I got tired of writing release notes so I built a bot with Claude
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HN · launched Mar 12, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: developer productivity and workflow management · 198 launches, 47 in the last 7 days ▲ +488% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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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.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 283 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #257 of 284 (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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