The Shiplore blog

Notes on building in public & marketing for makers.

FEATURED · GUIDE

Maker marketing, decoded

Why building in public works — and why most makers still fail at it

Consistency beats brilliance on social — but consistency is exactly what a heads-down builder can't fake. The psychology behind why shipping in public compounds, the four failure modes, and a system that survives your busiest sprint.

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The Shiplore team

12 min read · Jan 2026

STRATEGY

The commit-to-content pipeline, explained

How an AI agent turns a raw git diff into a post that sounds human — every step, demystified.

8 min read · Jan 2026

VOICE

Your voice is a set of rules. Here is how to find them.

Lowercase starts, no hashtags, numbers over adjectives — the small patterns that make writing feel like you.

6 min read · Jan 2026

GROWTH

Posting at the right time still matters in 2026

What we learned analyzing thousands of dev-audience posts about when your followers actually read.

5 min read · Dec 2025

CRAFT

Write the lesson, not the changelog

Nobody reshares a version bump. They reshare the three hours of pain behind the one-line fix.

4 min read · Dec 2025

PRODUCT

Why we put a human in every loop

Autonomous drafting, manual approval. The design principle behind the Sunday ritual.

7 min read · Dec 2025

FOUNDERS

Marketing is a tax on great products. We are automating it.

The best tools lose to the loudest ones. A short manifesto on closing the distribution gap.

5 min read · Nov 2025

The Sunday Ship

One email each week: a maker-marketing idea you can use, and what we shipped. No fluff.