Semantic Changelog Generator from Conventional Commits with Audience Segmentation
Why This is an Opportunity
This solves the gap between raw commit history and polished release communication. Most teams either ship unreadable auto-generated changelogs or assign someone to manually rewrite them for different audiences. The solution is a simple CRUD app: paste commits or connect a repo, parse conventional commit prefixes, group by category, and render three different markdown outputs with configurable tone templates. No ML needed — just pattern matching on commit prefixes and configurable text templates. Buildable in one session with Next.js, a simple parser, and markdown rendering.
Key Pain Points
- •Engineering changelogs are useless to product managers and customers because they reference PR numbers and internal jargon
- •Someone on the team manually rewrites commit messages into customer-friendly language before every release
- •Conventional commit parsing tools exist but none generate multiple audience-specific outputs from the same source
- •Release notes get delayed because the person responsible for writing them is always a bottleneck
- •Teams resort to skipping changelogs entirely, leaving customers confused about what changed
Original Discovery
Development teams that follow conventional commit standards (feat:, fix:, chore:, etc.) still spend 30-60 minutes before each release manually curating changelogs. The real pain isn't just aggregating commits — it's translating developer-speak into customer-facing release notes. A web app that ingests a Git commit log (pasted or via GitHub API), auto-categorizes by type, and generates THREE versions — an internal engineering changelog, a product-team summary, and a customer-facing release note — would eliminate an entire pre-release ritual.
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