Terms of Service

Start & Ship (“the kit”) is created and maintained by an individual operator (“we,” “us”). Checkout and payment are handled by Polar (polar.sh) acting as the merchant of record — Polar processes your payment, issues your receipt, and handles applicable sales tax or VAT. Your purchase is also subject to Polar's own terms and privacy policy.

The kit is a digital product: a production-ready Next.js codebase for content and review websites, plus documentation, delivered as read access to a private GitHub repository. A GitHub account is required to receive it. It is source code for technical builders — not a hosted service, not a page builder, and not a business-in-a-box.

The Founder Pro tier additionally includes three niche research dossiers, delivered by email within 7 days of purchase. Dossiers are research, not guarantees — see clause 07.

Repository access is granted automatically to the GitHub account you connect at checkout, normally within minutes of payment. If delivery fails for any reason, contact us and we'll sort it out or refund you — whichever you prefer.

Your purchase grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the kit's code:

Founder and Founder Pro: build and operate an unlimited number of websites that you own.
Agency: everything above, plus white-label use for an unlimited number of client projects.

What no tier permits: reselling, sublicensing, or redistributing the kit or any substantial portion of it as a template, starter kit, boilerplate, or similar competing product — free or paid. The code remains our copyright; websites you build with it are yours.

“Lifetime updates” means every update we publish to the kit ships to the same repository, tagged, at no additional cost, for as long as the product exists. It is a promise about access to updates — not a commitment to any specific future feature, and not a maintenance SLA.

All sales are final. Source code can't be un-downloaded, so a blanket refund window on a digital product would just be an invitation to clone the repo and ask for the money back — that's not the kind of trust-building this brand does. The one exception is us: if delivery itself fails (Polar charges you but repo access never arrives), email us and we'll fix it or refund you immediately, no argument. Refunds that do happen are reported (in aggregate, never with your identity) on our public revenue ledger.

We make zero promises or predictions of traffic, search rankings, AI citations, revenue, or income of any kind. Nobody honest can. Any figures shown on our site are our own historical results, dated and verifiable — they are not projections of yours.

The kit is provided as is, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. You are responsible for your own sites, including their content, legal compliance (FTC disclosure, GDPR, and similar), and affiliate-program compliance — the kit ships components that help, but using them correctly is on you.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim arising from the kit or these terms is limited to the amount you paid for it. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits or lost data.

Prices are stated on the site and may change over time — launch pricing terms, where offered, are pre-registered and honored as published. Price changes never affect a purchase you've already made.

Don't use the kit to build sites that are unlawful, deceptive, or designed to spam. We may decline to sell to, or revoke the license of (with a full refund), anyone using the kit for such purposes.

We may update these terms; the effective date above always reflects the current version, and material changes will be noted on this page. These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the state of the seller's residence.

Questions, refunds, delivery issues: hello@startandship.com