We're excited to introduce a brand-new changelog widget that allows you to showcase the latest changes in your app in a lightweight and beautiful popup.

It supports both light and dark modes and adapts to your brand colors to look like a native part of your app.

The widget can be added in just a few minutes, simply follow this guide from our help center.

You can also view a live demo from our Dashboard's "Latest changes" button.

We're thrilled to release a complete rework of our changelog editor with massive improvements.

The new changelog editor now auto-saves all your work, so you never have to worry about it getting lost.

Furthermore, you can now add featured images to the changelogs to highlight the most significant changes.

The fresh design makes writing release notes so enjoyable you'll want to share every single update in your app.

We'll be releasing additional improvements and more features to the changelog in the coming days. Stay tuned!

We're super excited to launch huge improvements to Featurebase to help you manage and analyze user feedback even better. ✨

Here's what's new:

• Featurebase SDK: You can now use our SDK to easily sync your user data with Featurebase to sort and view posts by custom attributes, user monthly spending, and more.

  Read more here ➜

• User Segmentation: We've added advanced user segmentation to Featurebase to help you sort feedback by groups that matter the most. 

• Get More Insights From Posts: The data you send to Featurebase about your users is now directly visible from the post view, so you always know who the feedback author is.

• Prioritize posts from important customers: When you identify users, you can add their monthly spending. If that data is available, it is used to show you the total value of the post by adding up the value of all upvoters - enabling better feature prioritization.

• User Module Rework: We've redesigned the User Module from the ground up to be more efficient and easier to use. 

Improvements:

• Dropdown Improvements: We've made several enhancements to the dropdown menus for a smoother user experience. All important dropdowns now support keyboard shortcuts and allow you to manage posts faster.

• Better API Documentation: We've launched our improved API documentation.

  Read more here ➜

Our goal is to make Featurebase the best possible user feedback tool, and we've got a super exciting product roadmap ahead.

Featurebaes now allows your employees or support teams to track feedback internally.

You can set your organization private and allow access to only people with an email address associated with your domain.

This is great for ensuring your team is always up to date on ideas you are working on and it gives a central place for managing feedback or customer requests internally.

We've reworked post statuses to provide you with more customization options and better control over how you manage your workflow.

You can now easily:

• Change the default status for new posts

• Customize status colors:

  

• Hide completed and canceled posts from the public board to maintain a clean and focused view for your visitors:

  

• Easily filter between under review, planned, and active posts from your dashboard posts page:

  

With the latest update, the tags have been reworked to allow you to use colors, hide them from public users, and quickly search or create new ones from any post.

Head over to your Featurebase Dashboard -> Settings -> Tags to add color to your existing tags.

You can also make tags private to hide them from all public board visitors. It's great for giving more context to a post internally.

To create new tags you no longer have to go to the settings. Just type the name of your new tag into the Tag dropdown input field and click "Create new".

Infrastructure upgrades 📐

Due to recently increasing server loads, we made significant upgrades to our infrastructure to enable faster loading times and greater reliability.

New features and bug fixes 💡

In addition to that, we shipped some features to help you manage feedback even better:

• You can send metadata along with a post to identify what version of your app a client is using & other custom information

• Reorder boards, statuses, and tags from the settings

• Support for code blocks in the text editor

• Fixed a bug with navigating to all posts from the public board

• Embed Youtube videos (Support for all video types is coming soon)

• Can now mark onboarding steps as completed from one button

• Changed board prefilled content to use placeholder rather than text

• Featurebase will continue tracking your Linear issue when you convert it into a project

and many other small bug fixes...

Affiliate program ⭐

We also launched our affiliate program. If you love using Featurebase and want to share it with others, you can now get a nice 35% commission for a year: https://featurebase.getrewardful.com/signup

Our official Slack integration is now live!

Here are the possibilities:

• Automatically send new Featurebase post notifications to a specific Slack channel and manage it from there

• Send existing Slack messages to Featurebase with the "Send to Featurebase" shortcut button

• Use the /featurebase command to send feedback to Featurebase from Slack

Learn more from our setup video and documentation.

