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My customers use my product to tell me how to be better. Yours could too.

Here’s something I didn’t fully appreciate when I built ReleaseLog:
The most valuable thing about a public feature request board isn’t the features you end up building. It’s what it does to the relationship between you and your users. When someone submits a request and sees it appear on your public roadmap they stop being a passive user. They become invested. They feel heard. They start rooting for you instead of quietly churning when something doesn’t work the way they expected.

I use ReleaseLog to build ReleaseLog. Our public page is live. Anyone can submit a feature request, vote on what gets built next, and watch it move from Planned to In Progress to Shipped. Last week someone requested a feature I hadn’t thought of. Two other people had already voted on the same idea before I even saw it. That’s the product telling me what to build next without a single meeting, survey, or support ticket.

Most founders treat user communication as a one-way street.
You ship something. You tell your users. They read it or they don’t. ReleaseLog makes it two-way. Your users tell you what’s broken, what’s missing, and what matters most to them. You build it. They see it happen. They stay. That’s not just a better product loop. That’s how you reduce churn without running a single retention campaign.

Start for free at tryreleaselog.com
Or see it working in real time on our own public page: https://tryreleaselog.com/p/releaselog-building-in-public

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on April 29, 2026
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