— The journal · on listening & shipping
Field notes on feedback, prioritization, roadmaps, and changelogs — the craft of building what your users actually asked for.
— Latest · Oct 30, 2026
Suggester shut down in 2025. Suggestions Bot, Aethor, Carl-bot and Suggestion Bot compared on voting, anonymous ideas and staff review, October 2026.
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Oct 29, 2026
What 18 months of building featurevote taught me about when to build your own feedback tool, when to buy one, and when to keep things simple. Includes a build prompt for an internal board.
Oct 22, 2026
One line of code adds a feedback bubble to an app you built with an AI app builder. Your users suggest ideas and vote on them without leaving your app or making an account.
Oct 10, 2026
Feature Upvote prices each board from $49 a month after a 30-day trial. Five alternatives compared on price, free plans and Discord, checked October 2026.
Oct 5, 2026
Requests come in by email, chat and calls, and bugs and your own ideas compete with them. This is a simple way small teams handle all of it, in four steps.
Sep 25, 2026
Most feature requests end with a status change nobody sees. Here is how to close the feedback loop in Featurevote, from marking a request done to answering the people still waiting.
Aug 31, 2026
Connect Featurevote to your AI assistant. Ask what your users want most, catch up before a customer call, or draft the changelog when something ships.
Aug 30, 2026
Featurevote lets players on your game server suggest and vote on what to add next, right in Discord. Unlike a poll, the board stays up and ranks itself.
The feature voting market moved this year. Big tools went upmarket, flat-priced tools filled the gap, and voting without an account became standard. Prices checked August 2026.
Aug 27, 2026
Let patrons suggest ideas and vote on a shared board with featurevote. Choose how much each Patreon tier's vote counts, then decide what to make next.