What shipped, and when.
Notable changes only — not every commit, not every bugfix.
- 2026-09-12
The Genesis grid is real
20 pads, seeded and live — hand-picked builders from the wider indie/OSS community plus a few fresh off Product Hunt. runs.space is the actual homepage now, not a coming-soon page: the live track, the tiers, everything. If your project is already reserved, claim your pad. If it isn't, launch your own — it's free.
- 2026-09-11
Every rocket gets a picture
Rocket pages and the live race grid were text-only until now. Submitting a rocket automatically grabs a preview image straight from your product's own page — no upload, no required field — and it shows up on your rocket's page and as a thumbnail on the track. Paste your own logo/screenshot URL any time to override it, from launch or from Mission Control.
- 2026-09-10
A real type system
Four purpose-built display faces replaced the single default font: a hero headline face for the big moments, a wordmark face for the RUNS.SPACE logo everywhere it appears, a navbar/footer face for chrome, and a distinct body face for every paragraph. Header and footer now line up on the same edges as the page body instead of running full-bleed, and a CSS layering bug that made the mobile menu silently ignore its own hide/show rules got found and fixed along the way.
- 2026-09-09
The money rail
Hangar Pass, Runner tickets and subscriptions, Signal Boost, and Re-entry Burn all went live end to end — Stripe Checkout, webhook fulfilment, and a payments ledger that can't double-grant on a replayed event. Runner never adds fuel to your own rocket; it buys a bigger daily budget to support other rockets, one 5× vote a week, and a share of the prize pool.
- 2026-09-09
Rocket pages get their own address
Every rocket that reaches Orbit — or buys a Hangar Pass — gets a permanent page at [yourslug].runs.space, with its own minimal nav so it reads as your page, not a mirror of the whole site.
- 2026-09-04
The Space Race begins
runs.space pivoted from a static directory to a live race: submit a rocket, fuel other people's, and climb from Earth to Orbit at 500 fuel. Nothing dies here — a finished rocket keeps its page forever.