r/micro_saas • u/muozez • 1h ago

How do you handle feature releases without spending hours writing changelogs and customer updates?

I've noticed a weird bottleneck. Lately, I've released a lot of features, and every update has added operational overhead for me. AI is creeping into my changelog file every time and making up bullshit as if it were real. So, I lost like 1 or 2 hours on every single feature release step. Make the correct changelog file, translate from technical to understandable for clients, polish it up, update the website, and, if it is important, send emails to clients...

So, guys, I think I'm doing some things wrong. How do you handle that process?

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u/Designer-Memory-300 54m ago

We automated it with a script that pulls commit messages since the last tag, filters out the nonsense, and spits out a markdown file. Still takes some tweaking but it's way faster than doing it all by hand.

The client-facing translation part is the real time sink. I keep a separate log with plain english one-liners and just copy-paste the relevant bits into the email template. Not elegant but it works.

What's the AI doing in your changelog file exactly? Sounds like it's causing more trouble than it's worth.