Hi all hunters and makers! 👋 We are so excited to share with you a major update to productboard. Today, we are introducing productboard Portal 🎉 - a whole new way for product makers to connect with their customers and validate and collect feature ideas, share what’s planned, and celebrate product progress. You know, I am a bit of an idealist. Purpose matters to me. So I want to say that we started productboard couple years back because we felt that static spreadsheets, stale slides, long, disorganized feature backlogs, and disconnected feature request forums were just terrible tools for product makers who really care about creating something wonderful, something excellent. You know, not the mediocre, feature-bloated stuff, but products where everything has its place and purpose, where every little feature and interaction delights you, where you just know that whoever made them, really understood you and took the time to make something that matters to you deeply. We saw an opportunity in making a product that would connect deep customer insights directly to feature ideas; a product where you could then organize all your ideas, score them against important product criteria, and make sure that the features you choose to prioritize and put on your roadmap, are the absolutely best ones given your strategic objectives. We felt that all of us, product makers, deserve better and so we made productboard. Today, at the time when productboard helps over 600 product teams make excellent products, we are launching the Portal because we heard from so many of you that getting the pulse of your customers is more important than ever. We heard and observed that having a channel that helps you collect customer insights at scale and at the same allows you to keep your product community engaged, is priceless. The Portal is available as part of our early access program to all our free trial users and customers. We also have a $100 coupon for all you hunters here, check out the product screenshots section. Give productboard and the Portal a try and let us know what you think. Or submit your suggestions directly to our very own portal! https://portal.productboard.com/pb Thank you!!! Hubert

We've been using productboard to build our MVP and it helped us to get everybody on the team on board with what we're building and kept us focused. I love that productboard helped us also gather feedback from different sources (Intercom, emails and various conversations) so now we're processing the user feedback and planning our next product improvements - all in one tool. That's just the best!

Pros:

Best for connecting user feedback and product features. I love the intercom & trello integration!

Cons:

We love using them for our product, never found anything similar.

Looks great guys! Well done. Do you have an API?

Productboard led to the death of spreadsheets and emails at our company when it came to product management. I've become a true fan of this solution and the great way it solves such a painful problem. Before adopting we played with Aha! who are a competitor, Productboard blew them out the water as far as I am concerned. Love it.

Pros:

Clean UI, focus on solving the core problems, great team who listen

Cons:

Rich formatting of text would be nice but I know the team are working on it

Congrats on the launch! I love the design and your product looks great. 🎉

Wow product, for real. I didn't remember last time when a product was so natural in use and so perfectly solves the need. You feel how a team crafted each details and each feature. Great job! And I could not name any close substitute.

Pros:

Simple and very clear tool to cover the PM job cycle: Collect ideas > Set priority > Put into roadmap > Track progress

Cons:

Nothing.

We've been using ProductBoard for just over a year and it's made a major difference to how we have designed and developed the MVPs and started the pilot process. Including research in the same space is great and the new portal will help massively

Pros:

Great UI, simple and intuitive, clearly laid out, updated regularly, great support - fast and helpful, and open to new ideas

Cons:

Perhaps more integrations?

Productboard has eliminated all of my spreadsheets, decks and docs recording user research and put them in a actionable process. It's then removed my feature lists in asana and once again put them into a actionable process. If you manage a product - it's a must! 😇

Pros:

The ability to link research directly to features which helps prioritse what to work on next is incredible.

Cons:

Nothing yet. Any little bugs I find their support are straight on it!

Congrats! Slick design. Hope you're gonna hit all the goals for the next year :).

Wow! Looks amazing!

Configurations on an amazing launch, the new Portal looks super sweet - cannot wait to start using it. An open API would definitely allow your product to grow even faster!

Great tool overall

Pros:

Great UX, cool support, nice roles

Cons:

a bit laggy when you have a lot of data

I have been using the app for 3-4 months now and want to say it’s tailor made for product managers and owners. Productboard is an awesome app!!!

Fantastic stuff, looks great 👍 surely will try it soon 👏

I've tried everything on the market and ProductBoard is the ONLY one that has stuck. I live in it every day. I've got Zapier zaps sucking in feedback from all over the place, and now with the Feedback Portal they unveiled, I'm able to provide transparency internally without frying non-dev non-designers minds with making them go into Jira (or even Trello I've found is TMI/confusing for people).

Pros:

Best way to ingest customer feedback and map it to features/roadmap.

Cons:

I wish I had the ability to spin up multiple instances of the Feedback Portal (internally facing & public/user facing)

We build and grow www.yumpu.com with Productboard - Thank you!

Pros:

Best in product development

Cons:

No cons for today - we love the new version 2.0

We're BIG productboard fans at doopoll. Great to see the product develop, and become more streamlined.

jared is that you?

Congratulations Hubert! Love the product .. have been using it for a few months now and had a few feature requests which were addressed. The addition of the portal is a great move and something I was thinking I needed for my service only this week so will be checking it out.

One of my favorite apps in my toolkit.

Pros:

Clean, minimal but highly effective, intercom integration is killer. Transformed our product planning process.

Cons:

No way to manage multiple roadmaps, all products must exist on one "board"