Our Linear integration is now live to help you automatically push all new feedback to Linear and reflect development from your public feedback board & roadmap.

Here are the possibilities:

• Sync Linear issues with Featurebase posts

• Featurebase automatically notifies users when you change the status of their requested posts

• Let people vote on features and have new feedback automatically appear in your Linear backlog or triage

• Easily hop between linked Featurebase posts from Linear to clarify any use cases

Learn more from our setup video and documentation.

You can now merge duplicate and similar posts into one.

You can merge posts from the top right "Manage post" section:

When using post moderation, you can merge new pending posts into similar existing ones from the pending dropdown at the dashboard:

We're happy to announce a lot of improvements and new features to Featurebase. 😊

Dashboard improvements:

The Dashboard has received an extensive rework with countless improvements.

1. Select multiple posts and perform actions on them - You can now select multiple posts by hovering over the left side of a post and do bulk changes on them.

   

2. Change Status, Board, and Tags straight from the main view - Change post parameters straight from the Dashboard posts page by clicking on the Status, Board, or Tag element to open a dropdown.

   

3. New filters - Filters have been reworked to be easier to use.

   

4. Approve posts from dropdown - Rather than opening the post you can approve and reject posts from the main view.

   

Roadmap improvements:

The Roadmap also received tons of improvements with this update.

1. You can now change the Status, Board, and Tags straight from the roadmap view - This is similar to the changes on the Dashboard posts page.

2. Quarterly and monthly roadmap - When you change the ETA for posts, you can visualize your product roadmap in a monthly and quarterly view now.

   

3. More filtering options & Reworked mobile view - You can now apply a lot of new filters to the roadmap view and the mobile view has also received a rework:

   

Changelog improvements:

1. Scheduling - You can now set an exact date and time for when you want your changelog to be released.

   

2. Reworked design - The changelog should now be more intuitive to use with new design changes.

Widget improvements:

1. Widget light mode - The widget now supports light mode and defaults to the user's default system settings.

   

2. Improved design - The widget's layout has also received a slight rework with a nice gradient.

Settings improvements:

The settings page has been reorganized to make it easier to find stuff.

Linear integration:

Featurebase now has an amazing integration with Linear that allows you to sync the state of tasks between the two tools.

Learn more from Dashboard -> Settings -> Linear.

+ Tons of other bug fixes and performance improvements

This is just a small set of features that we worked on in January. 🙂

Expect tons of other polishing changes and new features in Q1.

You can now change the default theme of your public feedback board to light or dark.

This will force the theme of your public board to be light or dark (even if the user's system color scheme is different) and remove the theme selector.

You can enable it from Dashboard -> Settings -> Branding -> Default theme:

You can now set a date/quarter for when you expect to release a new feature

This is incredibly useful for letting users know when to expect something new in your app.

Quarterly roadmaps are now also available

After setting ETA's for posts, you can visualize your quarterly roadmap from Dashboard.

We are super excited to launch our feature validator popup.

Here's how it works ✨

1. Find a feature you want to validate and click "Validate feature" from the menu.

2. Copy-paste a few lines of code into your app and make the popup open from your desired button or element.

3. Preview how important a feature is and how many people have subscribed to receive updates from it.

4. You just saved a lot of time by not building a feature no one cared about. ✅

Read more about it from our documentation.

You can now prioritize your product development by looking at what posts are getting the most upvotes each week/month.

Head to Dashboard -> Posts and choose 🔥Trending posts from the dropdown to try it out:

You can now prefill the content section of a new post to get more structured feedback.

Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Boards -> Edit the board you want to enable it for.

You can now customize your post statuses from Dashboard -> Settings -> Statuses.

This is a great feature if your workflow has extra steps.

In order to prevent spammers & inappropriate posts, we released the post moderation feature.

With post moderation, new posts won't be visible on the public board before you approve them.

You can enable this feature from Dashboard -> Settings -> Permissions.

Add Featurebase Discord bot to your server and your users get access to the /feedback command to submit feedback, feature requests & bug reports straight from your channels.

Set it up from Dashboard -> Settings -> Discord Bot.

