“Olvy is an all-in-one changelog platform that you can align to your brand, host on your subdomain, and embed in your app in just a few hours.
Our customers now proactively see feature updates right inside of our application through Olvy's gadget. We look at these Changelogs as a Feature adoption mechanism.”
With Olvy, Smplrspace created an on-brand, embedded changelog that helps them consistently communicate product updates, engage users inside the app, and showcase active product development with minimal manual effort.
Smplrspace is a data visualization platform built for commercial real estate owners and operators. As the product evolved, the team wanted a reliable and professional way to communicate new features and improvements to their users - without adding friction to their development or release workflows.
Creating visibility for active product development
When Smplrspace decided to start publishing a changelog, Olvy was the first tool they adopted. The team’s primary goal was to create better visibility around new features and ongoing product development, while ensuring the changelog looked professional, aligned with their brand, and could be easily surfaced to users.
Olvy’s Changelog offered exactly that: a customizable, on-brand changelog that could be hosted on a dedicated subdomain, embedded directly inside the product, and subscribed to by users who wanted to stay informed.
Today, Smplrspace hosts their public changelog at changelog.smplrspace.com and integrates Olvy’s announcement widget inside their application. This allows users to see notifications whenever a new release is published, ensuring updates don’t go unnoticed.
A changelog workflow that fits naturally into development
Changelog publishing at Smplrspace is tightly integrated with their existing development process. As part of their backlog workflow, developers add short notes whenever a pull request is merged. These notes are then consolidated and refined using an AI agent that improves language quality and aligns the content with Smplrspace’s brand voice.
From there, the CTO reviews the final update and publishes it directly from the Olvy dashboard. This approach allows the team to maintain a consistent and polished changelog without slowing down engineering or product delivery.
Reliable platform, consistent communication
Since adopting Olvy’s Changelog, Smplrspace has benefited from a reliable platform that supports their release communication needs as the product continues to evolve. By centralizing changelog publishing and embedding it directly into the user experience, the team ensures customers stay informed and engaged with ongoing improvements.
