What is shipping?
There is no perfect definition to shipping, but it is the process of actually making your project sharable. This is the most important part of your project, almost as important as the entire project itself.
When you first make something, it lives as files on your computer. This is bad.
It’s not real and in the world. Only YOU can access it, nobody else can see it. When you look back at the project a few years from now, it’ll be very, very difficult to remember anything about it!
Shipping can be boiled down to three concepts.
These are the MINIMUM for shipping anything, even outside Hack Club.
- Document what your project actually is
- Understandable and organized
- Public, and online
More information?
The specifics of shipping a project depends on the type of project you are building.
More specfically, Hardware and Software.
Find more about shipping hardware projects here.
Find more about shipping software projects here.