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Nik Graf

Changefeed - A beautiful changelog for your product in seconds

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A new indie app built by three friends who noticed how much their users love to be kept up to date with changes to apps they use. Get started with a changelog for your product today with a 7 day free trial!

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Johannes N
Love the idea, we're already investigating couple of different solutions for changelogs in the last couple of weeks and until now I did not find any compelling products on the market. The changelog looks awesome and easy to grasp - also, the idea with different projects is something that stands out compared to other products! What I would love to see in the future: - cheaper custom domains - embeddable widgets to embed the changelog directly in an application - custom colors/css
Max Stoiber
Maker
@jollife you have hit the nail on the head, those are some great ideas! 🔥 Glad you like it, we would love to see the Socialisten on Changefeed sometime soon 😉
Johannes N
@mxstbr jep, I'm definitely interested in trying out the product. Next suggestion: is there a rss feature, where I can subscribe to your official changefeed? :)
Max Stoiber
Maker
@jollife we have a newsletter (https://buttondown.email/changefeed) and we are working on building this into Changefeed so that every changelog can have its own newsletter! 👍
Arsen Nurmagomedov
@jollife Hi Johannes, you mentioned that you didn't find any compelling products. I am really curious what was missing? 🙂
Max Stoiber
Maker
Hey, I'm Max one of the co-creators of Changefeed 👋 Together with Brian and Nik we built Changefeed over the past year to make it simple to keep a changelog for your product. All three of us noticed the immense marketing value keeping a changelog has: users love knowing what's new with the apps they use. Unfortunately, keeping a changelog is pretty tedious and takes a lot of time. Changefeed makes it quick and simple: sign up and get your changelog live in seconds! (for example, see Changefeed's own changelog at https://changelog.changefeed.app) Not only that, but maintaining it is also much less work thanks to our awesome release composer, and we have got some great plans to make it even easier. (GitHub integration anyone?) You can see what your changelog would look like without having to log in (!) or pay (!!) on the getting started page (https://changefeed.app/get-started) right now. Try it! 😍 Companies also often get their changelog wrong if they have one. Most of them publish one big announcement every couple months, but what about all the smaller changes they are shipping in-between? Every single change you ship is an opportunity to connect with your users and turn them into superfans. Do not make the mistake of letting that just go to waste by never talking about a large majority of your releases. They might not be worthy of a blogpost, but your users sure as hell would love to know about them! Changefeed makes it easy and encourages your whole team to share every release, no matter how small. On top of that, we also published the short and sweet ultimate guide on "How to keep a great changelog" (https://changefeed.app/how-to-ke...) so you do not make the same mistake—whether you use Changefeed or not! 🚀 We have a ton of ideas to make Changefeed even more useful, what do you think we should tackle next? P.S.: Fun fact, we have not all met in person at the same time! Nik and I live in Vienna (Nik and I have worked on a bunch of open source projects together), while Brian lives in NYC (Brian and I previously co-founded Spectrum and now work at GitHub together).
Kitze
*insert a lot of fire emoji here*
Max Stoiber
Maker
@thekitze 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Osamah Aldoaiss
This looks simple, yet beautiful for any App/Page. Can't wait to try it out with my Products. Good job @nikgraf, @mxstbr and @brian_lovin!
Max Stoiber
Maker
@nikgraf @brian_lovin @osamah_aldoaiss 🙏 thank you so much for the kind words! If you have any troubles or feedback at all, you can reach me at max@ the changefeed domain anytime, I would love to hear about it.
Osamah Aldoaiss
@nikgraf @brian_lovin @mxstbr I will definitely do that 😉 Keep up the good work 👍🏽
Josef Strzibny
How can people justify recurring $39 for something you can solve by one static page (and have it on your own domain)? I must be missing something here... of course if this works and people love it, then big congrats as it must be a nice business. If someone is a customer, how do you justify this price for yourself?
Ghost Kitty
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Abadesi
Love how you've pulled this off as a distributed team 🙌
Mo
Love the super quick and easy onboarding! The live preview is just 👌 brilliant ux. I have some questions I think can help many people even a one sentence answer! 1. How did you manage 3 of you while collaborating on the product, any particular key tips for co-working with co-creators from both your startups experiences? 2. What factors were important in choosing your current pricing? (eg. target customer, your goals for the project, featureset, etc) 3. I notice a brand asset link in your footer, do you recommend people to include that on their products very early on?
Mo
Quick suggestion: while reading your own changelog, I notice the colored labels [NEW] [FIXED] distract my eyes while actually ready the changes. It's can be also a bit more clear where the next item starts vs I'm reading a paragraph (eg. could add an icon or dash beside items)
Max Stoiber
Maker
