Live on the web6
- Your app or site live on the web · Web, Sites, Services
- Your domain and DNS · Mac, Web, Sites
- A landing page designed to convert
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launchpad gets your app live with a professional production setup: hosting, payments, analytics and crash reports, with every app on one dashboard.
$49 once when you're ready to ship the rest
How it works
How it works
An illustration of one run with a sample app, Fernweh. In Claude Code, the command /launchpad:onboard is typed, and Claude answers: Found your app: iOS, Android and web. I’m getting it ready for real users. Then the production checklist ticks off its 8 areas one by one — live on the web; app stores and downloads; security and data; see how it is used; legal and trust; payments and costs; builds and releases; mission control and safety — 43 items in all. One row waits for your OK: Apple's $99 developer fee, approved with one press. At the end: Live, fernweh.app; Testers, build sent; Payments, checkout works.
From builders
Started with launchpad to launch some of my projects for Zenwave and my sales consultancy. It’s all I use now, and it’s the best at making sure that my projects are ready for my audience. Incredibly easy!
Michael MckeownBusiness Sales Consultant and Founder
I would not have even deployed my app before I knew about launchpad. It took all the stress away of managing everything when it was live, and I didn’t have to do any research of my own.
Swapnil PatilEngineer
I just make apps one by one, and launchpad literally does the rest. As soon as I finish testing it on my iPhone, I tell launchpad to ship it, and after a couple hours it’s finished and pending for Apple approval. Just amazing.
Nikhil ThakurVibe-coder
What it sets up
The checklist has 50 items. launchpad sets up each one, or checks it and keeps it in Mission Control until it passes.
Handled by launchpad
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A launchpad key unlocks 28 more items in the full checklist.
Unlock it · $49launchpad asks you before it submits to a store, spends money or changes your domain.
Costs
You pay the lowest possible fees on top of launchpad. The only required fees are the ones Apple and Google charge every developer. Pick what you're shipping.
Shipping an iOS app costs one fee: Apple Developer Program, $99 a year.
Apple charges this fee to every developer. Everything else runs on free plans.
Claude CodeRuns launchpad: it reads your repo and sets it up
GitHubYour code, the builds (Actions) and their secrets
then $4 a month per seat for a private repository with staging and production
Apple Developer ProgramTestFlight, the App Store and notarized Mac apps
GitHub macOS build minutesPrivate repos only — free on public repos or on your own Mac
then $0.062 a minute past the included minutes
EAS BuildWhen an Expo app builds on EAS instead of your GitHub Actions
then $19 a month past the free plan's builds, or to skip the low-priority queuethen $199 a month for a team plan, with more build credit each month
SentryWhen you turn crash reporting on
Firebase CrashlyticsWhen the app already uses Firebase
RevenueCatWhen your mobile app sells subscriptions or unlocks
Google Auth PlatformWhen your app has "Sign in with Google"
Once, before your first release
Shipping an Android app costs one fee: Google Play Console, $25 once.
Google charges this fee to every developer. Everything else runs on free plans.
Claude CodeRuns launchpad: it reads your repo and sets it up
GitHubYour code, the builds (Actions) and their secrets
then $4 a month per seat for a private repository with staging and production
FirebaseApp Distribution: Android builds to your testers
Google Play ConsoleYour public listing on the Play Store
EAS BuildWhen an Expo app builds on EAS instead of your GitHub Actions
then $19 a month past the free plan's builds, or to skip the low-priority queuethen $199 a month for a team plan, with more build credit each month
SentryWhen you turn crash reporting on
Firebase CrashlyticsWhen the app already uses Firebase
RevenueCatWhen your mobile app sells subscriptions or unlocks
Google Auth PlatformWhen your app has "Sign in with Google"
Before your first release
Shipping a Mac app costs one fee: Apple Developer Program, $99 a year.
Apple charges this fee to every developer. Everything else runs on free plans.
Claude CodeRuns launchpad: it reads your repo and sets it up
GitHubYour code, the builds (Actions) and their secrets
then $4 a month per seat for a private repository with staging and production
Apple Developer ProgramTestFlight, the App Store and notarized Mac apps
CloudflareHosts sites and Mac downloads, and runs your DNS
GitHub macOS build minutesPrivate repos only — free on public repos or on your own Mac
then $0.062 a minute past the included minutes
A domain nameWhen you want your own address
SentryWhen you turn crash reporting on
Lemon SqueezyWhen you sell a Mac app with a paywall
Before your first release
Shipping a web app costs $0 on top of launchpad.
Every account it needs has a free plan.
