Product update subscriptions: Drops

Morning :hot_beverage:,

You might have noticed that the speed at which we are moving has improved significantly. Nothing to hide here; we are leaning heavily on LLMs and building systems to make the most of them. This is great, but comes with a cost. It’s hard for you to keep up with everything we are putting out there. The volume of updates is much larger, and the breadth of domains has increased too. We dumped the responsibility of filtering the signal from the noise on you, and that’s wrong, if you ask me.

But we have good news for you. We are doing something about it. We are going to move much of our product development to an OSS platform we are building, Hive (hive.tuist.dev), and you’ll likely hear us talk about it more and more. Our plan is that most of the ideation work and the execution of some pieces happens there, all automated, tracing from idea to release so that we can build a graph of product knowledge that can help you answer things like “Which version implemented this feature”?

While building this platform, which is still a bit WIP, we noticed it’d be a perfect place to solve the filtering of the signal from the noise, so we went ahead and built the feature. We call it Drops. A drop is a product update bound to projects and domains. And the best of it is that they are subscribable via RSS & Atom. If you are interested in updates, such as “cache” or “generated projects”, you can click “Subscribe” and select your areas of interest. You’ll get a URL that you can add to your RSS or Atom client of choice, and just receive the pieces that you are interested in.

Note that companies typically send product updates via email, and we do that too here and there through our newsletter, but we believe this is a more curated channel that you’ll like more.

Give it a shot and let us know what you think. I’m planning to allow email subscription too. Hive is open source at GitHub - tuist/hive: Agentic product development · GitHub, so you can create issues there to share ideas or even open PRs. And if you want to deploy something similar for your team, let’s chat. I’m really intrigued by how companies approach product development these days.

Related to this, I added a new feature, “Digests”, which are RSS/Atom-subscribable summaries of all the drops that landed that week.