PatchWatch

Hi Product Hunt 👋 I built PatchWatch after spending a few years working hands-on in patch and vulnerability management. One recurring problem I kept running into wasn’t a lack of security data — it was too much scattered data and constant alert noise. Microsoft advisories in one place, NVD CVEs in another, open-source vulnerabilities somewhere else — and a lot of manual effort just to understand what actually changed. PatchWatch started as a small internal idea: aggregate trusted sources (Microsoft MSRC, NVD, OSV), let users subscribe only to the products they care about, and notify them only when new patches are released, grouped and sorted by severity. Another pain point I saw repeatedly was documentation. Even after identifying a patch, teams still spend time manually creating validation or test plans for reviews and approvals. To reduce that friction, PatchWatch can also generate a basic patch test plan from patch details — meant to save time on repetitive documentation, not replace human review. During development, the focus shifted from “more features” to less noise and less manual work — batched alerts, clear context, and practical outputs that fit existing processes. This is still an early version, and I’m sharing it here to learn from real practitioners. I’d love feedback from security teams, IT admins, MSPs, or anyone managing patches at scale — especially around alerts, validation workflows, and documentation pain points.