Upvoted: a feature request board your users actually use
Collect feature requests in public, let people vote, and publish the roadmap and changelog that follow from it. The queue stops being a mystery and starts being evidence.
- Boards your users actually use
- Votes, statuses, and a changelog
- A roadmap driven by real demand
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Every product accumulates a shadow backlog: the feature someone asked for in a support chat, the idea buried in a reply to a newsletter, the thing three customers mentioned on calls that nobody wrote down. It is real demand, and it is scattered across places where it cannot be counted.
Upvoted gives that demand one address. Users post ideas on a public board, other users vote on them, and what rises to the top is a ranked list of what your customers actually want, not what the most persistent emailer wants. You move items through statuses as you work, and each change is visible to the people who asked.
It is the listening half of the Releasy Suite. Hookfire tells you what your product just did; Upvoted tells you what to build next.
What a board gives you
A feature request board is not a suggestion box. Done properly it is three things at once: a queue, a vote count, and a communication channel back to the people who care most.
Requests in one place
Anyone can post an idea, and on Max duplicates get merged into the original so the vote count stays honest. Instead of the same request arriving five times through five channels, it arrives once with five votes attached.
Votes that mean something
A vote carries a name and an email, whether the person signed in or posted as a guest, so the ranking counts distinct people rather than clicks. You can see who voted for what, which turns a shipped feature into a list of customers to tell about it.
Statuses and a public roadmap
Every board starts with six statuses, Pending, Approved, In Progress, Done, Rejected and Published, and you rename them or add your own per board. Move an item along and the board doubles as a roadmap, so users stop asking when something is coming because the answer is on the page they already read.
A changelog the people who asked will read
Write a release note, link it to the requests it delivers, and everyone who asked for them gets an email when you publish. Schedule it if you want it to go out later.
Built to be used, not just installed
Most feedback boards fail the same way: they get set up, linked from the footer, and then nobody posts. The fixes are unglamorous and they are the difference between a board and an empty room.
Embed it where people already are
Drop the widget into your app so requests are made in the moment of frustration, not remembered later. The board that lives inside the product gets an order of magnitude more posts than the one that lives on a subdomain.
Low friction to post
Posting takes a title and a sentence. Voting takes one click. Every extra required field is a percentage of your users who close the tab instead.
Answer in public
Replying on the item, including saying no with a reason, is the single strongest signal that the board is read. A board with visible owner replies keeps filling; a board without them dies in a month.
How teams use it
The same board serves product, support and marketing, which is most of why it is worth having one rather than a spreadsheet.
Prioritisation with evidence
When two features compete for the same sprint, vote counts and the identity of the voters make the argument concrete. It is much easier to defer something when you can see it has four votes and the alternative has forty. On Max an admin also scores impact and effort from 1 to 5, and the board ranks by votes multiplied by impact and divided by effort, on a four-quadrant matrix the public board never shows.
Talk it through without the public hearing
Internal comments are a Max feature: the team argues about an idea underneath the request itself rather than in a thread nobody can find later, and an @mention tells the person who should be reading it.
Tagging that happens on its own
On Max, new requests are tagged against the tags your board already uses, so a queue that arrived over six months is still something you can filter rather than a wall of titles.
Support deflection
Half of support tickets that begin “does it do X” end with a link to a board item and a status. That is a conversation that used to take three emails.
A reason to come back
Users who vote get told when their item ships. That is a re-engagement email you did not have to invent a pretext for.
It does not have to be the last stop
A board that ends at the board becomes a second backlog to keep in sync. These are the ways a request leaves Upvoted and arrives where the work actually happens.
Send it to Linear or GitHub
Turn a request into an issue in the tracker your team already works from, on Max, so the thing your users asked for and the thing on your board are the same thing.
Bring your old board with you
Import from a Canny export or a CSV on any paid plan. Canny's export carries the vote count but not the voters, so counts come over and Upvoted does not invent the people behind them.
Slack, Zapier and signed webhooks
On Max a new request or a status change can post into Slack, run a Zap, or hit your own endpoint as a signed webhook, which is usually how a board ends up on a wall display.
Let an assistant read the board
Upvoted ships an MCP server on Max, so an AI assistant can read your boards and requests where you already work instead of you pasting them into a chat.
Make it look like your product
Max is where the board stops looking like a tool you bought: your own theme and background, your own stylesheet, and the Upvoted branding off the widget and the public board entirely.
Who Upvoted is for
- SaaS products
- Run the public roadmap your customers keep asking for, and stop maintaining it by hand.
- Open source projects
- Give the feature-request pile a home that is not the issue tracker, and let votes do the triage.
- Internal tools
- A private board for colleagues, on Max, works exactly the same way and settles the same arguments.
- Early-stage products
- When you have fifty users, the board is the fastest way to find out which of them want the same thing.
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What is Upvoted?
Upvoted is a feature request and feedback board. Your users post ideas, vote on each other's, and follow items through your board's statuses, which start out as Pending, Approved, In Progress, Done, Rejected and Published and can be renamed to whatever your team already says. It doubles as your public roadmap and changelog.
Can I embed the feature request board in my own app?
Yes. Upvoted provides an embeddable widget so users can post and vote without leaving your product, which is where the large majority of real feedback comes from.
Do users need an account to vote?
Votes are tied to identified users so the ranking counts distinct people rather than clicks. That also means you know who to notify when their request ships.
Can I keep a board private?
Yes, on the Max plan. Private boards are a Max feature, and they use the same voting, status and changelog mechanics as a public one.
Can I move my board over from Canny?
Yes. Any paid plan can import a Canny export or a CSV, and a second run of the same file skips what it already brought over. Canny's export carries each post's vote count but not the people behind it, so the counts come across and nothing invents the voters.
How is Upvoted different from Canny or Nolt?
The mechanics are familiar: board, votes, statuses, changelog. Max adds the parts that decide what you build, including impact and effort scoring on top of votes, internal comments, automatic tagging, and pushing a request into Linear or GitHub. The other difference is that Upvoted comes with Hookfire and Indie Polls on one login and one bill at $69 a month, so feedback, alerts and surveys are not three separate subscriptions.
How much does Upvoted cost?
Upvoted is included in the Releasy Suite at $69 a month, alongside Hookfire and Indie Polls, and starts with a 7-day free trial. On its own site it sells Pro at $19 a month or $190 a year, which is one board and two seats, and Max at $39 a month or $390 a year for unlimited boards and seats and every feature above.
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