I created one of the first "Changelog as a service" apps back in 2014. It was ugly, and terrible, and it died because I did a crap job making it.
Also, it was so early nobody got it when I tried to explain it to them. My CTO at the time told me it was really stupid and I was wasting my time working on it, nobody would ever use it. 😅
Headwayapp.co came along a few years later and created a really polished (and still free) experience, and there's a few other bootstrapped companies and indie makers creating a similar experience.
I spent some time thinking about Damon Chen's Testimonial.to product, especially the interaction of curating tweets to form a "wall of love".
Then it hit me: I'd much rather publish a Tweet every time I make a change to my Indie product, instead of going into a special app to create a changelog.
What if you could just read my public tweets, and then create a Changelog on the fly from anything I mark with a specific hashtag?
Like, if @kidgdzilla sends out a tweet with the hashtag #update it'd go into the Changelog. Could grab the image and/or video attachments and links as well.
Could turn it into a page I could link to, or an embeddable widget. I dunno.
Thoughts?
(Anyone want to steal this idea or take my money to make it?)
I guess "Automatic release notes" from GitHub commits are already a thing, and that's popular.
Oriented more toward developers though, vs. Makers / Product people.
Doesn't have the same potential to get shared socially, build an audience, share updates with customers, or effortlessly add rich media (photos and videos).