Terms

The rules for joining Ship or Extinct and launching before the meteor hits.

Last updated: June 03, 2026

1. Agreement

By accessing or using Ship or Extinct ("the Service"), you agree to these Terms of Service.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

2. Who we are

Ship or Extinct ("we," "us," or "our") operates the website and service available at ship-or-extinct.com.

You can reach us at:

Email: hi@ship-or-extinct.com
Website: ship-or-extinct.com

3. What the Service is

Ship or Extinct is a paid accountability challenge for founders who commit to launching one startup within a fixed deadline.

The Service may include a landing page, paid access, email-based login, a commitment setup flow, a founder dino, a public username, a startup commitment, a countdown page, and a public founder profile showing whether the founder shipped or went extinct.

The Service is not a course, coaching program, investment service, legal service, financial advisory service, or business consulting service.

We do not guarantee that your startup will succeed, generate revenue, receive funding, gain users, or achieve any specific business result.

4. Your account

You must provide accurate and complete information when using the Service.

You are responsible for activity on your account and for keeping access to your email, login credentials, and connected accounts secure.

You may not create multiple accounts to bypass rules, pricing, restrictions, deadlines, or access limits.

Sign-in may be handled through email verification codes, magic links, OAuth providers, or other authentication methods supported by the Service.

You must use the same email address for login that you used during checkout, unless we provide another supported way to verify access.

5. Payment

Access to Ship or Extinct may require payment.

Payments are processed through third-party providers such as Stripe. By making a purchase, you agree to the price, billing terms, and payment details shown at checkout.

Unless stated otherwise at checkout, payment grants access to the specific challenge, product, or feature described at the time of purchase.

Pricing, included features, and access rules may change over time. The price displayed at checkout is the price that applies to your purchase.

We do not store full card numbers.

6. Refunds

Payments are generally non-refundable.

You are paying for access to a deadline-driven accountability product, not for a guaranteed business outcome.

We may issue a refund at our discretion in limited cases, including:

Duplicate charges for the same purchase
Technical failures that prevent you from accessing the Service after payment
Any situation where a refund is required by applicable law

To request a refund, email hi@ship-or-extinct.com with your account email and purchase details within a reasonable time after the charge.

7. Commitment rules

After joining, you commit to one active startup challenge.

The core rules are:

One founder dino
One active startup
One deadline
No pause
No reset
No swapping the active startup after the countdown has started

Your founder dino is chosen during setup and may not be changed afterwards.

Your countdown starts only when you actively start the countdown inside the Service.

To complete the challenge, you must ship before the deadline expires.

"Shipped" means that your startup is publicly accessible in some real form. This may include a live product, landing page, waitlist, public beta, paid beta, launch post, or another publicly accessible URL accepted by the Service.

A private document, internal prototype, hidden repository, or unfinished idea does not count as shipped.

If you miss the deadline without an accepted public launch:

Your dino may be marked as extinct
Your active startup may be marked as fossilized or extinct
Your public founder profile may show the result
Your challenge history may remain visible as part of the public accountability experience
You may be blocked from starting another active startup challenge unless we later provide a supported way to do so

Extinction is part of the product experience. It is not a technical account deletion.

You may still be able to log in and view your account after extinction, but your ability to create or start another challenge may be limited.

8. Public accountability

Ship or Extinct is built around public accountability.

By using the Service, you understand that certain information may be displayed publicly, including:

Your public username
Your founder profile
Your chosen dino
Your active startup name
Your startup description or URL if provided
Your challenge deadline
Your countdown status
Your shipped status
Your extinct or fossilized status
Previously shipped startups if shown by the Service

Public pages may be accessible at URLs such as:

/f/your-username

Information you choose to publish may be indexed by search engines, shared by other users, or captured outside the Service.

You are responsible for the information you choose to make public.

9. Optional social links

The Service may allow you to add optional social links, such as X or LinkedIn.

If you add a social link, you confirm that it belongs to you or that you have permission to use it.

We may display social links on your public profile or use them to support public accountability features.

You can choose not to add social links.

10. Community conduct

You agree not to:

Harass, threaten, abuse, or impersonate other users or our team
Post spam, scams, misleading content, or malicious links
Upload or share illegal, hateful, abusive, or harmful content
Use the Service for unlawful purposes
Attempt to disrupt, scrape, overload, reverse engineer, or exploit the Service
Bypass access controls, payment rules, challenge rules, or security protections
Misrepresent your startup, launch status, identity, or achievements

We may remove content, restrict features, suspend access, or terminate accounts that violate these rules or harm the Service, our users, or our community.

11. Your content

You keep ownership of content you submit to the Service, including profile information, usernames, startup names, descriptions, domains, launch links, social links, and other materials.

You grant Ship or Extinct a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, display, reproduce, distribute, and adapt your content as needed to operate, improve, and promote the Service.

This includes showing your public founder profile, startup commitment, challenge status, shipped startups, extinct status, and public activity on Ship or Extinct.

You represent that you have the rights to any content you upload, submit, or publish through the Service.

You must not upload or submit content that infringes someone else's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights.

12. Third-party services

The Service may integrate with third-party services, such as payment processors, authentication providers, email providers, analytics tools, hosting providers, storage providers, or social platforms.

Your use of third-party services may be subject to their own terms and privacy policies.

We are not responsible for third-party services, their availability, their content, or their actions.

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available."

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, availability, accuracy, and reliability.

We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or available at all times.

We do not guarantee any startup, business, revenue, funding, audience, launch, or personal productivity outcome.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ship or Extinct will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, loss of goodwill, business interruption, or failed startup outcomes.

Our total liability for any claim related to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us for access to the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

15. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, break challenge rules, create risk for the Service or users, fail to pay required fees, or use the Service in a harmful or unlawful way.

Sections that should reasonably survive termination will continue to apply, including payment terms, refund rules, content licenses, disclaimers, liability limits, and dispute-related provisions.

16. Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time.

If we make material changes, we will post the updated version on this page and update the "Last updated" date.

Your continued use of the Service after the updated Terms become effective means you accept the changes.

17. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws applicable to the operator of Ship or Extinct, unless applicable consumer protection laws require otherwise.

If a specific jurisdiction is required, it may be stated here once the legal entity operating Ship or Extinct has been finalized.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms?

Email us at hi@ship-or-extinct.com.