I’m rethinking my product: from AI blog writing to weekly build log recovery for indie hackers

Source: Dev.to

Original Idea

• Goal: Turn GitHub commits into AI‑written tech blog posts.
• Motivation: I enjoy writing about what I build, but like many developers, I often struggle to find the time and energy to craft polished posts.

Why It Felt Off

• Commit messages and PR descriptions are frequently only partially AI‑generated or incomplete.
• Relying on them to produce a coherent, accurate blog post can be risky and lead to misleading content.

What I Actually Found Useful

Instead of aiming for a perfect public post, I realized I needed a tool that helps me reflect on my work:

• Capture what I actually built.
• Track what changed.
• Record the reasoning behind decisions.
• Identify gaps or missing context.
• Highlight possible risks.

New Direction: Weekly Build‑Log Copilot

A narrower product aimed at indie hackers and solo developers:

• Read recent GitHub commits and PRs
• Reconstruct the past 7 days of work
• Summarize key changes and decisions
• Provide AI feedback on missing context, unclear reasoning, or potential risks
• Private by default – the log stays personal unless you choose to share.

Validation Questions for Solo Builders

1. How do you currently keep track of what you worked on each week?
2. When you need to remember “what happened this week,” what do you go back to?
3. Are commit messages / PRs enough to recover the actual context?
4. Is private reflection more valuable than public writing for you?
5. Would you use a tool like this, or is manually prompting ChatGPT/Claude already sufficient?

If you’re building solo and have 5 minutes to share your workflow, I’d really appreciate your brutally honest feedback. I’m trying to determine whether this product should exist at all.