🚢 Shipnotes
Changelog, public roadmap and feature-request voting — self-hosted, one-time price.
Shipnotes at a glance
| Price | $129, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Canny at $79/mo — roughly $948 a year, every year |
| Type | Web app — self-hosted |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Utilities |
Shipnotes features
📰 Public changelog
Write posts in Markdown, tag them New / Improved / Fixed, publish with one click. Valid RSS 2.0 feed included.
🗺️ Public roadmap board
Planned / In Progress / Shipped columns, sorted by votes, so users can see where things stand.
💡 Feature requests + voting
Visitors submit ideas and upvote — one vote per visitor, no account or signup wall — with comment threads.
🛡️ Moderation that scales
Approve, decline with a public reason, or merge duplicates — votes carry over and are deduped.
📧 Email subscribers
Bring your own SMTP; publishing a post emails every subscriber with one-click unsubscribe.
🔔 Embeddable "What's new" widget
One script tag adds a bell with an unread badge and a dropdown of your latest posts to any site.
🎛️ Fast admin dashboard
Dark, keyboard-friendly — posts, requests, subscribers and settings in one place.
💾 One SQLite file
Trivial backups, no external services, zero telemetry.
$129 once — that's the whole pricing page
Canny charges $79/mo — roughly $948 a year, every year. Shipnotes is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Shipnotes inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Shipnotes guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/changelog-roadmap-mvp. $129 buys the packaged version, 1-click setup and updates.
Do voters need accounts?
No — and that's deliberate. Canny puts votes behind a signup wall; Shipnotes uses a per-visitor token (one vote each, repeat votes rejected server-side). Lower friction means you hear from far more of your users.
What doesn't it have vs Canny?
Honestly: no Jira/Slack/Intercom integrations, no user segmentation or revenue-weighted prioritization, no SSO-identified voters. Shipnotes is the core loop — changelog, roadmap, voting, email — done well. If your PM team lives in Canny's integrations, Canny earns its price.