You stopped writing changelogs months ago.
ShipNotes turns your GitHub releases into a beautiful, embeddable changelog — auto-drafted, still entirely yours to edit.
How it works
From merged PR to published changelog in minutes
The GitHub App does the tedious first draft. You just humanize it and hit publish.
Connect GitHub
The ShipNotes app reads merged PRs and releases from your repo — no CI changes, no webhooks to wire up yourself.
Humanize the draft
Auto-drafted entries land in a markdown editor with tags, date, and media embed — you polish, you decide what's public.
Publish everywhere
One publish updates your hosted changelog page, the embeddable widget, and emails subscribers automatically.
The problem
Changelogs are the first thing founders cut
Beamer and Canny bundle changelogs into $50-100+/mo suites built for mid-size product teams — overkill for a solo founder who just wants a clean "what's new" page.
Writing changelogs is tedious
So most founders skip it — and quietly lose a retention and marketing channel that costs nothing but a few minutes.
Beamer and Canny price for teams, not indies
$50-100+/month for a changelog widget is a hard sell when you're pre-revenue or just past it.
Users don't know what shipped
Without a visible changelog, your best new features go unnoticed — you built it, but nobody adopted it.
What we'd build
What ShipNotes actually does
A focused changelog tool that turns shipped work into free, ongoing marketing — without becoming a whole product-feedback suite.
Markdown changelog editor
Title, tags, date, media embed — a clean writing surface with no bloat.
Hosted changelog page
yourproduct.shipnotes.app, custom domain on paid plan — fast and built to rank in search.
Embeddable widget
Under 5KB with unread-dot logic — drops into any site without weighing it down.
Email subscribers
Notified automatically on every publish — no separate newsletter tool needed.
GitHub-drafted entries
The app drafts an entry from your merged PRs — you just humanize it.
Optional BYOK AI polish
Use your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini key — $0 extra to us.
How it compares
ShipNotes vs. Beamer / Canny
The free tier carries a small 'Powered by ShipNotes' badge — the same growth loop that took the testimonial tool Senja to $1M ARR.
Planned pricing
Simple, honest pricing
The free tier exists to spread the badge — it stays genuinely useful, not crippled.
Free
$0
For your first changelog
- 1 project
- shipnotes.app subdomain
- Badge required
Pro
Most Popular$15/mo
For your own domain
- Custom domain
- Email subscribers
- GitHub drafts
Team
$29/mo
For multiple products
- 5 projects
- Everything in Pro
The first 30 signups get 6 months of Pro free once ShipNotes ships.
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