We launched a contrarian take on voting boards

After many requests to build public voting boards, we sat down to do it.

But we noticed that since UserVoice launched their first voting board in 2008, they'd rarely changed. 13 years later they look nicer and have a few more features, but it doesn't seem like anybody's actually asked: what's the goal of a voting board?

We realized current products were failing because they bias customers to give feedback that isn't necessarily true. And that causes software teams to waste money and time by building the wrong features.

So we built Savio's voting boards to help customers collect unbiased customer feedback on important feature requests.

They give you less biased feedback vs. existing boards because:

• You decide which features to collect feedback on (features are private unless you show them on your board)
• You can choose to hide upvotes (showing upvotes biases users to vote for popular features)
• You can sort features randomly, alphabetically, or by number of upvotes (sorting by popularity biases users to vote for popular features)

You can read the full take here:
https://www.savio.io/blog/a-contrarian-take-on-voting-boards/

I just sent out our "close the loop" emails to people who requested voting boards, so we'll see how it goes!