If your release notes say “Bug fixes and minor improvements,” you’re doing it wrong.
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Stop shipping drive-by changes.
- • Granular staging: line, hunk, file
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- • Commit history that future-you can read
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AI powered 'What's new?' generator.
- • Turns Git commits into polished release notes
- • User + stakeholder drafts, side by side
- • Generate variations (concise, humorous, technical)
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I'm Steffen Finsland. I'm a software developer from northern Norway, living in Telemark with my wife and kids. From my cozy office in Norway's snowy mountains, I build opinionated dev tools that help Apple developers ship smoothly, from first commit to final release.
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