Post suggestions:

We are incredibly happy to announce this very important new feature.

With the new suggestions, there will be almost no duplicate posts (Posters are shown related posts).

Improved Typography Settings:

You now have more control over how your feedback board's Call To Action section looks.

Go to Settings -> Typography -> Description to find out more.

Sort posts by Tags:

You can now also sort posts using tags from your Featurebase Dashboard.

1. You can now hide certain categories from your public roadmap from Settings -> Roadmap -> Excluded Categories

2. You can also now customize your feedback board name from Settings -> Typography -> Public board menu button

You can now embed your Featurebase feedback board, changelog, and roadmap as a widget.

Go to your Dashboard -> Settings -> Widget to learn more.

You can now subscribe users to post changes manually.

Click the Plus icon next to the upvoters to vote on behalf of users:

In the popup, you can see all the people that have subscribed, add new ones, and remove existing ones:

After a lot of requests, we have finally added light mode to the Dashboard. 😊

Turn it on from the bottom left menu:

Email notifications & the feedback portal just got much much better 😊

Here is what we changed 👇

• Post/changelog email notifications now include all the styling of the original source.

• Redesigned all notification/service emails.

• Improved design of the feedback portal, especially for the light mode.

One of the most requested features has finally been added to Featurebase. 🥳 You can now authenticate users with your own app's credentials. Read more about this feature from:

Dashboard -> Settings -> SSO.

We are super excited to launch the biggest update we have ever made to Featurebase. This update is a complete redesign of our user interface & includes a lot of new extra features.

Here is a list of changes we made 👇

• A complete UI redesign

• Added Statistics page to the dashboard

• Added Inbox page to the dashboard

• Zapier integration

• You can now create completely private organizations to manage feedback internally

• Added rich-text-editor to post comments

Your users no longer have to sign in to post comments. Enable anonymous commenting from Dashboard -> Settings -> Anonymous Comments.

You can now customize everything about the CTA section - the title, description, and button text as well! Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Call To Action Section to change the defaults.

With the new update, you can ask your users to categorize their feedback even more. To enable this go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Custom Tags and enable "Add Tag When Creating Submission". After that, all users can select tags when creating new submissions.

Getting started with Featurebase just became a lot easier. New users now go through a simple onboarding tour to help them understand the product easier and faster.

After quite a lot of requests, we have finally added private categories. Private categories and posts made under it are only visible to admins in your organization, that way, you can keep track of some tasks internally. You can go to your Dashboard → Settings → Categories to create a new private category.

Featurebases' rocket engines just got upgraded. Feedback board load times just got over 5 times quicker.

Hide changelog feature

You can now hide the changelog page from your public feedback board if you do not wish to use it. You can disable it from Dashboard -> Settings -> Changelog Settings.

You can now view your dashboard without burning your eyes :)

Here is a preview of the new design:

You can now save your changelog first as a draft to finish writing it up later.

Roadmap entries can now be sorted by categories, click on the chosen category above the submissions to do that.

Unlimited feedback 📃

All Featurebase plans now allow for receiving unlimited feedback. No more worrying about hitting submission limits.

Indie Hacker Plan 🐱‍💻

We are excited to announce a new plan in Featurebase that's meant for smaller teams looking to receive feedback at a low cost.

Here is what you get with the Indie Hacker Plan:

• Unlimited feedback
• Unlimited tracked users
• One manager
• 1 Category
• Anonymous upvoting
• Anonymous posting
• Changelog
• Roadmap

The cost of the new plan is 15$/month

Changes to old plans 🆕

We have changed some things around the the old plans. Here is what we did.

Startup:

• Unlimited feedback
• Unlimited tracked users
• 3 Managers
• 3 Categories
• Custom domain
• Custom tags
• Changelog
• Roadmap

The new startup plan costs 25$/month. Old subscriptions will still remain at the old price, however.

Scale:

• Unlimited feedback
• Unlimited tracked users
• 10 Managers
• Unlimited Categories
• Custom domain
• Custom tags
• Changelog
• Roadmap

New marketing page

We have redesigned our marketing page. Check it out at https://featurebase.app