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You shipped it. Nobody saw it.

Your git log already has this week's update. We publish it as a changelog feed, so people who would use or contribute can see the project is alive.

How it works

Paste a git URL. The source stays yours.

Name the project and point us at the repo. We watch the commits and draft the issue you would have written. Your host, your license, your code. We only publish the story.

The feed

This is what a living project looks like.

Each card is a changelog issue, written from commits. Filter by kind, open a profile, or keep scrolling.

latchkit · 11 Aug
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Servo hold, USB brownout, and the first iOS volunteer

A quieter week on hardware, a louder week on the app. The button-clicker now holds instead of tapping.

ESP32 board and a small servo on a wooden bench
Hardware
  1. Servo dwell increased to 420ms so stubborn wall buttons actually latch.
  2. Brownout detector on USB power; the board sleeps instead of rebooting mid-press.
  3. Opened three good-first issues for an iOS client.
14 notes 6 restacks 31 likes
millpond · 9 Aug
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Partial rebuilds, and the cache finally tells the truth

A page that did not change no longer gets rewritten. The manifest now records why a file was skipped.

Printed website layouts spread on a table
Static sites
  1. Content-hash skip for unchanged markdown.
  2. Broken include paths fail the build instead of shipping an empty slot.
9 notes 3 restacks 22 likes
caskfile · 6 Aug
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Checksums on HTTP installs, plus a quieter diff

If the tarball moved, the install stops. cask diff no longer reprints the whole file for one pin.

Close-up of a command line terminal
CLI
  1. SHA-256 required on every http source.
  2. Diff prints only the pins that changed.
7 notes 2 restacks 18 likes

Readers

Contributors read momentum, not a README.

Each issue lands on a public project page. People subscribe once and get every later issue. A launch day is a pulse. A feed is the flywheel.

Pricing

Priced against the hours you would spend writing notes.

Free is a real project page and posts you write yourself. Paid is automation: weekly, monthly or quarterly. Annual billing is about two months free.

Free

$0 forever

A public project page, a profile, and posts you write by hand. Listed in the directory.

  • Project page and profile
  • Manual changelog posts
  • Directory listing
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Quarterly

$5 /mo, billed annually

Four automated issues a year. For repos that move slowly but should still look alive.

  • Automated quarterly issues
  • Subscriber list on the project
  • $60 per year
Start quarterly

Weekly

$29 /mo

For repos that ship every week. Priority processing, multiple repos, and a custom domain.

  • Automated weekly issues
  • Multiple repos, priority processing
  • Custom domain, $290 / year
Start weekly

Questions

I can write my own blog.

You can, and most maintainers will not. Writing about the work competes with doing the work and loses. We remove the writing, not the publishing.

Why pay to promote free software?

The moment you want users or contributors, you are doing distribution, in hours or in money. A monthly changelog written by hand costs one to three hours. $12 buys those hours back. The code stays under your license.

Will anyone read it?

A personal blog starts at zero every time. Here the issue lives in a directory of open source projects, and subscribers stay on the project page. Each later issue reaches them without another launch post.

Is paying for this against the spirit of open source?

Open source is a license, not a vow of silence. You are paying for communication tooling, the same category as CI or a domain. We never touch the repo or the license.

What happens if the repo goes quiet?

Pause the plan. The project page and subscribers stay. A weekly plan on a quiet repo should downshift, not publish thin issues.

Show them it's alive.

Register a repo. The first draft is built from your commits. You keep building. The feed keeps showing up.

Ada Byron

@ada

Hardware in the garage. Ships latchkit and anything that clicks a button.

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