Production-ready
from day one.
Build your side project without spending weeks setting up a company. LaunchPort gives selected engineers the infrastructure and operating support to launch, accept customers, and build toward an independent company.
Built for engineers with side projects.
›I have a full-time job.
›I want to launch this week.
›I do not want to spend weeks setting everything up.
›I want real customers, not another unfinished prototype.
›I want a clear record of when and how I built my product.
›I am not ready to operate a standalone company.
›I still want to own what I create.
$ If this sounds familiar, LaunchPort was built for you.
How LaunchPort works.
A developer deployment pipeline for turning a side project into a real business. Each stage maps to a real review or a real operating step — not every accepted project receives every service.
- 01stage/applystep 1/7Tell us what you're building, where you are today, and what has prevented you from launching.
- 02stage/initial reviewstep 2/7We review the founder, product, market, employment situation, and potential platform risk.
- 03stage/buildstep 3/7Accepted founders can begin preparing their product and launch requirements.
- 04stage/production reviewstep 4/7Before production access, LaunchPort reviews ownership, employment restrictions, security, customer risk, and required documentation.
- 05stage/launchstep 5/7Approved projects can launch using the operating services agreed for their project.
- 06stage/get customersstep 6/7Test demand, collect real feedback, and build a commercial history.
- 07stage/graduatestep 7/7When the project reaches the agreed maturity or risk threshold, move it into its own company under the graduation terms agreed at acceptance.
What LaunchPort can provide.
Infrastructure
- Production deployment support
- Hosting configuration
- Databases
- Authentication
- Monitoring
- Domains
- Analytics
- Backups
- Technical documentation
Commercial operations
- Merchant of Record for approved projects
- Payments
- Subscription billing
- Refund administration
- Chargeback handling
- Product-level revenue reporting
- Customer support infrastructure
- Standard commercial workflows
Protection and records
- Employment document collection
- Employment restriction flagging
- Prior inventions record
- Contribution history
- Project activity logs
- Contractor IP documentation
- Open-source dependency records
- AI-assisted code provenance records
- Graduation readiness records
Fractional support
- Engineering
- Product management
- Design
- Growth
- Customer support
- Bookkeeping
- Legal support through approved professionals
- Security support
Your product should still be yours.
- +Product-specific code
- +Product-specific intellectual property
- +Brand
- +Domain
- +Product designs
- +Product roadmap
- +Product-specific content
- +Product-specific data, subject to customer agreements and applicable law
- ~Shared infrastructure
- ~Merchant of Record services
- ~Operating workflows
- ~Shared platform tools
- ~Risk controls
- ~Administrative support
- ~Graduation support
LaunchPort does not ask founders to hand over their entire idea simply to launch. The exact ownership, licensing, operating, and graduation terms are agreed before production deployment.
note · Your customer relationships and eligible product records are prepared for transfer during graduation, subject to customer agreements, privacy obligations, payment-provider rules, and applicable law.
Build with a cleaner record.
Side-project disputes often become difficult because nobody documented how, when, or where the product was created. LaunchPort helps selected founders create a structured record of their project from the beginning.
- +Employment agreement upload
- +Invention assignment review flags
- +Moonlighting policy review flags
- +Prior inventions disclosure
- +Work-device declaration
- +Work-time declaration
- +Contribution timestamps
- +Repository history
- +Contractor contribution records
- +External library records
- +AI-assisted code records
Build under LaunchPort. Graduate into your own company.
- ›Revenue growth
- ›Customer volume
- ›External fundraising
- ›Hiring employees
- ›Enterprise contracts
- ›Regulatory exposure
- ›Security requirements
- ›Payment or refund risk
- ›Product liability
- ›The project becoming operationally independent
- ›Company formation
- ›Code repository transfer
- ›Domain transfer
- ›Infrastructure migration
- ›Customer communication
- ›Eligible data transfer
- ›Payment migration
- ›Contract transition
- ›Financial reconciliation
- ›Documentation handover
We do not accept every project.
- +Serious software products
- +Clear customer problems
- +Founders capable of building or managing the product
- +Low-complexity B2B or consumer software
- +Products with a realistic path to customers
- +Founders willing to maintain clean records and respond quickly
- ◐Financial services
- ◐Lending
- ◐Healthcare
- ◐Children's products
- ◐Gambling
- ◐Crypto custody
- ◐Products that hold customer funds
- ◐Highly regulated marketplaces
- ◐Products using sensitive personal information
- ◐Products with unclear ownership
- ◐Products that conflict directly with a founder's employment
LaunchPort operates commercial and production infrastructure for approved projects. That creates responsibility for customers, payments, security, refunds, and platform risk. We review every application before granting production access.