Claude CodeRuns launchpad: it reads your repo and sets it up
GitHubYour code, the builds (Actions) and their secrets
then $4 a month per seat for a private repository with staging and production
VercelHosts your web app, with a preview per branch
then $20 a month per seat once the app takes money
A domain nameWhen you want your own address
SentryWhen you turn crash reporting on
PostHogWhen you turn analytics on
StripeWhen your web app or SaaS takes money
ResendWhen your app sends email and has no email service yet
then $20 a month past the free plan
Google Auth PlatformWhen your app has "Sign in with Google"
Cloudflare TurnstileWhen your app has a sign-up or a public form
Upstash RedisWhen you choose it to rate-limit your routes
Live when setup finishes
Shipping a site costs $0 on top of launchpad.
Every account it needs has a free plan.
Claude CodeRuns launchpad: it reads your repo and sets it up
GitHubYour code, the builds (Actions) and their secrets
then $4 a month per seat for a private repository with staging and production
CloudflareHosts sites and Mac downloads, and runs your DNS
A domain nameWhen you want your own address
PostHogWhen you turn analytics on
Live when setup finishes
Shipping a backend service costs $0 on top of launchpad.
Every account it needs has a free plan.
Claude CodeRuns launchpad: it reads your repo and sets it up
GitHubYour code, the builds (Actions) and their secrets
then $4 a month per seat for a private repository with staging and production
Cloudflare WorkersRuns your backend: an API, a queue, scheduled jobs
then $5 a month once your API outgrows the free plan
ResendWhen your app sends email and has no email service yet
then $20 a month past the free plan
Upstash RedisWhen you choose it to rate-limit your routes
Google Cloud RunWhen the service is not a fit for Workers — a Node server, Python, Go or a Dockerfile
Live when setup finishes
launchpad finds these in your code and shows you where to set a spending limit.
Each price is the platform's own published price. launchpad asks you before it pays or signs up for anything.
Stacks
20 more are recognized and scored.
Ships it Knows it: launchpad scores it and does not ship it yet
Is your stack missing? The readiness scorecard still grades it. Tell us what you're building.
Price
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Your first build
Freeone app
Pay once · No subscription
launchpad
$49once
The price is $49 for the first 1,000 buyers and $129 after that.
launchpad runs on your own Claude subscription. It has no monthly fee.
Everything your first build leaves out, for every app:
Questions before buying? Ask support →Not sure it fits? Search your stack →

Sid KariaMade launchpad
I'm Sid. I've spent over a decade in tech, and I built launchpad because my own apps kept getting stuck at the launch part.
Stuck? Support works through a problem with you and fixes what launchpad got wrong.
App builders bill you every montha month
Monthly, with launchpad$0/mo
launchpad is $49 once and runs on the Claude plan you already have. Still yours: Apple $99 a year · Google Play $25 once
Monthly list prices, checked Oct 15, 2026.
How to install
Pick where you use Claude. You do this once, then run one command in each app.
# Once, anywhere
/plugin marketplace add shiplaunchpad/launchpad/plugin install launchpad@launchpad# Then in your app's folder: your first build
/launchpad:onboardPaste one line at a time and press Enter.
launchpad needs Node.js 20 or newer on your computer.
Privacy
Your data is secure
One of them is off unless you say yes.
Claude Code reads your project on your computer, the way it already does. launchpad works inside that session.
launchpad never reports:
An update check
Once a day, it reads our public list of releases. It sends nothing about you.
This happens at most once a day, and whenever you ask. It sends nothing about you. It reads one public file on our site, the list of releases, the same way a browser does.
A license check
About once a day, it confirms your key with our payment provider, through our license server. It never sends your code or your files.
This happens when you activate your key, about once a day while you use launchpad, and when Claude opens one of its instructions. It sends your key to our license server, which passes it to the payment provider to confirm it, or to the payment provider directly when our server can't be reached. It also sends this computer's name and a short one-way code made from its id the same way when you activate, so you and support can tell which computers use the key. It sends your key, this computer's activation, a one-way code made from this computer's id and the version to our license server. Our license server sends launchpad, and each instruction Claude opens, only to the computer your key is on. It never sends your code or your files.
launchpad's own usage analyticsOff unless you say yes
If you say yes, it sends which stacks launchpad found and which checklist items worked. It never sends your code, names or paths.
You can turn them off again whenever you like. Ask Claude to run launchpad telemetry off.
This happens only if you said yes, at the end of setting up a project. It sends anonymous usage analytics about launchpad to our license server. They list the stacks launchpad found and the checklist items that worked. They never contain your code, names or paths.
Mission Control asks you once, after you answer the questions for your first app. If you say not now, it asks once more a week later, and never again. It sends its usage analytics only if you answer yes.
The usage analytics contain these 9 items:
The usage analytics never contain your code, file or folder names, paths, project, app or company names, keys, tokens or other secrets, email addresses, your license key, anything that tells one machine or person from another.
Before you decide, ask Claude to run launchpad telemetry show, and it prints exactly what launchpad would send.
Everything else goes from your computer to your own accounts (GitHub, your host and your stores) when you ask launchpad to act. Read the privacy page.