@morajabi thank you for the kind words! Let me answer those questions: 1. The most important thing for us was setting clear boundaries. All of us have full-time jobs, so making it very clear from the beginning how much time each of spent on Changefeed was key. 2. We mostly went by the gut here, based on what we think we would pay if somebody else had made Changefeed. We wanted to be affordable for indie devs, yet be able to scale up to companies of all sizes. 3. I actually just added that yesterday, mainly because I could not find our logo in the right format in preparation for this launch 🙈 I am not sure if anybody is going to use it apart from us, but I will happily report back in a couple weeks.
Mo
@mxstbr thanks for your answers! Definitely, a follow-up short blog post can help many of us! e.g. how you experimented with pricing—if you do (and probably drive more folks your way as your audience is generally the people building products themselves :D) 1. Makes sense! 3. Looks nice though, I personally feel good by seeing that page, it means to me that you care about what you do.
Helge Fahrnberger
Great. Was just looking for something like this. Love the clean interface.
Max Stoiber
Maker
@helge thanks for the kind words, would love to hear your feedback if you start using it!
Helge Fahrnberger
Wanted to try it but found the credit card requirement for the test period a little harsh.
Max Stoiber
Maker
@helge I'm sorry to hear that! Since we are building this in our free time, we have to be a bit cautious about the barrier of entry to avoid getting overwhelmed by support requests, thusly we decided to require CC info upfront. I hope that makes sense, we would still love to have you on board 🙏
Adrian Smith
Hey Max, I just wanted to let you know about an experience I had a few years ago. I was considering purchasing project management SaaS software. As I'm sure you know, there are lots of competing offerings in this space. After reading marketing and watching videos, I created a shortlist of about 20 products, with the intention of testing them out. However, about half required CC up-front. The thought of entering my CC 10 times, then cancelling (at least) 9 of them, remembering to do so, all with different rules about when you have to do it and different UX: well, I was sure I would forget one, so wasn't enthusiastic about doing that. So I signed up to the 10 not requiring CC and found a good solution amongst them. Once I'd chosen, I was happy to enter my CC to that solution and pay. If none of them had been any good, for sure, I would have put my CC into one of the ones requiring CC for free trial, but it wasn't necessary.
Roland Deveraux
Hi guys! Wondering how Changefeed compares to other similar products in the market (more specifically with www.getbeamer.com which is on top of my wishlist now)
Max Stoiber
Maker
@conur_bano that's a great question! We investigated many other options, including Beamer, for a while since we were looking for a solution for this problem ourselves at Spectrum. None of them work the way we wanted them to, they all encourage sharing a small blog post for every big change. We realised that our users love knowing about all the changes we make, not just the big new fancy features every month or so, and none of the other options encourage that. We wanted something that made it easy to keep a great changelog for all the changes out of the box (see https://changefeed.app/how-to-ke...). That's why Changefeed was born! I hope that makes sense, let me know if you have any other questions.
Jp Valery
Congrats team :)
Brian Lovin
Maker
@jpvalery Thanks so much!
Jason Festa
Love this idea. I was just talking to my co-founder about how there is no service that solves this. I was thinking of something connected to git, maybe based on milestones that updates automatically. Any thoughts on github integration OR does that defeat the "human" aspect what what you are trying to achieve?
Max Stoiber
Maker
@jason_festa thanks for the kind words! A GitHub integration is definitely on the roadmap, hoping to build that soon!
Lachlan Kirkwood
Great product empowering makers to build in the open, awesome work 🙌
Brian Lovin
Maker
@lachlankirkwood Thanks Lachlan!
Guilherme Decampo
Pretty well executed and designed. I found a bit pricey though.
Valentin Kononov
hey! nice tool, is there a easy way to integrate it to our web site apart from just put it into iframe?
Max Stoiber
Maker
@valentin_kononov1 we are working on that, coming soon! 👍
Max Stoiber
Maker
@valentin_kononov1 hey I know it's been a while but we now have a widget for your website! See the documentation on how to enable it here: https://changefeed.app/help/webs...
Charles Vinette
I absolutely love this. Whenever you think everything has been done, think again - this is yet again a great example. We will be using this for sure, great work! :D
Ethan Steininger
Such a great idea. Changelogs, readmes, API documentation all are tedious to build and provide immense value when done right
Urbanbeard Marketing
How can people justify recurring $39 for something you can solve by one static page (and have it on your own domain)? I must be missing something here... of course if this works and people love it, then big congrats as it must be a nice business. If someone is a customer, how do you justify this price for yourself?
vipul mishra
Nice work @max. Congrats on the launch. Not sure if got this before but how does ChangeFeed compare with @Beamer app?
Alicia-Sykes
Why no free plan for open source repos?
Luke
@alicia_sykes There is: "We are proud to offer the Startup plan for free to any open source project. Ping us at hi@changefeed.app and we will get you set up!" (from https://changefeed.app/pricing)
Joshua Dance
We need a custom domain. Any idea on time frame? (I know estimation is hard. But we talkin 1 month, 1 year, never etc?)
Max Stoiber
Maker
@joshdance hopefully a couple months at most! 👍