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Chris Messina
ShipLog — The changelog your users will actually read
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ShipLog lets you build a beautiful changelog that is effortless to update, optimized for distribution (SEO & social), and that makes it easy to celebrate the makers behind the features.
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Lucas Howard
Hey PH, Lucas from CommandBar here. This launch has been my pet project for the past few months. TLDR - we rage built a changelog-as-a-service product from the ground up to power our own changelog, and now we’re releasing it as a product. Backstory Late last year, I took over our changelog at CommandBar. We ship so much cool stuff, but our changelog had grown stale and cobwebby. I really wanted to do two things (1) figure out a way for our changelog never to fall out of date again and (2) celebrate the people actually building the stuff here. We ship so fast because we have a dope team, and I wanted them to get the credit they deserve. I went looking for a tool to help with this and didn’t find anything that met my bar. In doing this, I found soo many companies either without a changelog, one that had gone stale, or filled with super perfunctory “bug fixes and performance” improvements. Adding a changelog entry should be the last 0.1% effort after you’ve designed, built, tested, and launched the feature. If updating the changelog is annoying, you won’t do it. So I built the tool I wanted, and now we’re releasing it as a product :) A sleek, minimal, opinionated changelog editor. Everything you need, nothing you don’t. Fast. Sure, Lucas, but there’re other tools out there. How’s this different? We think there are also a ton of low-hanging fruit that we see in the very best (top 1%) changelogs (think Linear) that we think everyone should do, but that a lot of tools don’t make easy to do. Things like: - Fast live editing so writing an entry is like writing a tweet - Celebrate the builders behind the features - Maximize distribution (SEO optimized, automatically generated social images for LinkedIn/Twitter, and sharing built-in) so that it reaches more people. If you write a changelog and no reads it, does it make a sound? Try it out and help us make it better! We want to make this available to as many folks as possible, so we’ve got a really generous free tier, which will work for most team’s needs. Paid plan is coming soon but it’s gonna be really cheap. And if you’re ready to go full send on your changelog, you can hire me, the self-styled “Changelog guy” to maintain your changelog for you 🤓
Paul Thomson
“Changes ahoy!” This is so sick, Lucas! 👏👏
Lucas Howard
@thepaulthomson thank you sir!
Gianluca Cinellu
That could be extremely useful, writing changelog is almost as daunting as writing documentation! Congratulations on your launch! Will definitely give it a try :)
Jana Schellong
Let's ship it, log it, shiplog it 🙌 Really like that it highlights the makers and that it is SEO-optimized!
Rick Fan
Congrats! It's really useful, but there is a CSS bug when visit the demo on iOS safari, the right side of the page is blank.
Lucas Howard
@rick_fan thanks for the support and for the flag!
Abhilash Chowdhary
Going to give this a try, team ShipLog. Looks interesting.
Lucas Howard
@abhilash_chowdhary Please do! ... and share any/all feedback :)
Pierson Marks
How did you determine your pricing model? Free to $999 a month is a huge gap. I totally see the value of a changelog service, because trust me, I hate writing these. Could this integrate into a Github Action or even in my CI/CD pipeline so that I can automate the changelog creation and use the output for my "What's New" section on my website or app store update?
Lucas Howard
@piersonmarks The $999 plan is (kind of?) a joke. If you look at the details, it's me writing your changelog 😂! We do intend to have a premium plan though where the maintenance is way easier. Funny you should mention a GH integration. We've been discussing it internally because we would totally use it ourselves. Two examples — (1) something off of PR's; (2) ingest commit messages to draft a post automatically!
Pierson Marks
@lchanghoward totally! that's awesome, looking forward to that. And good luck on your launch today! I also launched Jellypod today (you're crushing us, keep it up!) but would love your support and feedback if any!
Erick Barron
Love it! shout out to the team producing not only quality products, but also content on their blogs.
Lucas Howard
@fractal Erick sir you have done your research! We try to make our blog content the best in the business :)
Finn Lobsien
Super exciting, I really love the help with distribution. Early stage gets to busy...
Han Wang
Congrats on the launch team!
Cristina Bunea
this has been SO fun to work on and I'm SO impressed with what @lchanghoward and the team shipped in such a short time (I know there's been maaany late nights involved in this launch 🌙)
Chris Messina
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Hunter
This is awesome — and makes sense as an extension of the CommandBar portfolio. Would be sweet if this could emit a feed that connected to a product's Product Hunt listing to incorporate the latest updates!
flo merian
> Would be sweet if this could emit a feed that connected to a product's Product Hunt listing to incorporate the latest updates! @chrismessina *great* idea, Chris. @jamie_sprowl started a related poll 8 months ago: "Would you share product updates on Product Hunt between launches?" IMHO it'd make much sense!
Geri Máté
I've been making changelogs in Markdown for the better part of 2 years now, and it's fair to say that I love Markdown's simplicity. What I found difficult to manage was the SEO part itself. Really like this solution where Markdown meets instant SEO features! Congratulations for launching it!
Shannon McIntosh
Great job lucas!
Lucas Howard
@shannon_mcintosh thanks Shannon!!!
Nuno Reis
Now that's the stuff! An interesting changelog that people actually read can be a massive adoption driver! I hope you have a great launch! 😁🚀
Dany
That's so nice, I could def make use of your app in the future, well played guys! GL on launch
Lucas Howard
@majorbaguette if you ever get going, I'd love to hear what you think 🙏
Shahmir Faisal
Congrats on the launch Lucas!
Maria Anosova 🔥
Congratulations 🎉
Lucas Howard
@maria_anosova Thank you!! It's been a ton of fun to build. Hope you give it a spin, and please share any feedback :)
Hrvoje Horvat
Great tool! I love it! Excellent job guys, and keep up the good work! :)
Luca Repetto
Wow Lucas! It's so cool. Keep up on this way. congrats on the launch