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Getting Started

From an empty board to your first real votes

Welcome to FeatureVote. This guide takes you from an empty board to the one thing that matters most in your first week: real users voting on your board. Boards that collect a genuine external vote early tend to stay active — boards that don't tend to go quiet.

Here's the whole path, start to finish. If you'd rather watch it than read it — from nothing to a live board in under a minute:

Create a feature voting board in 2 minutes

1. Your board is already there

You don't create a board manually. When your workspace is set up, FeatureVote creates a public board for you automatically — named after your account, with a public link ready to share.

Open Feature Voting in your dashboard and you'll land on it.

A public feature board listing requests sorted by vote count, with Requested, Planned, In Progress and Completed tabs
Your public board: visitors vote, sort and filter without signing in.

2. Fill your board in a minute

An empty board gives visitors nothing to vote on. On a board with no features yet, you'll see a card titled "Fill your board in a minute".

Paste your product's URL, click Draft starter requests, and FeatureVote drafts a handful of starter feature requests from your site. Review and edit them, then click Publish — they go live on your board so there's something real to vote on right away.

See Seed your board from a URL → for the full walkthrough. You can also add requests by hand with New Feature Request.

3. Get your first votes

Once your board has features but no visitor votes yet, a "Get your first votes" card appears at the top of your dashboard with your board link and an Get embed code button.

This step is the whole game. Put your board where users will actually see it:

  • Add the launch button to your app's nav, help, or account menu.
  • Link the board from your onboarding emails and product footer.
  • Drop the full board on a /feedback or /roadmap page.

The more visible the link, the more votes you collect. See Install FeatureVote → for every install option.

4. Close the loop

A checklist on your dashboard tracks four milestones:

  1. Add your first feature
  2. Get your first vote
  3. Ship your first feature — mark a request Done to notify everyone who voted
  4. Publish your first changelog — tell users what shipped

When all four are done, you've closed the feedback loop: users ask, vote, and hear back when it ships. That's the habit that keeps a board alive.

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