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My team and I used to share weekly changelogs manually: backend, frontend, and design updates written into a team channel. It was useful for keeping everyone
by jmscarpax 1y ago
My team and I used to share weekly changelogs manually:
backend, frontend, and design updates written into a team channel.
It was useful for keeping everyone aligned, but it took effort to
turn commit-level work into something product/design could follow.
Since we were already experimenting with AI, we decided to automate it.
The result is *Briefly* – a lightweight CLI that:
- Collects commits from your repo
- Summarizes them with OpenAI
- Outputs a clean `briefly-summary.md`
- Publishes directly to Discord via webhook
The workflow is simple:
briefly setup
briefly generate
briefly publish
It’s available on npm:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jmscarpa/briefly https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jmscarpa/briefly
Roadmap includes: aliases (`briefly g`), multilingual summaries,
relative dates (`--since 7d|1w|2m`), dry-run for CI, and custom prompts.
We’ve been using it internally and it’s saving us ~30 minutes per week
while producing more consistent updates.
Would love feedback from the community — especially around CI
integration ideas or formats beyond Discord.