In-app notifications for changelog updates

[dannyroosevelt]

I'd love to more deeply integrate Mintlify's Changelog into my app's web UI with features like in-app badging and notifications so I can announce new features directly to our users (both within our native web app and even within our Mintlify docs).

[navdeepyadav19]

Yeah that's a genuine feedback, no one open dev docs and check everyday on what has changed, in many cases they just wanna know from a popup in web and mobile app.

[rkhoriander]

I came here to request the same. My write-up:

Feature request: Embeddable in-product changelog widget

Summary

An embeddable widget that can be placed inside a web app to surface changelog updates to logged-in users, with an unseen entry count badge and a popover showing recent entries.

Use case

We're evaluating moving our product changelog from Headway to Mintlify. The Update component, automatic RSS feed, and GitHub-based authoring workflow are all strong fits for us. The one gap blocking the migration is the lack of an in-product widget.

Our current Headway widget does the following:

• Renders a badge inside our app with a count of unseen changelog entries
• Opens a popover on click showing the three most recent entries (tag, linked title, truncated description)
• Tracks unseen state in localStorage
• Links out to the full changelog page

This is meaningfully different from the public changelog page and RSS feed; it reaches users passively, without requiring them to visit a separate page or subscribe to anything.

What we'd need

At minimum, a small embeddable JavaScript snippet or React component that:

• Reads from one or more Mintlify changelog RSS feeds
• Merges and sorts entries from multiple feeds into a single list (useful for teams with separate product and API changelogs, for example)
• Renders a badge with an unseen count across all configured feeds
• Renders a popover with recent entries from the merged list
• Tracks seen/unseen state (localStorage would be sufficient)
• Supports separately configurable changelog page links in the popover, so teams can link to each individual changelog (for example, "Product" and "API") even when entries are merged into a single list

Configurability is important here. Some teams will have a single changelog; others will have multiple. The widget should support both without requiring separate widget instances.

We've begun building a prototype RSS-fed React component ourselves as a workaround, but a first-party solution would be significantly easier to adopt and maintain. It would also make Mintlify a complete replacement for dedicated changelog tools like Headway.

Who this would help

Any team currently using Headway, Beamer, or similar in-product changelog widgets who wants to consolidate onto Mintlify. The changelog feature is compelling, but without an in-product widget, teams with existing widget integrations face a migration gap that requires custom engineering work to close.