Built on Building Rocketships

Product judgment for builders.

Shipyard holds the product bar your AI tools won't. Coding agents make engineering faster. Shipyard answers the harder question. Is this the right thing to build, who is it for, and how do you take it to market.

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Agrees with you. Trained to be helpful.
Holds a standard. Tells you no when it should.
General advice from the whole internet.
Specific frameworks with real thresholds, like the 3x rule.
Answers even when it has no idea.
Refuses when the prerequisites are missing.
Optimizes for better code.
Optimizes for the right thing to build, and how to ship it.
What it actually does

Battle-tested product frameworks

The agent-skills world is roughly ninety percent engineering. Tokens, memory, cleaner code. Shipyard is the layer above that. It carries years of product thinking from the book and applies it to your situation.

Is this problem even worth building for?
What is the simplest version I should build first?
Who exactly is this for?
Should I build this feature, or skip it?
How should I price this?
What should I give away free vs. charge for?
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Where the judgment comes from

Built on the book

Shipyard is built on Building Rocketships by Oji and Ezinne Udezue. The book is the source. Shipyard quotes it, applies its exact thresholds, and flags the anti-patterns it warns against.

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