Public Product Changelog with Customer Reaction Tracking
Why This is an Opportunity
Public changelogs are currently one-directional. Companies publish, customers passively consume (or don't). There's no structured way to capture whether a change was well-received, confusing, or concerning to your user base. The solution is simple: a hosted changelog page builder where companies create entries via a form, each entry renders on a public URL with reaction buttons, and logged-in users (identified by email or API key) can react. The backend aggregates reactions into a dashboard showing engagement per entry and sentiment distribution. Standard CRUD with a public-facing read view and a private analytics dashboard.
Key Pain Points
- •Companies publish changelogs but have zero data on which entries customers actually read or care about
- •Product teams can't distinguish between changes that excite users and changes that worry them
- •No way to segment changelog engagement by customer tier (enterprise vs. free) without building custom tooling
- •Customer feedback on releases arrives informally via support tickets days later instead of at the moment of reading
- •Static changelog pages provide no engagement metrics comparable to what marketing teams get from blog analytics
Original Discovery
SaaS companies that publish public changelogs (think Notion-style update pages) have no feedback loop. They announce a feature, but they can't tell which updates customers actually care about. Did anyone read the new billing feature announcement? Did the API change worry enterprise clients? A hosted changelog page where each entry allows signed-in users to react (🎉, 😟, ❓) and where the company gets an analytics dashboard showing which entries got the most engagement, what sentiment looks like, and which customer segments reacted — that's the missing feedback layer on top of static changelog pages.
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