Changelog, public roadmap and feature-request voting — self-hosted, one-time price.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Canny, at $79/mo — roughly $948 a year, every year. Shipnotes does the job for a one-time $129 — running on infrastructure you control.
Write posts in Markdown, tag them New / Improved / Fixed, publish with one click. Valid RSS 2.0 feed included.
For freelancers, public changelog pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $129, not metered per month.
Planned / In Progress / Shipped columns, sorted by votes, so users can see where things stand.
For freelancers, public roadmap board pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $129, not metered per month.
Visitors submit ideas and upvote — one vote per visitor, no account or signup wall — with comment threads.
For freelancers, feature requests + voting pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $129, not metered per month.
One-time $129 for the packaged version with updates and setup support.
docker compose up -d on a $5 VPS for a public changelog at updates.yourapp.com — or run desktop mode to try it first.
Write a Markdown post, tag it, publish — subscribers get emailed, the widget badge lights up, and feature requests collect votes while you sleep.
Shipnotes is $129, once. Canny at $79/mo — roughly $948 a year, every year. Canny costs $79 every month. Shipnotes pays for itself in about 7 weeks — then your changelog is free for the life of your product.
Canny costs $79 every month. Shipnotes pays for itself in about 7 weeks — then your changelog is free for the life of your product. Shipnotes costs $129 once; Canny charges $79/mo — about $948 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/changelog-roadmap-mvp. $129 buys the packaged version, 1-click setup and updates.
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.