What's the best tool for product roadmaps to manage user feedback, long term items, and quick wins?

Question

Wishlist:
1. up voting
2. public roadmap for users
3. follow-up with users once feature was released
4. group by micro vs macro - bugs, quick wins, big chunks of work, etc.
5. group by 'in design', 'in dev'
6. timeline of past releases

We tried: 
Trello - only columns, no grouping, no voting without user creation, backlog becomes too full and hard to sort
Jira - way too complex
Github Projects - using it for dev work, don't want to open it up to too much noise
Excel/Google sheets - not visual enough, no commenting

Winston · Accepted Answer

Hey Stefan, your wishlist describes productboard!

It's a dedicated product management solution that helps you consolidate user feedback, prioritize what to build next, and share your product roadmap. You can even share a public facing Portal with colleagues & customers to collect upvotes and feedback, or to source new ideas.

Wishlist:
1. up voting ✅
2. public roadmap for users  ✅
3. follow-up with users once feature was released  ✅
4. group by micro vs macro - bugs, quick wins, big chunks of work, etc.  ✅
5. group by 'in design', 'in dev'  ✅
6. timeline of past releases  ✅

There's a free trial at productboard.com but don't hesitate to reach out with any other Qs. 👋
 hello@productboard.com

Karthik K · Answer

We recently launched hellonext with a goal to make customer feedback as simple as we could. The features you requested:

1. Users can upvote on posts/feedbacks
2. Public roadmap for users to see
3. Follow-up with the users once the feature is released
6. Timeline of past releases

These features are already present in hellonext. The features #4 and #5 are in-progress right now. The plans start at $25/mo for everything. Including integrations.

Naveen Honest Raj · Answer

hellonext focuses on building the 'right' features and saves a lot of time wasted on building the wrong features.
It also has both public as well private showcasing strategies to get feedbacks from customers or from the internal teams. Discussions and upvotes helps in prioritize the next step in the product's feature development or improvements.

James Lillian · Answer

Nice UI, great support. Good choice for those who want to build cool product roadmaps!

Ramon · Answer

More utilitarian yet simple and modern design. Fully featured agile based product development tool and by the way, it's far cheaper than Jira.

Iryna Maniuk · Answer

A+ for the Roadmap board and a clean, fast UI. The best alternative to Trello and JIRA  - Atlaz is simple to use yet the featureset is indeed impressive 👌 Bet you'll love the visual scheduler :)

Tanya Timmers · Answer

I think ProdPad is exactly what you're looking for. I've been it for storing ideas, customer feedback and roadmapping and love it.

Richard Rizk · Answer

Great tool to keep track of meetings, get automatically meeting minutes and 1-click search to retrace any moment of a conversation.

Kyle Conarro · Answer

Built on Intercom, Userfeed is a lightweight tool to log feedback within conversations (and gather directly from users in Intercom's messenger). You can push features to GitHub when it's time to build, and then easily message all interested users directly via Intercom when a feature is shipped.

If you're interested, sign up for a free trial at https://www.userfeed.io

Answer

Feature voting + roadmap + changelog, each with markup and image capabilites.

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

Roadmap software to manage your products. Finally, connect strategy to execution.

Pieter Walraven · Answer

Hate to break it to you, but I haven't seen any product doing this well besides Trello :)

fyi here's Trello's public roadmap using Trello...  https://trello.com/b/nC8QJJoZ/trello-development

Here's a blogpost of some other companies that use Trello for their public interactive roadmap: http://blog.trello.com/going-public-roadmapping-with-a-public-trello-board

Michael Dubakov · Answer

Visual, meets all requirements above, not as complex as JIRA

Vitaliy Verbenko · Answer

Helprace is right up your alley - helping with feedback, prioritization and assisting you with the roadmap. It has:
1. upvoting (and multiple increments, set limits)
2. have a roadmap for users
3. follow up with users when features released (via email)
4. grouping options
5. categorization and sub-categories

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

Quickly plan and show your strategy to get alignment across your entire organization.

Abhilash Jain · Answer

This has worked great for me, it's a great way to list down thoughts, ideas, plan. Clean UI, 
also the experience is great, don't take my word for it, try it yourself.

Answer

Just released the version 2 of DriveMyDev. Basically it has everything you are looking for in an easy widget to install everywhere:
1. "trade-off" upvoting mechanism on open features
2. public roadmap for users
3. grouping by updates (with sub categories News/Improvement/Fix/Logs), Features, Bug, Tips
4. follow-up mechanism - SOON available

Plus a couple of interesting features:
1. Integration with Telegram (new Telegram message by a new feature request/bug)
2. Integration with Todoist
3. Integration with Twitter - SOON available.
4. Support images/file attached to updates
5. Support for Emoji and Markdown

Hope it helps!
Best,
Maurizio

Tomáš Vestenický · Answer

Hey Stefan,

your wishes may be satisfied with FeedBear.
It offers a more minimal approach, keeping everything neat and organized.

There's a free 14 day trial, but if you need more time or have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me at tomas@feedbear.com.

Ola Rybacka · Answer

Hi Stefan, hope HeySpace will be the product you choose! It's the combination of Trello and Slack in one, entirely free to use tool. It has Kanban-based task management, workspaces, group and 1-1 conversations and many more features that you'll find useful!