Shipstar connects to your GitHub repositories and turns your recent commits into polished marketing content — changelogs, blog posts, social posts, and more. This guide walks you through signing up, linking GitHub, and triggering your first changelog in just a few minutes.
Sign up and get into the dashboard
- Go to app.shipstar.ai and create your account using your email address or Google sign-in.
- Verify your email if prompted, then log in to reach the dashboard.
- When you first arrive, you will be inside a default project. Projects are the containers Shipstar uses to group your repositories, content, and settings.
- In the dashboard sidebar, click Sources.
- Click Install GitHub App. GitHub will ask you which organization or personal account to install on, and which repositories Shipstar may read. Access is read-only.
- After approving the installation on GitHub, you are returned to the Sources page. Select the repositories this project should track — these are the repos Shipstar will analyze when generating content.
- From the dashboard, go to the Calendar page or look for the generate action in your project.
- Choose Public Changelog as the content type and click Generate. Shipstar will analyze commits from your tracked repositories over the last 7 days by default.
- You will receive a
content_idand an initial status of pending. Content is generated asynchronously in the background, so it will not appear instantly. - Check the status by opening the content item in the dashboard. The status moves from pending to processing to completed — once complete, your changelog draft is ready to review and edit before publishing.
- If you do not see any content generated, make sure at least one tracked repository has commits in the past 7 days.
- You can customize the date range and the tone of generated content — see the guides on content guidelines for details.
- On the Free plan you start with 1,000 credits per month; a changelog costs 100 credits, so you have plenty of room to experiment.