Eithiriel DeMerè

Goosly - Free tool to share build-in-public plans with your audience

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Goosly is a free, simple roadmap tool for build-in-public projects. It allows you to style, embed and share project and product plans with a community, in the form of a roadmap that can be duplicated, used and shared for free.

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Hey Product Hunt folk 👋 I'm Biro, co-founder at Jexo, the makers of Goosly, and I'm hyped about our launch on Product Hunt 🎊 Our new app is an intuitive and super fast way to sketch a plan using a timeline. You can plan an open source product, keep track of your crypto project or communicate your #buildinpublic progress. And the tool is entirely free to use. Why we built it In the past, no matter how many planning tools I had available, I would always go back to sketching on a piece of paper or a whiteboard when I needed to capture a timeline of events quickly; be it draft execution strategies at work or brainstorming organizing an event. Planning tools are jam-packed with configuration steps that take time to untangle and require a certain working method. But most of the time all we need is a quick way to sketch what we're thinking and that's why we built Goosly. It enables you to sketch your plans, customize them and share quickly. How it works 👉 All you have to do is create a free account then: 👉 Create a new roadmap page 👉 Start drawing your activities 👉 Write some context to describe your plan 👉 Give it a name and personality with custom styling 👉 Publish and share it by email or publicly What it does 🔥 Create an unlimited number of roadmap pages, for free 🔥 Create timeline rows to group your activities 🔥 Generate custom colors for groups or individual items 🔥 Use emojis as visual indicators or to indicate status 🔥 Use it in either dark or light mode 🔥 Work with zoom levels to plan, from daily to quarterly and yearly 🔥 Add rich text to activities and the content area; use tables, lists, and images 🔥 Style your page with background colors and Unsplash images 🔥 Give roadmap pages titles and subtitles 🔥 Make pages private, have them unlisted or public 🔥 Invite collaborators to update your plans 🔥 Use the Discover section to find useful templates and roadmaps 🔥 Copy and rebase existing timeline plans 🔥 Embed plans in your website or documentation systems Why it’s free Goosly has a sibling called Swanly. Swanly is Jexo's most successful Jira app for planning and tracking issues on a timeline view. It has a lot of bells and whistles, and it's what generates a good portion of our current revenue. Goosly has the same roadmap timeline engine as Swanly does, but we built a different product around it, a simpler solution for the less savvy user. What does this mean, actually? We’re not in a rush to monetize Goosly because we generate revenue from Swanly and our other Atlassian paid apps. And sharing the same feature means less overhead in development for Goosly. Future plans. The product has a lot of potential, and we plan to continue improving the experience and value that it adds to your life. Some of the upcoming improvements include making it even faster for creating plans, improving usability at the day-level activities, a better text editor, more filters, and so on. The core roadmap feature will stay free forever, without limitations. We do have plans to extend the value of Goosly by adding integrations with other tools, team-level functionality, and more advanced work planning features under a paid plan. So give it a try and join our Discord community for feedback and to chat about anything related to roadmaps. https://discord.gg/keDUSrHCUF
Eithiriel DeMerè
@florin_biro Congrats to you and your team! 🥰 I'm wondering, what are some of the most popular use cases you've seen so far for building our roadmaps?
@nikkielizdemere that's a great question! Some super fit use cases so far: build-in-public startups, crypto projects, open-source software, showing feature development plans for your product
Christian Reichert
Thanks @Biro to invite me to be part of the livestream for this great product launch. We are live soon
It's been great using the product for the last 3 weeks ... so enjoy!
Nikki Zavadska
@biro @christian_reichert thanks for posting the link! 🎥
Eithiriel DeMerè
@biro @christian_reichert What a festive launch party. I love it!
Andrés Sotomayor
This seems like a really cool roadmap tool and I love it is free! UI is really intuitive and is packed with tons of features.
Nikki Zavadska
