Show IH: I built a public changelog for product builders
The idea came from a problem I kept running into myself: I build products and ship updates on a daily basis, but there’s no good place to share those updates unless you already have many followers.
Posting on X didn’t do much for me (I have only ~200 followers). Posting on changelog page meant basically nobody saw it. Posting frequently on Reddit felt spammy pretty quickly.
So I made a public product changelog.
Featdrop is kind of like Product Hunt, but instead of launches, makers and builders post product updates. You can have multiple products, post multiple updates every day, and people can see, follow, vote on, and comment on what you’re building.
It especially works well for solo founders, side project buiders, and small teams to showcase their progress.
One feature I personally especially like is the update calendar showing on the profile page — it shows a monthly history of everything you shipped. It feels like a nicer way to show product momentum than just a GitHub graph. (The idea was inspired by an infographic made by ProductCompass)
If you’re actively building, I’d love for you to check it out and happy to hear any feedback.
Link is https://featdrop.com
The "GitHub-graph-for-products" framing is clever — most builders undercount consistency, and a visible monthly heatmap makes dry spells psychologically expensive in a good way. I run a small indie app and posting to my own changelog page gets essentially zero eyeballs, which is exactly the distribution problem you're solving.
Two technical/product thoughts: do you expose RSS feeds or webhooks per product? That's the thing that would let me integrate Featdrop into my existing ship-log pipeline instead of double-posting. And how are you handling the "empty profile cold start" — the moment the grid is empty, the incentive to keep posting drops off a cliff. Any plan for a weekly digest email of top updates to give posts a second life beyond the live feed?
This is interesting — most builders think “build in public” solves distribution, but it rarely does without an existing audience.
Curious — are you seeing people use this more to get discovered, or just to document progress?