Welcome to Releasebot! Here is a quick overview to help you get the most out of it.
What is Releasebot?
Releasebot is an aggregator of software release notes, changelogs, and product announcements. The problem it solves is the difficulty of keeping up with software changelogs, given they tend to be posted in a wide variety of formats across the web.
Releasebot brings all of those scattered release notes into one place and delivers them to you in the format you prefer: email, RSS, or something more programmatic.
I just signed up. What should I do now?
1. Follow some products or vendors
There is really only one thing you need to do with Releasebot: follow a few vendors and products. Once you have done this, your feed will be populated with release notes from those vendors and products.
You can browse alphabetically, by category, or search the catalog.
2. Bookmark your Releasebot feed
Your feed lives at releasebot.io/dashboard. Add it to your bookmarks bar and check back whenever you want to see what is new.
3. Check out your first email digest
In addition to your feed, we send a daily recap of all the release notes in your feed. You should receive it around 9-10 AM ET. Learn more about email.
4. Try out our API, MCP, or CLI
Give Releasebot to your agents. Every user can access our catalog programmatically via the API, MCP server, or CLI.
Head to releasebot.io/notifications to get your API key.
5. Consider upgrading to Releasebot Pro
Releasebot is a bootstrapped project and every subscription helps keep it going. As a Pro subscriber you get:
- An ad-free email digest
- 100 releases per email digest (the free plan is limited to ten; about 15% of emails cross the threshold)
- RSS, JSON, and CSV feeds
- Unlimited source submissions
- 5,000 API credits per month for the API, MCP, and CLI
Releasebot Pro is $50/year or $5/month.
6. Submit a few sources
You can submit sources to Releasebot. We will add it to the catalog and you will follow the associated product automatically.
How does the vendor and product hierarchy work?
Releasebot is organized as: Vendors > Products > Sources.
Every release notes source is mapped to a single product, and every release from that source belongs to that product.
When a vendor has only one product or a single release notes source, we create a "General" product that mirrors the vendor itself, so there is always a home for those releases.
For example, Notion has:
- Notion — the vendor page
- Notion > Notion — the "General" product
- Notion > Notion Developers — a separate product for developer-focused updates
When you follow a vendor with multiple products, you will be asked which ones to follow. We usually recommend starting with the "General" product.
Questions?
Drop us a line at [email protected].