IdeaFit — The concept

This will be the first post in a series in which I'll be trying to generate some ideas, understand what I want to build, and solidify my vision.

Basically, that's my way of thinking out loud while trying to build a feedback SaaS product called "IdeaFit" (https://ideafit.io/ — yes, I've already bought the domain 🦌).

So let's start with the concept.

In my head, IdeaFit is a vivid, colorful board, absolutely user-friendly and stupidly straightforward. There's a list of feedback messages, there's an "upvote" button and a form for adding feedback.

The board

There are 3 main categories of feedback I can think of: ideas, bugs, and questions.

An idea is basically a feature request. The site owner can consider if that's something he wants to implement, and the vote counter helps him make that decision.

A bug is usually just a request to fix something on the website. I'm still not sure if bugs need to have a vote button, what do you think?

A question is the most interesting feedback form. Very often questions are feature requests in disguise ("Is there a way to import my data from a different website?") or bug reports ("Why can't I download the PDF file. It worked yesterday!"). I imagine people would want to post those privately.

Feedback form

The form has just three fields for now (type picker, title, and text/body). Trying to make it simple and intuitive.

Small UX interactions would include:

• putting focus into the title field, so a user could start typing right away
• setting the type picker default value according to what page the user came from
• finally, this beautiful text transition effect I spent an hour today to implement 😋

That'd be it for today fellow hackers, the next time we'll talk about themes, colors, fonts, and I will recommend you several great books. See ya!