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Steal this Idea: Automatically create a Changelog from my Tweets

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?)

on February 26, 2021
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    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).