@andressotomayor thank you! 🙏 most recent ui improvement was adding emojis to the activities. Which is actually a great way to easily communicate statuses like done in progress or not started 🚀
Eithiriel DeMerè
@andressotomayor What's your fav. feature? ♥️
Andy - Old Street
I think the best way to describe this amazing product in one word is ^EFFORTLESS^ I also love that all features are currently free. It makes adoption of a product so easy & seamless. Great job Jexo. You guys are #BestInClass!
Nikki Zavadska
@andy_old_street thank you 🤘we hope Goosly to be like next Trello for roadmaps!
🚀 Ch Daniel
🔝 Super interesting - will be using this for our roadmap!
Nikki Zavadska
@chddaniel thanks 😊 let us know if you have any feedback. New batch of improvements is coming soon so all ideas are welcome 💡!
Eithiriel DeMerè
@chddaniel Hi friend! Which projects are you building in public?
Melissa Castan
Goosly looks so much fun, already using it to do my planning 🙌
Nikki Zavadska
@melissa_castan1 thanks Mel! Great tool for planning marketing activities right? 👏
Melissa Castan
@nikola_zavadska definitely, found it easy and simple to use, love that I can customize so many things in the UI 🤓
Eithiriel DeMerè
@melissa_castan1 Hi Melissa! Are you using it for day-to-day planning?
Tiaan Joubert
Absolutely love being able to create such an amazing roadmap. Great for planning big or even smaller projects in detail, I would recommend it to any team.
Nikki Zavadska
@tiaan_joubert thank you! You can also easily share your plan outside your team by making roadmap unlisted or public. Easy way to keep track of main milestones for smaller cross organisational projects 👏
Daniel Reimer
Congrats! Being able to share timelines in such an easy way is great.
Nikki Zavadska
@daniel_reimer thanks ☺️ You can even choose who can see your roadmap. Public for everyone to see or private for invite only 🔒
Marvin Meyer-Kahlen
Very cool tool. And awesome that you offer it for free! A Trello integration would be very cool.
Nikki Zavadska
@marvin_meyer_kahlen thanks! We’re really passionate about planning and roadmapping so creating super easy roadmapping tool anyone can use was no brainier for us. Trello integration is on the top of our list 👍
Jenn Velazquez
It's great how easy it is to embed your roadmaps anywhere! Love it. Can't wait to see how the app evolves
Nikki Zavadska
@jennifer_velazquez thanks! It’s as easy as embedding youtube video right? Anyone can now share their roadmap on their website and you can even choose if you would like to have roadmap in light or dark more when embedding 🌙
Vladyslav Puhach
Interesting tool. I'll give it a try! It would be cool for me to schedule sports events or my yearly goals with it!
Nikki Zavadska
@vladyslav_puhach haha thanks! Yes we did see the roadmaps like formula 1 events schedules or football ⚽️ 🏎
Leonardo Nunes
This is awesome 🤩 finally some nice roadmap I can embed on my product page.
Nikki Zavadska
@leonardonunes thanks 🙏 indeed it’s great for sharing your plans with your audience or customers to keep them in the loop on your progress.
Eithiriel DeMerè
@leonardonunes Hey, I'd love to check out your product page!
Viacheslav Maznov
great solution. worth to chek it out)
Nikki Zavadska
@viacheslav_maznov thank you! 🤩 happy you find Goosly useful.
Chris Cooke
Very cool. The missing piece of project management in jira.
Nikki Zavadska
@chris_cooke thanks 🙏! Public roadmaps for Jira? What a great idea!
Mykhailo Marshalok
Looks cool! I will definitely use it:blush: Do you plan to develop other free and simple tools? Maybe for building graphs and diagrams?
Nikki Zavadska
@mykhailo_marshalok we have a few Jira Cloud adons that are free for up to 10 users! Diagraming sounds interesting @chris_cooke what do you think?
Raju PP
The dark mode implementation is 👌
Willian Krause
The app is looking great! And the dark mode is TOP!
Eduardo Oliveira
Roadmaps should be always that easy - kudos @florin_biro, @nikola_zavadska and all Jexo team great job🔥
@nikola_zavadska @eduardo_oliveira2 Thanks for the support Eduardo. We'll make them easier yet ;)
Eithiriel DeMerè
Goosly is a really cool, free app if you want to create roadmap timelines for build-in-public projects. If you’re into simple, inclusive tools, then you’re probably going to love this. 🤩
Valter Junior
Congrats on launching the app! Any plans to integrate with Trello soon?
Nikki Zavadska
@jvcjunior thank you! We’re planning to introduce integrations with other tools and Trello is on the top of our list. Goosly free roadmaps in combination with free kanban boards in Trello will make for a great toolset for startups! 🚀