12 Days of Shipmas
December 1-12, 2025
Join the ultimate shipping challenge! Commit to deploying to production every day for 12 days straight.
What is Shipmas?
12 Days of Shipmas is a community-driven event inspired by hackathons and Advent of Code, but with a twist: instead of just coding, you ship to production!
From December 1st to 12th, 2025, individuals and teams commit to shipping real, working software to production. Whether you're building a new product, adding features, or launching experiments - the goal is simple: ship it!
Join our community, share your progress, and get inspired by what others are building. Every day is a new opportunity to create, deploy, and celebrate shipping culture.
🎯 The Rules Are Simple:
- • Choose your difficulty level
- • Ship to production every day (or work towards your 12-day goal)
- • Share your progress with the community
- • Support and celebrate other shippers!
Choose Your Challenge
Extreme Mode
🔥Ship a completely new product every single day for 12 days. Yes, 12 different products in 12 days!
Perfect for:
- • Rapid prototypers
- • Micro-SaaS builders
- • API creators
- • Tool makers
Hard Mode
⚡Build and ship one complete product over the course of 12 days, deploying progress daily.
Perfect for:
- • Side project launchers
- • MVP builders
- • Product validators
- • Startup founders
Regular Mode
🚀Ship a new feature to an existing product every day for 12 days.
Perfect for:
- • Product improvers
- • Feature developers
- • UX enhancers
- • Growth hackers
Should I Sign Up?
Shipmas is open to everyone! Here are some of the builders who thrive in our community:
The Procrastinator
You've been thinking about building that idea for months (or years). Shipmas gives you the deadline and community to finally make it happen.
The Local Hero
Want to make something beautiful or useful for your local community? Ship projects that make your neighborhood better.
The Collaborator
Looking for a coding buddy or co-founder? Build alongside others, pair program, and find your perfect teammate.
The Game Maker
Always wanted to build a game? Whether it's a simple browser game or something more ambitious, Shipmas is your launchpad.
The Hardware Hacker
Building robots, IoT devices, or physical computing projects? Shipmas welcomes all forms of making and building.
The Writer
Publish an article, blog post, or tutorial every day. Build your audience while sharing your knowledge and stories.
The Parent
Balancing childcare with building? Perfect! Many participants ship alongside their kids or even get them involved in the building process.
The After-Hours Builder
Only have an hour or two in the evenings after work and the gym? That's enough! Many successful ships happen in small daily increments.
The Creator
Designers, artists, and creators of all kinds are welcome! Ship design systems, illustrations, templates, or creative tools.
The Only Requirement?
If you can dedicate a little bit of time each day to building something, you're ready for Shipmas. It doesn't matter if it's 30 minutes or 8 hours - consistency and shipping are what count.
I'm Ready to Ship!How It Works
Here's what your Shipmas journey will look like from start to finish
Join the Community
Sign up, join our Discord server, and introduce yourself! Connect with fellow builders, find collaborators, and get inspired by what others are planning to ship.
Build & Ship Daily
From December 1-12, build and deploy something new every day (or work towards your 12-day goal). We'll have daily check-ins, debugging sessions, and community calls where we help each other overcome blockers and celebrate wins.
Share Your Progress
Each day, submit what you've shipped through our form. Share screenshots, links, and stories about what you built. Your submissions will appear on our public feed, inspiring others and building your portfolio in real-time.
Showcase & Celebrate
On December 12th, we'll host a virtual celebration and showcase! Present what you've built, connect with other shippers over drinks (virtual or local), and see all the amazing work featured on our website. Many participants go on to form lasting friendships, find co-founders, or launch successful products together.
Live Support
Join daily calls for debugging help, accountability, and camaraderie
Find Your People
Meet potential co-founders, collaborators, and lifelong friends
Launch Together
Many ships lead to long-term partnerships and successful products
Ready to Ship?
Join hundreds of builders committed to shipping every day. The journey starts December 1st!
Discord server coming soon! Follow the X community for updates.
Meet the Organizers
Shipmas is organized by builders who love shipping and want to help others do the same
Questions? Ideas? Reach out on X or join the community!