Changelog
Last updated: April 11, 2026
An honest timeline, not a marketing one. Docz.me's history is lumpy: a burst of work in 2016, informal sharing in 2018, a long quiet stretch while our founder was buried in client work, and a full revival in late 2025 when AI coding tools made solo product development feel possible again.
Release history
The 2026 rewrite — now
April 2026- Full rewrite on Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Prisma, and Tailwind.
- New landing page, pricing page, legal pages, and onboarding flow.
- Sharp Grotesk typography across the interface.
- Plan selection with free Basic tier and 14-day trials on paid plans.
- First publicly-available commercial version after a decade of private use.
Revival — late 2025
November–December 2025- Brought the project back from sleep mode with help from AI coding assistants.
- Started modernizing the aging codebase piece by piece.
- Wrote the first real product roadmap the project has ever had.
Sleep mode — 2018–2025
2018–2025- Seven years of quiet, part-time maintenance by a busy freelancer founder.
- A small handful of original users kept the app running for their own work.
- Bugs got fixed when they annoyed us. Features got added when they were worth an hour on a weekend.
- No marketing, no pricing page, no public signup.
First informal share
2018- After two years of using the tool privately, the founder started sharing it with other freelancers.
- No signup form — people emailed to ask, and we set them up manually.
- First feedback from real users outside the founder.
The first commit
2016- The first lines of code, written by a freelancer for a freelancer (themselves).
- Goal: stop juggling spreadsheets, lose fewer invoices, file taxes without panic.
- Built right as remote work, digital nomading, and the gig economy were exploding.
Why the gap?
Most software changelogs pretend to be a continuous stream of releases, even when they're not. Ours has a seven-year stretch with almost nothing in it, and we think that's worth being honest about: Docz.me was a side project that its founder loved but couldn't prioritize for years. It's only because the project survived that long — being used the whole time, including by the founder every single month — that it's worth reviving now.
The 2026 version you see today is a full rewrite, but it's built on ten years of personal use. Every feature exists because someone (usually us) needed it.