We help you getyour first 1,000 users
A founder community with residencies, workshops, and distribution hackathons.
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Our Mission at Shiphouse
We've watched the same pattern for over a year. Founders find each other through residencies and short bursts of energy, build something exciting, and then everyone scatters. The product is still there. Distribution is still unsolved.
A strong idea is not the same as a company people actually use. Getting to your first 1,000 users is the hard part. That is the gap Shiphouse exists to close.
Shiphouse is a community first. You plug into meetups, workshops, and hackathons with other founders who are in the same fight, and you keep showing up until distribution starts to click.
If you're building something real and don't want it to fade after the first wave of hype, come get to your first 1,000 users with us.
FAQs
Shiphouse is a founder community built around one outcome: getting you to your first 1,000 users.
Inside the community you get meetups, GTM workshops, growth experiment workshops, distribution hackathons, and residencies when you want a more focused stretch.
Founders who already have a product, prototype, or serious build in motion, and whose real bottleneck is distribution.
If you need help with GTM, positioning, content, sales, or getting those first 1,000 users, you are in the right place.
People looking for passive networking, guaranteed investor intros, or someone else to do the work.
Shiphouse is for founders who will show up and execute.
The community runs on a mix of formats:
• Founder meetups
• GTM workshops
• Growth experiment workshops
• Distribution hackathons
• Residencies for founders who want a tighter, focused push
No. Shiphouse does not currently take equity for joining the community or the residency.
If we ever introduce any advisory, investment, or equity-related model in the future, we will say so clearly upfront.
No. We are not an agency.
We help you get clearer, sharper, and more focused, but founders are expected to execute.
The more seriously you participate, the more value you get.
Start by joining the WhatsApp community. That is the front door to meetups, workshops, and hackathons.
If you want a more focused stretch on top of that, apply to the residency.
A lot of founders do both.
Sounds like you belong here?
Come hang with the community, or apply to the residency if you want in deeper.