ShipItBuddy
The product logbook that doubles as your public changelog
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ShipItBuddy - The product logbook that doubles as your public changelog

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ShipItBuddy turns your daily build momentum into public proof. Track daily progress, protect your shipping streak, build a following, and drop a lightweight, elegant changelog widget onto your website with a single line of code.

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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 As makers, we face two constant battles: - Maintaining daily momentum when working solo or in small teams. - Keeping users and early adopters updated without turning changelog maintenance into a chore. Most changelog tools feel like heavy CMS platforms designed for enterprise PR releases. Meanwhile, daily habit trackers stay locked in private apps where your audience never sees them. We built ShipItBuddy to close that gap with a simple loop: Log once. Build discipline. Show your users proof. What you can do with ShipItBuddy: - Micro-log in seconds: Jot down what you shipped today without friction. - Protect your streaks: Visual momentum tracking that keeps you accountable day after day. - 1-Line Embed: Add an elegant, responsive changelog widget to your site that updates automatically whenever you log a public ship. - Build a following: Let other makers and your users follow your journey in real time. We’re live today and would love to hear what features would make your daily shipping workflow even smoother. What’s in your stack right now? Drop your feedback, roast our UI, or let us know what you’re shipping today! 🚀
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What is ShipItBuddy?

ShipItBuddy is a momentum platform for indie hackers and product teams that converts short ship notes into three synchronized surfaces: an in-app "What's New" widget, a public changelog page, and a community feed. You write a note once, tag it as NEW, FIX, IMPROVEMENT or ANNOUNCEMENT, and it publishes everywhere at the same time. The widget installs on any website that accepts a script tag, with an official component for React and Next.js, and requires no backend work.

Key Features

  • Single-script embed widget — one snippet, placed before the closing body tag, renders a "What's New" launcher pill or floating icon in the bottom-right corner that opens your latest releases in a modal.

  • Public changelog — every account gets a claimable public changelog page that is indexable, so release notes can surface in search.

  • Community feed — makers can sort ships by "Most Liked" or "Most Recent", search instantly by keyword or username, and paginated logs load dynamically in batches of 10.

  • Shipping heatmap — a calendar grid showing activity for the past 5 months plus the upcoming schedule for the next 4 months; clicking any date block filters the timeline changelog.

  • Streaks and leaderboards — a streak counter tracks consecutive shipping days (the demo account shows a 12-day streak) and feeds a leaderboard.

  • Reactions and follows — updates collect emoji reactions and upvotes, and you can follow other builders to get immediate notifications on their ship logs.

  • Framework coverage — Next.js (App and Pages Router, official SDK), React hooks and components for v18 and v19, Vue 3 and Nuxt module, Svelte and SvelteKit with Svelte 5, Remix SSR, Astro zero-JS islands, Vite, Angular standalone components, Tailwind CSS v3 and v4 auto theme, and first-class TypeScript types.

  • No-code embeds — one-click embed for Webflow, a plugin or script for WordPress, and a Liquid-compatible theme embed for Shopify.

Who is it for?

  • Indie hackers and solopreneurs: keep a daily ship log that feeds a public streak counter and an explore-feed profile, then share milestones to social.

  • Small product teams: drop the widget into an existing web app so current users see what changed without leaving the product.

  • No-code builders: publish a live changelog on Webflow, WordPress or Shopify with a single-click embed instead of hand-editing a release page.

  • Developer-tool maintainers: use the React/Next.js component and TypeScript types to wire release notes into a front end that already ships weekly.

What can you do with ShipItBuddy?

  • Daily loggers: log one ship note per day and watch the streak counter and heatmap accumulate a public record of momentum.

  • SaaS teams: embed the "What's New" widget so existing users discover fixes and improvements in context, then point them at the longer public changelog for detail.

  • Community builders: browse the Explore feed, upvote and react to other makers' ships, and follow builders to receive their ship notifications.

How does it work?

  1. Claim a free , which becomes the address of your public changelog.

  2. Write a ship note and tag it NEW, FIX, IMPROVEMENT or ANNOUNCEMENT.

  3. Paste the embed script before the closing body tag, or use the React/Next.js component.

  4. The same note appears in the widget, on the public changelog, and in the community feed.