Focusing on something else.

I think I’ve reached a bit of a dead end with Cozy Watch.

And honestly, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Fundamentally, the project is doing exactly what it was meant to do: make it easier to keep track of your team’s pull requests and know when you’re needed.

Someone asks you for a review? You get notified.
Someone mentions you on a PR? You see it immediately.
CI comments, approvals, feedback on your own pull requests — everything becomes easier to follow without constantly checking GitHub.

The interesting part is that users seem genuinely happy with the app's current state.

Whenever I ask:

Is there anything else you’d like to have?

The answer is usually:

Honestly, it’s already good as it is.

Of course, I can keep improving things. I can refine the UI, add more granular notification controls, and polish details here and there. And I will.

But the truth is, right now it feels more like a maintenance-and-refinement phase than a major expansion phase.

And that’s okay.

I still love the project.
I use it myself.
It solves a real problem for a very specific type of user.

But I also recognise it’s a narrow niche product.

At the same time, I still love building.

So lately I’ve been focusing on a new project: generating release notes automatically from your GitHub history.

What surprised me the most was the reaction when I started talking to potential clients about it.

I expected polite interest.
Instead, I got responses like:

Wait… you can automate that?”
“I’m literally doing this by hand right now.”
“If this works well, it would be awesome.

That was encouraging.

Of course, real validation only happens when people are willing to pay for it. Interest is one thing. Money is another. But it’s still a strong signal that the problem exists.

Right now, the MVP is already working.

Ironically, I’m spending more time on the landing page than on the product itself.

I want to really nail the positioning and communication first. Show it on LinkedIn and other business platforms, see how people react, and iterate from there.

The product can be polished later.

You can already see the first version here: ReleaseView

I haven’t written in a while.
This felt good.

Thank you, Writizzy.

Tiago

Projects:
www.cozywatch.com ( $400 )
www.typegoat.com ($50 ) sponsor
www.releaseview.com ( waiting list )