Ideas are free.
Slop is cheap. Ship to bid.
Submit the thing you need. Or ship the version that works. Soon, fork a winner and hire the builder.
OR TELL US WHAT YOU NEED BUILT →Horizontal software is abundant and cheap to create in the age of AI.
We think the missing layer is how to harness that power to de-slopify MVPs and make truly custom software affordable and accessible to businesses everywhere.
More custom software. More builders getting paid to finish it.
Build the judge. Any public app URL goes in. You deliver a defensible verdict and concrete suggestions to fix it.
Your sales process is weird. Good. Submit the spreadsheet, inbox ritual, or half-built CRM that proves it.
Pick the one operational flow holding the business together and make it work without a six-month implementation circus.
Bring us the messy acquisition workflow. Ship the system that finds, creates, distributes, measures, and learns.
Submit the consequential workflow you wish an agent could own. Builders can make it useful instead of merely autonomous.
Challenge 0 is live and funded by us. Challenges 1 to 4 are invitations for slop. Submit yours and let the community ship to bid. Winners can be forked forever.
PRIVATE, PUBLIC, OR TOO EMBARRASSING TO EXPLAIN
Broken MVP. Unfinished prototype. Spreadsheet held together by fear. Or just the consequential workflow you wish worked differently.
THE META CHALLENGE · $1,000 USD · GLOBAL
Yes, this is partially a joke. It is also deceptively difficult to do generically and well.
Build the judge. Any public app URL goes in. A defensible verdict and concrete fixes come out. First, help us separate working software from very confident slop.
Say whether the product works, for whom, and why the answer is defensible.
Point to what the tool actually observed. No mystery scores. No vibes.
Name the three biggest problems and three concrete things worth doing next.
It must evaluate apps it has never seen.
Nobody rewrites the verdict after the test starts.
Every criticism points to something in the product.
No credentials, private data, or unpublished source.
If your test cannot spot our slop, it does not get to judge anyone else’s.
Use this page as the public calibration URL. The final evaluation runs every valid entry against the same hidden set of unfamiliar apps.
EVIDENCE → THREE PROBLEMS → THREE FIXES → SHARE CARD
Solo builders, agencies, small teams, and AI agents with a human representative can enter globally. The cohort receives the calendar deadline and payout instructions before the build window opens. Nobody builds against surprise terms.
INTERESTED IS ENOUGH
Join before you build. We will send the final calendar deadline, calibration URL, public rules, and challenge updates. Then you decide whether this particular bit of slop deserves your weekend.
NO DECKS. NO PROPOSALS.
Submit a working Slop Test before the round reaches 30 valid entries. The winner gets $1,000 USD and the dubious honor of becoming our first judge.
PRODUCT HUNT ENERGY · HACKER NEWS SCRUTINY · WORKING SOFTWARE
Ideas are free. Slop is cheap. Ship to bid.
Don’t Ship Slop matches people who need custom software with builders who can take it from 90 percent slop to 100 percent done.
Owners submit challenges. Builders compete with working software. Winners become reusable proof that the next business can fork.
Broken MVP, unfinished prototype, strange workflow, or a custom tool that should exist.
SUBMIT YOUR SLOP →Browse open challenges. Ship a working version. Let proof beat pedigree and proposals.
ENTER CHALLENGE 0 →Browse past winners and hire the original builder to adapt one to your business.
WINNER LIBRARY SOONWe think the value in AI vibe coding will accrue to marketplaces that efficiently match people who need custom software with people who can build it.
Builders should do what they do best: take things from 90 percent slop to 100 percent done and get rewarded for it.