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What public roadmap tool do you use?

Well, we've got to the stage where customers are asking us for a public roadmap for our SaaS so that they can see what is upcoming, plus be able to vote or nominate features to be added to that list.

We currently have a Trello board we use internally for our roadmap, and we don't really want to make that public because there is a lot of stuff on there which is specific to internal build changes we want to make etc. that we don't necessarily want our users to see.

What does everyone else use to give your users visibility into where you are heading, or your future development plans? Any IH-ers built a service like this that you can point me to?

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    Hi Devan - we're building Noora (https://noorahq.com), which is another tool in this space. At the moment we are primarily a feature request and voting app, but plan to expand more into the product management space in the future too.

    One tip I'd suggest is to look at a tool that integrates with your support system (I see you use HelpScout ... which we're working on an integration for). Having a good integration here will ramp up the amount of feedback and voting you get. As well as make it easy for you to add any votes to existing requests from inbound support.

    HR Partner looks cool, and since we're still pretty early, I'd be happy to let you use Noora for free for a period so you can see if it fits your needs.

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      Hey Glenn,

      Noora looks really cool - thanks for the heads up. I will have a chat to my co-founder and see if we can take it for a spin!

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    Hi Devan,

    I faced similar questions and created Productific for exactly that: a SaaS to show your planned roadmap, run feature voting and collect feature requests from your users.

    It comes with a free plan for testing and initial use. Compared to other roadmap tools it is made for easy and frictionless usage.

    Available here: https://productific.com

    Just PM in case I can help with anything...

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      Nice work Frank! I will go and check this out to see if it will fit our needs!

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    Hej Devan. I am working on something like this, maybe it could be useful for you as well.
    Example: https://ideas.useridea.io
    Feel free to give it a try: https://ideas.useridea.io/signup

    It is very flexible and you can adjust statuses, columns, custom domain, logo, color scheme, etc.

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      Thanks for the heads up Ruben! I will definitely take a look at your app.

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    Why not start with just a simple page on your website?

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      Did consider that, but the pain of manually maintaining that every week or so isn't something that excites me. Would. be nice to have things like customer voting on certain features to help us prioritise. I am just too busy working on my main product to have time to build out that functionality. But if I can't find anything that suits (at a good cost) then I might have to.

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    Hey, I have benchmarked multiple solution and I finally made the choice of using ProductBoard. We use it nicely on our roadmap

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      Very nice! Does ProductBoard allow you to rearrange the tabs? i.e. have 'In Progress' as the first one, then the 'wishlist' etc. towards the end?

      Also - Looks like a really nice service you have there too. Once we get less busy here at my startup, I'd like to take a closer look at your repo -> deploy service.

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        Yes ProductBoard is a bit customizable - not too much but just the necessary and it's fine (tabs, sections, custom domain, your logo and your primary color).

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    If you use Github and have an organization account, why not make use of the projects feature? A SaaS I am using does that and I think it is a pretty good and easy solution: https://github.com/checkly/product-roadmap/projects/1

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