I got tired of writing release notes so I built a bot with Claude
Details
- External ID
- 47350948
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I got tired of writing release notes so I built a bot with Claude
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- bot for generating release notes
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A GitHub Action or bot script that reads git commit logs / PR diffs and queries Claude's API to draft release notes is a classic single-prompt vibe coding project.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #109 of 120 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 134 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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