In March 2020 we launched a Productroad feedback management and feature upvoting tool on Producthunt and that launch was a complete failure.
Even though we had a great hunter and a good product, the launch was a failure. Let’s look at the reasons for this and what we did the second time around.
Productroad was bootstrapped and has zero funding so we know how hard it can be to manage the budget of your startup. Indie makers face the problem of lack of paid customers and growing of spends (yeah, we all need to pay for hosting) especially often.
To help small startups and Indie makers we made a free plan. So if you are looking for an open-source or free alternative to UserVoice or Canny our free plan could be a great choice.
Productroad is a feedback management tool that was founded in 2020 and it is not the first service for feedback management. We want to make a review of some good services for feedback management that inspired us to create Productroad. Most of the user-gathering apps are mostly set of boards with feature upvoting, but there … Read more