Launching the Ships Showcase — A Home for Community Projects
Launching the Ships Showcase
One of the best parts of building with AI is seeing what other people create. We wanted a place on 02Ship where community members could show off what they've shipped — so we built one.
The Ships Page
We added a new /ships route that displays community projects as a card grid. Each project gets its own detail page at /ships/[slug] with a full description, tech stack, links, and screenshots.
The data model is simple — each ship is a JSON file in content/ships/. No database, no CMS. Just drop in a file and it shows up on the site. This keeps the contribution barrier low and matches how the rest of 02Ship's content works.
Submit Your Project
We added a "Submit Project" button that links to a GitHub Issue template. Fill out the form — project name, description, URL, tech stack — and we turn it into a ship card. This keeps the process lightweight while giving us a review step before things go live.
The issue template lives at .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/ship-submission.yml and uses GitHub's structured form fields, so submissions come in clean and consistent.
First Featured Projects
We launched with two community projects:
- AI Uni Tutor — an AI-powered university tutoring tool
- Clawfy — another creative project from our community
Both are live on the ships page now. If you've built something with AI tools, we'd love to feature it.
Fixing Markdown Rendering
The ship detail pages support markdown in descriptions. Our initial render approach wasn't handling markdown properly — bold text, links, and lists weren't displaying correctly. We switched to the marked library for proper markdown-to-HTML conversion, and now project descriptions render cleanly.
What's Next
We want this to become the go-to gallery for projects built during our ship weeks and cohorts. If you've built something — big or small — submit it and join the showcase.