A self-hosted feedback board and public roadmap on your own box.
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 $50+/mo — roughly $600 a year, every year. Voicebox does the job for a one-time $34 — running on infrastructure you control.
Anyone submits ideas and upvotes with one vote per visitor, plus comment threads on every idea.
For freelancers, public board pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
Per-IP rate limits on submissions, votes and comments, with vote dedupe enforced by a database UNIQUE constraint.
For freelancers, spam defense built in pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
Open, planned, in progress, shipped and declined-with-reason, with illegal jumps rejected so the roadmap stays true.
For freelancers, status workflow pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
One payment of $34 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/feedback-roadmap-voting-mvp and run it free.
Use desktop mode to try it, or deploy with docker compose up -d when you need the board public.
Point users at the board homepage or drop the embeddable widget into your app, then set statuses to build the roadmap.
Voicebox is $34, once. Canny at $50+/mo — roughly $600 a year, every year. Voicebox costs less than one month of Canny once, and never asks for another dollar as your voter count grows.
Voicebox costs less than one month of Canny once, and never asks for another dollar as your voter count grows. Voicebox costs $34 once; Canny charges $50+/mo — about $600 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — Voicebox is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/feedback-roadmap-voting-mvp. The $34 buys the packaged Windows installer with no Node and no terminal; running from source is free.
In your own SQLite file on your box. There are no accounts required for voters and no telemetry — nothing goes to anyone else's cloud.