Recent.dev
Real-time changelog updates for your favorite tools
144 followers
Real-time changelog updates for your favorite tools
144 followers
Stop hunting for updates. Select your stack - from Next.js to Attio - and receive instant email updates the moment your tools change. Stay ahead of breaking changes and new features with a feed curated specifically for you. No noise.
Novu
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
Dima and Emil here, makers of recent.dev.
As builders, our tool set consists of 50+ different tools we use as part of our craft. But staying up to date with the recent updates and new features becomes quite challenging. I find my self regularly scouting the twitter feed, and manually going to bookmarked changelogs to see what's new, and how I can improve my workflow.
That’s why we built recent.dev. It’s simple:
1. Select the tools you use and love.
2. Get an aggregated email the second they release something new.
No "AI summaries" that miss the technical nuance, just the raw updates you need to keep your production apps running smoothly.
I’d love to hear from you: What is the one tool in your stack that is the hardest to keep track of?
I'll be here all day to answer questions and take tool requests! 🚀
Looks super cool 👏 Quick question - how do you decide what counts as an important update vs noise?
Novu
@netanel_baruch We are looking only on the products live changelog, so those are containing only notable changes in majority of the vendors. Usually combining all the small fixes under a main release. Fun thing, is that usually changelog pages are available prior to the official social messages, so you are going to be the first to know!
Novu
@netanel_baruch And since you pick exactly which tools to follow, your feed stays focused on your stack. No algorithm deciding what's 'important' - just the updates you actually need.
Product Hunt
Novu
@curiouskitty Great question! The honest answer: it's the aggregation + curation combo.
Each of those solutions works for some tools:
- RSS - great when it exists (many don't publish one)
- GitHub releases - only covers open source, misses SaaS tools entirely
- Newsletters - buried in promo content, inconsistent timing
- Page monitors - noisy false positives, no semantic understanding
The feedback we hear most is "I was cobbling together 4-5 different systems and still missing things." Recent.dev provides a single feed in a normalized format, aggregating changelogs from tools that publish in completely different formats (RSS, JSON feeds, blog posts, and release pages).
The "aha" moment is usually: "Wait, I can see Vercel, Tailwind, Linear, and Postgres releases in the same place without setting up anything?" That simplicity is what gets people to switch.
Great idea! How do you retrieve the framework update information?
Novu
@unkn0wndfbx We use a multi-strategy approach since every tool publishes differently:
1. RSS/Atom feeds - when available, this is the cleanest source
2. JSON feeds - some tools expose structured changelog data
3. Structured scraping - for tools that only have HTML changelog pages, we extract and normalize the content
4. GitHub releases - for open source tools that use GitHub's release system
Each tool gets configured with the best strategy for its source. The system runs on a sync schedule, detects new entries, deduplicates, and normalizes everything into a consistent format.
We also have drift detection, if a tool's changelog structure changes or a source starts failing, we flag it for review rather than serving stale data. It's genuinely one of the trickier parts of the product. Changelog formats are all over the place!
GraphBit
This solves a very real pain. Changelogs are the actual source of truth, but they’re scattered and easy to miss until something breaks. Having a stack-specific, no-noise feed feels especially valuable now that tooling and AI infra change weekly. Curious to see how teams start wiring this into incident response and upgrade planning.
Novu
@musa_molla Appreciate it. The AI infra churn is real - half my feed is LLM library updates right now. Team integrations are on my radar. Curious what that would look like for you - Slack alerts? Dashboard for the whole org's stack?
A brilliant idea and really well executed, in a simple and clean UI/UX, it would be great also to have daily or weekly notification on email as changelog.
Novu
@leotrim_lota on it!
Novu
@leotrim_lota Thanks! You're reading our minds - email digests are rolling out next week. You'll be able to choose daily or weekly summaries delivered straight to your inbox. Appreciate the kind words on the UI/UX.
Perfect for devs! No more hunting for updates. Clean feed, instant alerts. Super useful tool.
Novu
@zeiki_yu Thank you!
Novu
@zeiki_yu Exactly what we were going for. Thanks for the kind words!