Applications close 12 September 2026

Reticle XV

Fifteen products. One stage. Reticle XV is where the teams building the best software of this cycle put it in front of everyone, verified flow by flow, with a feature written about it and a launch behind it.

You built something that works. This is where the room finds out.

Put your product forward

Reticle is pulled down 26k+ times a month and starred by 334 developers. That is the room your product walks into, and it is the same room every week.

The fifteen

15 places

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Fifteen places, applications close 12 September 2026, and then this closes for good.

Your moment

Everyone claims their product works. Fifteen will prove it.

The internet is full of software that demos beautifully and falls over on a Tuesday. Saying yours is different changes nothing. Showing the flows, the failures it caught and the fixes, in public, with Reticle reading what actually happened underneath, changes everything about how your product is heard.

That is what a place in the XV is. Not a badge. A verified case for your product, published loudly, while everyone else is still saying trust us.

Everyone else

  • A landing page that says fast, simple, reliable.
  • A launch that lasts one afternoon.
  • Screenshots. Adjectives. Trust us.

The XV

  • A feature written about your product by people who read the code.
  • A run of coverage, not one afternoon.
  • Every claim backed by a run anyone can look at.

What we put behind you

The full weight of Reticle, aimed at one product. Yours.

A feature, not a logo slot

We write your product the way a magazine writes a cover story. What you built, why it is hard, what Reticle proved about it, flow by flow. Published on reticle.sh under your name and pushed through every channel we own.

A launch we treat as our own

Your release day becomes a Reticle release day. Posts, threads, video, the founders talking about your product to their audience. For that week, our megaphone is your megaphone.

A place on the XV Scoreboard

Measured on how deep you got Reticle wired in: flows under verification, runs in your pipeline, how much of your release now moves with proof behind it. At the end we publish the standings and the team that went deepest gets the loudest week of the entire program. Nobody is ranked on how many bugs we found in their product.

The people who built Reticle, in your channel

Not support. The founders. Bugs you hit get fixed in days, features you need get built or get a straight answer, and the full enterprise platform is switched on for your whole team for the run, at no cost.

What we ask

Three things. All of them fit in a sentence.

Ship it verified

Reticle running against your real product, on the flows your users actually pay you for. That is what makes the story worth reading.

Let us put you on stage

A feature, a launch post, a video, your logo on the XV page. You approve every word, and then we take it everywhere.

Show up while it runs

One call at the start, one at the end, and answers in the channel when we ask. That is the whole commitment.

Who gets in

Fifteen places. We are not counting your headcount.

A solo founder shipping every day beats a hundred-person company that needs a quarter to approve a quote. We are picking on the product and on whether you will stand behind it in public, and nothing else.

  • You ship a web product that real people use every week.
  • You are proud enough of it to want it in front of a much bigger room.
  • A coding agent writes a serious share of your code, and you are the one left checking it.
  • You can say yes to being featured without waiting on four other people.

How it runs

Apply, get read, get the call, take the stage.

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Put your product forward

The form below. Ten minutes, no deck, no warm intro required. You get your application number the second you submit. Applications close 12 September 2026.

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We read every word

By hand. We are looking for a product people already use and a team who can stand behind it in public.

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The call

A short call with the founders. If it is a fit, your place in the 15 is confirmed on that call and your card goes out the same day.

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The spotlight

The run opens 28 September 2026 and lasts one month. You ship with Reticle inside, we write, film and publish the whole way, and the scoreboard goes up at the end.

What a place costs

Everything below is what our enterprise customers pay for. The fifteen pay nothing.

Reticle Enterprise

Nothing

No invoice, no card, no fee at the end. The full enterprise platform is switched on for your whole team for the run, and the feature, the launch, the community and the introductions are not for sale at any price.

Take a place

  • Reticle Enterprise license

    The full platform, not the free SDK. Flow memory that survives a restart, the run infrastructure, the failure clustering, all of it switched on for your whole team.

    Included

  • Reticle Startup license after the run

    When the run ends you do not fall off a cliff. XV companies keep going on the startup license, at the price a startup can actually carry.

    Included

  • Public collaboration with Reticle

    The feature, the launch post, the video, the scoreboard. Our channels pointed at your product, with our name next to yours.

    Included

  • The 15-founder private community

    One room, fifteen founders, closed for good once the places are filled. The people in it are the reason most of them will say yes.

    Invite only

  • Founder-to-founder introductions

    We make the intros inside the fifteen and outside it. Customers, design partners, investors, the people who unblock the thing you are stuck on.

    Included

The application

Ten minutes now. The stage from 28 September 2026.

Write it the way you would say it out loud. We are reading for the product, not the prose.

The team

Step 1 of 2

One short step left. Nothing is sent until the end.

Straight answers

The questions everyone asks before applying.

Nothing. The enterprise platform is switched on for your whole team for the run, with the feature, the launch, the video and the community on top, and there is no invoice at the end of it. Places in the XV are not for sale at any price, which is the only reason being in one means anything.
Applications close 12 September 2026. The run opens 28 September 2026 and lasts one month, and we make calls the whole way through, so the 15 can fill before the closing date.
No. Everyone gets an application number the moment they submit, and that number is your place in the reading pile, not a place in the 15. We read all of them and pick the products that deserve the stage. Applying early still helps, because we start making calls long before applications close.
You approve every word and every frame before anything goes out. Your product, your story, your veto. We just make sure it is told properly and heard widely.
Reticle runs inside the browser against your running app, so what sits behind it matters far less than you would expect. If there is genuinely something it cannot see, we would rather find that on the call than halfway through your feature.
Depth of integration, nothing else: flows under verification, runs wired into your pipeline, how much of your release rides on proof by the end. It is a measure of how far you took Reticle, not of what was wrong with your product, and bug counts are never published or compared. All of it comes from your own runs and you watch your own numbers the whole way. The team on top gets a dedicated feature: their product, their story, their people, everywhere we can put it.
That is the best possible timing. A launch with a verified product behind it and the whole XV audience watching is a very different launch from the one you were about to have on your own.