Shipping Friday is an event that was first started on May 8, 2020 via Twitter by founder and former CEO of Mixpanel, Suhail Doshi. The weekly event involves Suhail posting a tweet asking for new products, and sharing his favorite. ^[3]

Shipping Friday was formed by Suhail Doshi as a way to showcase some of his favorite products that shipped the week of.

The idea was first publicly shared on May 8, 2020, in a tweet, simply asking his 48,000 followers,

The tweet was met with many positive responses; as many small tech startup founders replied with their new products.

A few hours later.

Suhail followed up with another tweet, fully introducing the concept that would shine light on the newest products.

The first weeks winner garnered over 40,000 downloads since it was shared by Doshi.

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