Improvement
Landing page polish & SEO
Hero motion, clearer messaging, and stronger metadata so the public site matches the quality of the product behind it.
Last updated 2026-08-07
Changelog
A living record of what we built — from the first bookmark shell to a product people can share, search, and subscribe to.
Shlau started because saving things to yourself in chat apps is broken. This page is the honest trail of how we turned that frustration into a product — feature by feature, in public.
August 2026
Growth & readiness
Store presence, analytics, subscriptions, and a sharper public face — the layer an early-stage product needs before it scales.
- Feature
RevenueCat subscriptions
Mobile subscription management via RevenueCat, aligned with how people already buy apps on their phones.
- Feature
Password change & sign-out
Account settings now cover password updates and an explicit sign-out path — basics that signal product maturity.
- Feature
Google Analytics 4
Consent-aware product analytics so we can see what helps people without guessing — and without ignoring privacy.
- Feature
App Store & Play links
Store badges on the landing experience so web visitors can reach the native apps in one tap.
- Improvement
HLS video playback
Shared and saved videos stream more reliably with HLS — fewer stalls when you open a clip from your stream.
July 2026
Public product surface
Homepage V2 and richer public profiles made Shlau readable to someone who has never signed in.
- Improvement
Smoother sticky search
Dashboard search stays put with better scroll behavior, so finding something mid-scroll feels intentional, not jumpy.
- Feature
Public profile sharing
Share bookmarks from your public profile with clearer bio and stats — your stream can represent you, not just store for you.
- Feature
Homepage V2
A rebuilt marketing homepage with motion, clearer narrative, and a product-first first viewport.
May – June 2026
Mobile & depth
Onboarding got clearer, the mobile app could deep-link into the web, and usage limits became visible instead of surprising.
- Improvement
Authenticated AI assistant
The ElevenLabs widget now carries signed-in context, so the assistant can talk about your stream safely.
- Feature
Usage tracking in the dashboard
See how much of your plan you have used — limits become a dashboard fact, not a dead end at save time.
- Feature
Mobile deep linking
iOS custom schemes and well-known routes so the app and web hand off without losing the entry you meant to open.
- Improvement
Type filters on mobile
Filter your stream by type from a mobile-friendly control — video, audio, links, and more without hunting.
- Improvement
Onboarding refresh
Clearer first-run steps and localization so connecting WhatsApp or Telegram feels like a guided setup, not a puzzle.
March – April 2026
Share the stream
Saved items stopped living only in a private feed. Links, public pages, profiles, digests, and a voice assistant opened the product outward.
- Feature
Public profiles
Create a public profile and put selected bookmarks on the open web — a home for the things worth showing.
- Feature
Daily digest & podcast
A newsletter-style digest (and podcast path) so your saved sources can surface again without another scroll session.
- Feature
Shlau AI voice assistant
An ElevenLabs-powered assistant in the product — ask about what you saved instead of only typing into search.
- Feature
Save shared entries to your stream
When someone shares a link with you, you can copy it into your own bookmarks in one action.
- Feature
Public shared entry pages
Shared bookmarks resolve to proper public pages with metadata — links that look like a product, not a dead token.
- Feature
Shareable bookmark links
Generate a share link for any bookmark, with expiration options — send one item without exporting your whole library.
January – February 2026
Save & organize
Media, search, billing foundations, and three languages — so the core loop worked for real people, not just a demo.
- Feature
Email as a save channel
Forward to Shlau by mail the same way you do from chat — another place people already dump “read later.”
- Feature
English, German & Turkish
Full product localization in three languages from day one of internationalization — not an afterthought string dump.
- Feature
Stripe subscriptions
Checkout, webhooks, and subscription-aware routing — the billing spine for paid plans.
- Feature
Search your stream
Debounced search across bookmarks so finding a half-remembered voice note or link does not require scrolling forever.
- Feature
Images, video, audio & documents
Bookmark cards and detail views understand real attachments — not only plain URLs.
December 2025
Foundations
Auth, the first bookmark surface, and onboarding — the minimum product that could hold a forwarded message.
- Feature
Channel onboarding
Connect the chat channels you already use and get a personal code — the first step from “interesting idea” to daily habit.
- Feature
Accounts that create themselves
Sign in with Clerk and land in a real user record — no empty shell after authentication.
- Feature
Bookmarks, profile & the first app shell
The first Shlau Personal commit: Next.js app, auth, database wiring, and a place to keep what you send yourself.
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