What would you want from a website dedicated to release notes?

Question

I'm thinking about building a website that scrapes release notes from sources like https://community.ui.com/releases, https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md, https://developer.android.com/about/versions/13/release-notes etc, and cleans them up & formats into the same format so they can be searched a lot easier.It seems like the best place to start would be for folks who read HN since we refer to these quite a bit day-to-day to figure out what changes in software, apps, etc. Let's open this up with a few questions:1. Would you find a service like this useful? Why or why not?2. What release notes would you want to have formatted into the same thing and why?3. What features or capabilities would you like to see a service like this do? e.g. would you like to select multiple "products/apps/whatever" and see their release notes in one timeline? Side-by-side? etc. etc. etc.

CrypticShift · Accepted Answer

1. In theory Yes, cause too many updates, too little time. In practice, this will turn into Yet another source of information to visit, so it better be good.3. Because LLMs/Vector-search are getting &ldquo;good enough&rdquo; with Text, I think there is a potential here to bypass all the traditional feed-like UI, and go straight for the "give me a summary of the top updates since last time for all js libs on my list" kind of simple NLP search UI