Hello HN, I'm Alex.

Today I'm launching updatify.io, a tool that delivers product updates and changelogs to your customers through embedded widgets, auto-generated blogs, or emails. It also collects feedback through an up/down vote mechanism (with comments coming eventually).

Similar tools exist, but I built my own for several reasons: some lack integrations, others lack features, and I needed one for my own projects. I run several open source projects for the self-hosted community, and it's a constant battle with users creating issues to request features that have already been implemented.

I've built similar functionality as part of paid projects at my day job, so it was a logical decision to create this as a standalone product given my knowledge and experience with previous implementations.

I'm already working on several improvements: integrations with GitHub/GitLab + Gitea/Forgejo releases, more customization options for blog pages (including SEO and UI enhancements), and better analytics for both widgets/blogs and emails.

Beyond the web version, I have a Flutter package almost ready for release(just need to QA it), which will make it easy to include in Flutter apps and eventually native iOS/Android packages.

I also want to provide free access to all open source maintainers, since they're most likely to benefit from this tool and I want to support their work. If you're an open source maintainer, sign up and contact me (you can find my contact email in the app) so I can grant you a free subscription.

And by the way - no AI involved, and not a single line of code written with it.