Ship It
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Ship it is the developer battle cry. It means 'this is good enough, let's deploy it.' It's the opposite of perfectionism — the philosophy that a working product in users' hands beats a perfect product still in development. The best code is code that's actually being used. Just... maybe run the tests first.
Real Talk
"Ship it" represents a development philosophy prioritizing delivery speed over perfection. It's associated with continuous deployment, iterative development, and the startup ethos of getting to market quickly. The phrase encourages overcoming analysis paralysis while implicitly trusting the safety net of CI/CD, monitoring, and rollback capabilities.
When You'll Hear This
"The feature is done — ship it!" / "We can iterate later, just ship it for now."
Related Terms
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Deployment is like Continuous Delivery but with no one at the door — the pizza delivers itself the moment it's ready.
Deploy
Deploying is taking your code from your computer and making it live on the internet for real users. Before: only you can see it.
MVP (MVP)
An MVP is the simplest version of your product that actually works well enough for real users to use and for you to learn from.
Production
Production is the real thing — the live app that actual users are using right now. It's the opposite of your practice environment.