A manual for going from an empty folder to a live site taking real card payments inside one working day. Twelve stages, the money path in the detail it actually needs, and the traps that catch almost everyone. PDF, $10.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I kept watching people get 90% of the way to a paid product and stall at the same wall. Getting the code written isn't the hard part anymore — ask an AI assistant for a payment page and you'll have a working one in minutes.
The trouble is the cases you can't easily try: two people buying the last one at the same second, a payment that arrives twice, a refund a month later, a customer who closes the tab at the wrong moment. Every one of them ends the same way — someone's card is charged and they get nothing.
So I wrote the manual I wish I'd had. 12 stages, in the order you actually do them, from naming the thing to going live. Each stage ends with "watch out for" boxes — 18 of them — and every trap is one that genuinely bit me building real products.
It's ~9,000 words. Read it in an hour, ship in a day. It doesn't assume you can code — it assumes you have an AI assistant that can, and shows you what to ask for and how to check you got it.
Both howtoship.today and its sister site parkbid.lol were built this exact way.
It's $10. Happy to answer anything — DM me on X (@ishangupta_1) and I'll send a 50% code. What's the thing you've been meaning to ship?