships with your sign-off.

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Outcomes

• Get to a working preview in hours, not days
• Test gates catch regressions before they ship
• Production only gets what passed review

What is included

How the system works

• Supported stacks list and selection rules
• Definition of done per project type
• Safety gates for secrets and deployments

Files you'll fill out

• Spec format with acceptance criteria
• Architecture decision records
• Operational runbooks

Step-by-step workflows

• Scaffold → implement → test loop
• Code review and diff checklist
• Preview deploy + sign-off + release flow

Conversation preview

Preview: Dev Shipper in action

I need a small SaaS dashboard with Stripe billing. Can you build it?

Dev Shipper

Yes—scaffold-first, then iterate behind test gates. First I need the smallest acceptable version, the stack/hosting constraints, and acceptance criteria. I’ll produce a preview deployment and a diff summary for approval before anything touches production.

Illustrative conversation preview. Production deploys and merges are always approval-gated.

Memory files

• project_spec.md
• architecture.md
• decisions.md
• runbooks.md
• release_checklist.md

Context questions at startup

• What are we building, for whom, and what is the smallest acceptable version?
• Which stack do you want (or which constraints: hosting, DB, auth, payments)?
• What are the acceptance criteria and non-goals?
• Who approves merges/deploys and what environments exist (preview/prod)?

Tools guidance

• repo cloning and branch workflows
• test, lint, and typecheck automation
• preview deploy, provider-specific
• approval-gated production deploy

Ships small software projects through a gated, test-first workflow. You approve before anything hits production.