I keep finding out about API breaking changes from production errors, so I'm building a changelog watcher

I build products solo. Every single one of them sits on top of somebody else's API — Stripe for payments, OpenAI and Anthropic for AI features, Meta for ads, print-on-demand APIs, map APIs. My code is maybe half of what actually runs in production. The other half belongs to vendors, and it changes whenever they decide it changes.

Twice this year the first notice I got about a breaking change was a production error. Not an email, not a warning. An error, and then me digging through the vendor's changelog trying to figure out what they changed and when. The information was public the whole time. It was sitting in a changelog page I never visit, because nobody visits changelog pages until something is on fire.

So I'm building the thing I wanted to exist

BreakWatch is simple: you tell it which APIs your product depends on, and it reads their public changelogs for you.

It fetches each changelog page once a day