Hello Product Hunt! For the last year, I’ve seen how many people around the world rely on maps to do their jobs. After we introduced the beta version of Felt, I was excited to see maps that folks create to make and impact and build community. From sketching out site plans, to coordinating disaster responses and understanding the changing climate, Felt users always left me in awe. Since starting Felt, I’ve always considered it a tool for teams, but the team and I needed some time to understand our users better to deliver on the promise of a truly collaborative mapping tool. That’s why I’m excited to share a huge milestone with you: Felt is finally out of beta and we’re doubling down on collaborative features. With Felt 1.0 comes a whole new suite of tools for sophisticated groups and organizations, such as Teams, Team Libraries, and new features for professionals. Our biggest new feature, Teams, lets you define a team, and assign editing or viewing permissions to each member. You can move maps between your personal drafts and the shared team space, create folders to organize your team's maps, and join and collaborate across multiple teams. In addition to Teams, we're also launching a broad set of new features for professionals, including a new rendering engine, a new list view, and more. We're offering these features for free for the first year to learn how people use them and to ensure our pricing matches people's needs. Our plan has always been to offer a free tier of Felt for personal use alongside paid tiers for professional teams. Starting in 2024, Teams and related features will be available only to paying customers. Join the hundreds of map makers in the Felt community and create a team today! If you have any questions about the product, our recent updates, or design process, share them below and I'll do my best to answer! I’ll really appreciate your feedback as well! Sam

Proud of this one! If anyone has questions about the design process going in to Felt, add them as a reply.

We are super, super-duper, super-duper-grouper excited go launch this version of Felt to you all. This has been a long time in the making by probably the most talented congregation of people. Looking forward to hearing all your feedback and support.

I feel really lucky to have joined the team at Felt in time to get in on the "1.0" release -- in truth Felt had already developed a lot of maturity in its beta phase, but this still feels like a big deal. Just echoing some other posts from developers here, the team has both incredible velocity and incredible camaraderie.

I've been working at Felt for over a year now but I am constantly amazed at the things people do with it. Seeing teams collaborate in real-time and using every single piece of the product to create beautiful maps in a couple of clicks, will never get old

It's been awesome to see how quickly new features get added to Felt, and how seriously the team takes user-reported feature requests and issues. And the maps our users are making in Felt are the most beautiful maps I've ever seen!

The team behind Felt is an incredibly talented group of people. If you haven't used Felt yet, you're missing out.

Team support has been a really cool project to work on. Collaboration has been at the heart of Felt since the beginning, and I’m excited to see how this enables new workflows for people.

Felt has become an invaluable tool in our toolbox for working with communities, stakeholders, and project teams. The ability to quickly upload data from a variety of sources allows our team to better engage those involved in the planning and design process and having a simple way for community members to draw, upload photos and comment on maps helps us gather more information faster than any other tool we've used before. Excited about the new improvements released today! Thanks to the Felt team and congrats on the hard work getting to 1.0.

I am the Head of Business Development at a company building a constellation of satellites that will collect high-resolution optical and thermal imagery. Felt has been an incredibly useful tool for customer calls, helping me better understand their use cases, areas of interest, and providing visual examples of how our system collects data. It has also greatly streamlined several internal workflows, saving me many hours each week. My favorite feature is the clipping tool. It lets me quickly find, adjust, and export polygons as geojson files. I also love that if a customer sends me a GeoJSON file with polygons, I can upload the file and choose the option to make the polygons editable elements, instead of the file being a non-editable layer. As someone new to GIS, all of these seemingly little details have made an enormous difference for me, and on the whole, Felt's straightforward and easy to use interface has made it inviting to learn more about mapping and incorporate geospatial data into analysis or visual storytelling. Customers both new to satellite imagery and GIS experts have enjoyed learning about Felt and provided positive feedback during calls if they haven't used it yet. So grateful for this amazing tool and the Felt team, who have done a fantastic job supporting any questions I may have. Can't wait to see all that's to come!

So proud of team Felt and all our amazing community members! When I joined Felt last year, I was so impressed by our users' creativity: they mapped famous expeditions to teach history, dove deep into manufacturing trends around the world to report on them for their Substack publications, worked with their neighbors and friends to improve biking infrastructure in their city... the list goes on and on. Super curious to see how PH community will put Felt maps to work!

Felt is such an exciting step forward in making maps on the internet! It has been amazing to watch our users create a whole new class of maps that have brought the fun back into map-making!

Felt is an amazing place to work at, because of the great product we are building, and because of the all around amazing people working on it. I'm really excited to see what people build with it!

Incredible pace of development – amazing to watch teams that work with maps finally access the benefits of a modern collaborative workflow.

I have really enjoyed using Felt over the last couple of months. They have created something special - a mapping tool that works just like you'd hoped! It's intuitive and easy to create simple or complex maps - and even better, it's super easy to share them! The team has also been super responsive to questions, comments, and feedback. Seems like a really great team! I look forward to seeing the product evolve!

As an avid map maker, Felt has become my go to tool for creating quick, beautiful, interactive maps. What stands out to me is the ease of dropping in data with the "upload anything" tool to quickly add... anything to your map. Additionally, Felt offers numerous ways to customize your map (basemap, color schemes, etc) which allows you to very simply change the look and feel of your map. I always look forward to seeing what fun and creative maps are produced by the Felt community!

continue to be amazed by your pace of product iteration. a great day for the teams already using felt, and for those who now realize felt's for them!!

I've been working at Felt for over a year now and I'm super impressed at what we've been able to build in that time. I like how Felt truly makes it possible for just about anyone to create a great looking map, and there's an unimaginable amount of work that goes into it, especially in building a basemap that will look good in so many different scenarios. I'm super excited to open up our new Teams functionality which allows people to collaborate on maps together in a very easy way without needing to add people to each individual map.