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Re:Launch HN: Penny (YC W17) – a personal finance coach by xd1936 on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @01:54PM (#13813388)
What parts of your app and service do you update outside of the App Store/Google Play? Do those things get included in changelogs somewhere?
Re:Launch HN: Penny (YC W17) – a personal finance coach by imalex on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:08PM (#13813570)
Other co-founder here:

Since we use Cordova, the entire app is a website. So when you open up the app, it launches a webview pointed to a website that we deploy to like any other website. That means we can change any client logic and it'll go out in minutes. We also have a conversation DSL that lets us make conversation flow tweaks in under a minute, and since the bulk of the app is conversations, that allows us to move super quickly.

Great question about the changelogs! Since we don't have a longer cadence between feature pushes since we're deploying all the time, we have to go back and look at historical pushes whenever we need to write a changelog. We typically roll up all the little features and announce them whenever we make a new version in the app store. On top of that, we usually announce new features inside Penny, where she'll give a little intro on the new functionality. That also doubles as onboarding to the new feature if needed.