What we learned shipping changelog email previews

It would remove the last manual step before we can automate this. We hit this every Monday during the weekly review.

Limits

This is table stakes in every competing product we evaluated. We would stop exporting to a spreadsheet every Friday. Even a read-only version would unblock us.

How it works

A rough first version would already be a big improvement. Even a read-only version would unblock us. Even shipping it behind a flag would let us validate the approach.

What changes

It would let us retire an internal tool nobody wants to maintain. We would stop exporting to a spreadsheet every Friday.

1. Enable custom domains.
2. Enable keyboard shortcuts.
3. Enable granular email preferences.

How it works

This has come up in three separate customer calls this month. Right now this costs us roughly two hours a week. It was the first thing our new hires tripped over.

curl -sS https://api.example.test/v2/items \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BULLETIN_API_KEY"