I made an embeddable user feedback tool – free for open source
Hi HN, After I finished my thesis on feedback management for SaaS at the end of last year, I thought it was time to do something hands-on that topic. Since I like the idea of such feedback tools, that lets you collaborate with users to find solutions together - instead of having a separated feedback from each user - this became my starting point. I also like the approach of the chat widgets as they make it easy for users to get in touch with the people behind the app. So I tried to combine these two approaches with sleekplan.com. Here are some of the main features: * Collect & discuss…
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Hi HN, After I finished my thesis on feedback management for SaaS at the end of last year, I thought it was time to do something hands-on that topic. Since I like the idea of such feedback tools, that lets you collaborate with users to find solutions together - instead of having a separated feedback from each user - this became my starting point. I also like the approach of the chat widgets as they make it easy for users to get in touch with the people behind the app. So I tried to combine these two approaches with sleekplan.com. Here are some of the main features: * Collect & discuss feedback with an embedded widget * Calculate an impact score for feedback items based on different factors (such as weight, users satisfaction, user engagement), * Categories for different types of feedback (Feature requests, missing integrations, bugs) * Custom statuses * Roadmap * Changelog * Notify „followers“ that are watching specific feedback items on status updates * Keep discussions simple (jump straight into discussions via email) I initially focused on developing the tool itself. The next step is an integration to sync Github issues. I'm sure there's plenty of room for improvement, so what do you think about it? I would really appreciate your feedback, don’t be nice, say anything that sucks. As Bill Gates says: „We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve“.
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