You can undo launchpad's changes to your project files with one command. It puts back the files that launchpad wrote in its last run, and it leaves alone any file you have edited since. It cannot undo a deploy, a DNS change or a payment, so launchpad asks you before each of those. Ask Claude to run launchpad undo.
What people ask before installing. For anything else, write to support@shiplaunchpad.com.
launchpad is a Claude Code plugin that takes the apps you build with AI from your laptop to live: hosting, payments, analytics, crash reports, a landing page, and one dashboard for all of them. You pay $49 once and use it on unlimited projects.
It can do any one piece if you ask. What it doesn't have is the list. launchpad brings a 50-item production checklist, checks each item on your app, and sets every app up the same way, so they all show on one dashboard. It also carries the vendor steps that are easy to get wrong, each one checked against the vendor's current official page. And it asks before anything costs money.
Yes. launchpad runs inside Claude Code on your existing Claude subscription, so you do not pay for a second AI subscription. It also needs Node.js 20 or newer on your computer, which you can install from nodejs.org.
Yes. launchpad reads the project and asks you plain questions. You install Claude Code and sign in to your own accounts when launchpad asks.
Apple is $99 a year for iOS and Mac apps. A Play Store listing is $25 once. A personal account opened after 13 November 2023 also runs a 14-day closed test with 12 testers first. Vercel is $20 a month per seat once a web app takes money. GitHub, Firebase and Cloudflare are free to start. See every account and fee by platform.
Email support@shiplaunchpad.com and attach the report that launchpad prints. The report is safe to send, and it answers most questions. Never send your whole license key. Its last four characters are enough. Sales are final. Support works through a problem with you and fixes what launchpad got wrong.
Yes. One key works for unlimited projects. You can activate it on up to 2 machines.
They do not come to us. launchpad runs on your computer, inside Claude Code, which reads your code the way it already does. Your keys go from your computer's keychain (an encrypted file on Windows and Linux) into your own GitHub and store accounts, where your builds run. You do not create an account with us. launchpad sends us its own usage analytics only if you say yes.
launchpad works today on macOS, in Claude Code on your own computer. It doesn't run in cloud sessions, such as Claude Code on the web, in WSL, or on Windows without Git Bash. On Windows with Git Bash and on Linux it is untested, so ask support before you buy, and we'll check that it fits your setup. Web, Android and backend apps build on GitHub's own machines, whatever computer you use. iPhone and Mac apps need a Mac to build. On a Mac, launchpad suggests building on your own Mac, which costs nothing. On Windows or Linux, GitHub's Mac machines build them.
Search for your stack in the stack finder on this page before you buy. After you activate, the readiness scorecard says what launchpad ships for your app and grades the parts that apply.
It tells you what it found before it changes anything, and when it isn't sure, it asks you instead of guessing. You can undo launchpad's changes to your project files with one command.
It gets your app ready for review and onto TestFlight, but Apple reviews every app itself and nobody can skip that. Before you submit, launchpad checks the rules behind common first rejections: account deletion inside the app, Sign in with Apple, a reason for every permission, the privacy manifest, and how the app looks on an iPad. Then it shows you exactly what to press in App Store Connect. Apple reviews most apps within 24 to 48 hours.
Your app stays there. launchpad recognizes 21 hosts and app builders, including Lovable, Bolt and Netlify. It keeps the deploy you already have and does not publish a second copy. The rest of the checklist still applies, and you can switch hosts later.
The stack list includes backends. 12 ship today: Cloudflare Worker, Hono, itty-router, Express, Fastify, NestJS, Koa, hapi, Elysia, Go HTTP server, Python web service and Containerised service. 9 more (Ruby on Rails app, Django app, WordPress site, Laravel app, Phoenix app, .NET project, JVM project, Deno app and Wasp app) are recognized and scored, and launchpad does not ship them yet. Search for yours.
launchpad looks for a new version at most once a day, and whenever you ask. When a new version is available, Mission Control shows a banner that lists the changes. You click Update, launchpad updates itself through Claude Code, and you type /reload-plugins in Claude Code to load the new version. launchpad never updates on its own. Your key comes with all 1.x updates included. 2.0 is a paid upgrade, discounted for owners.
Three things go to us or our payment provider: an update check, a license check and launchpad's own usage analytics (only if you say yes). None of them contains your code, your project names or your apps' keys. Everything else goes from your computer to your own accounts when you ask launchpad to act. See what each one sends.
Yes. You can undo launchpad's changes to your project files with one command. It puts back the files that launchpad wrote in its last run, and it leaves alone any file you have edited since. It cannot undo a deploy, a DNS change or a payment, so launchpad asks you before each of those.
Every vendor step and waiting time in launchpad points to the vendor's official page and the date it was checked, and updates bring the changes as vendors make them. Every 1.x update is included with your key. launchpad asks before anything costs money, so a vendor's change can never make launchpad start a charge without you knowing.
Install takes two lines and your key. Your readiness scorecard comes with the first run.
Questions before buying? Ask support →Not sure it fits? Search your stack →