About ShipRoll

ShipRoll is a crawled directory of indie SaaS changelog entries. It exists because skimming 300 /changelog pages every week is a bad use of a product manager's brain.

The registry currently tracks 41 products. 23 entries have been indexed across 4 categories. The last crawl finished just now.

The shipping velocity view ranks products by rolling 30-day release count and shows an 8-week trend for each product.

How the crawler behaves

• Rate-limited to ~1 request/second across hosts.
• Identifies itself as ShipRollBot/0.1 in the User-Agent.
• Retries transient timeouts, 408, 429, and 5xx responses with bounded backoff.
• Uses ETag and Last-Modified validators when feeds provide them.
• Treats 304 Not Modified as a healthy no-op.
• Never scrapes content behind a login or paywall.

How to suggest a feed

Open a pull request against registry.yaml in the repo. Each entry needs a name, slug, category, homepage, and feed URL.

Static JSON export

Every build writes a serverless JSON export under api/. Start at api/index.json for the manifest, then use api/entries.json, api/products.json, api/categories.json, or the per-product and per-category files.

Pricing (planned)

• Free: directory read-only, last-7-day view, per-product view.
• Pro $4.99/mo: saved filters, email digest, CSV export, keyword alerts.
• API $29/mo: hosted, metered programmatic JSON access.