Changelog

The public board got a little facelift and is now localised!

The public board is the most important place for you to get your feedback. So we made it even better

It got a slightly new look with a lot of changes below the hood.

Features are now truncated better, so that long features don't take up to much space.
For every feature (comments enabled or not) you can now tap the title and jump into a detail page where the full text is shown.
Also... it shows you other voters! This is a group effort after all.
Very large vote counts are handled better and shortened accordingly.
The public board can now also be localised! Starting with German 🇩🇪, the UI on the public board is now localised to feel more at home. It's automatic, but you can also force a certain locale.

Other fixes & improvements 🐞

The font size of the entire app has been tweaked slightly. More space now everywhere!
Invitations for Admins can now be sent again.
You can see and filter by visibility of features in the dashboard.

over 1 year ago

No-Code Board Access

Create public board access-links for your users right from the Dashboard

The best way to get feedback from your users is to integrate the public board into your app. But sometimes you just want to get a quick session started - or get feedback from a user who has no access to your app. Now you can create no-code access link right in the dashboard. Here's how it works:

Go to the user (any user) you want to give instant access to the public board
Click 'Access Link' in the top toolbar
Copy the created link and share it with the user (e.g. via email or messages). Or create a QR code for the user to scan directly, or share as an image.
Once the user visits that link, they are automatically logged in to the public board and can leave suggestions, or vote, or comment. And of course all feedback will be attributed directly to them.

Access Links are available to every FeatureCat admin on every plan.

Other fixes & improvements 🐞

- A new onboarding flow. Now also with confetti! 🎊
- The sidebar was streamlined a bit and made a bit simpler

over 1 year ago

Export Nation

You can now export data directly from the dashboard!

You'll find a brand new "Export" button on the top right of the Features, Artifacts, and Users list view. And that lets you export data right into a CSV.

Get exportin'. 💾

Other fixes & improvements 🐞

Quick add bar: click the (+) in the navbar to quickly add a new feature, artifact or user.
Linking artifacts to features has been revamped with an inline search and is now a lot quicker than before.
Banner notifications (or "toasts") now show up at the bottom in a dismissible widget instead of taking up space at the top.
The toolbar on the feature, artifact and user page has been cleaned up and some functionality has been moved to the overflow ellipsis on the right.
Creating e.g. a new feature now no longer opens a modal but a quicker inline form instead.

over 1 year ago

Voting on behalf

Be a mean voting machine for your users.

FeatureCat has always supported users voting directly on the public board. But sometimes a request may come in via email, in a call, in a chat session, or - if you're outgoing enough - meeting a user directly in person.

Now admins can vote on behalf of their users directly in the dashboard. (And you can now also delete votes).

Happy voting! ✅ 🗳️

over 1 year ago

Track feedback for all of your users

Create and manage users in the dashboard.

A core differentiation for FeatureCat has always been the simple and straightforward integration of user authentication. With that, users are created, logged in, and tracked automatically, each time they visit the public board and leave feedback.

That however excluded other users who provide feedback and influence the product direction, but are not direct users of your product (just yet). Those might be prospects, internal stakeholders, or others.

FeatureCat now supports creating users directly in the dashboard to cover these cases. You can now also add an internal note to users to provide more context for you and team members.

Adding users directly in the dashboard is supported on all plans, but may be subject to user limits. Give it a try!

Creating a new user directly in the dashboard.

over 1 year ago

Detailed Feature Documentation

Introducing the Brief: write up a full feature document right inside of FeatureCat.

When you're capturing feedback from users, and create the first title and description of a feature for users to vote and comment on, inevitably you'll get to a critical point: you need more detail.

You'll have to start drafting the actual requirements, consider edge cases, and plan out how the feature works. Previously you would have had to jump out of FeatureCat - into Google Docs, Notion, or whatever document management tool you are using.

But now, you can do that right in FeatureCat. Add bullets, embed code, insert images. It's all right there, without jumping between apps. You can write pages and pages, and even flesh out a full PRD.

And there's a lot more coming. ✨ Give it a try today!

The brief is only available on paid plans of FeatureCat.

almost 2 years ago

What's your email?

A few improvements for user handling.

Two small updates shipped recently:

You can now capture a user's email address while they submit suggestions on the public board. Depending on whether you already have provided the email address during Authentication, you can choose to (optionally) require the email address. As always, you can find more in our docs.
The user list in the dashboard is now searchable. You can filter users by name, email, or the identifier you provided.

over 2 years ago

Introducing the changelog

Closing the loop: actually tell your users what you ship. [Closed Beta]

FeatureCat was always about the entire journey from artifact (requirement) to shipped feature. Now we're closing the loop with the Changelog, an easy way for you to share product updates with your users.

Every product has a public feed to which you can share what's new with your product, other updates, or really whatever you want. And just as with the public board, the changelog is super easy to embed in your app - but more on that coming soon.

You can already attach images, format them to your liking, just like you would with any other blog post.

Writing this very post from the dashboard.

The changelog is still in private beta, but let us know if you're interested. As always, we love your feedback.

We have lots of things planned, like integration with the public board, linking of released features to changelog posts, notifications of users, RSS/Atom feeds. Lots more to come!

over 2 years ago

What's the status?

Show your features' status on the public board.

Sometimes it's the little things.

FeatureCat can now show the status of your features on the public board!

over 2 years ago

Full Color

Customise the public board to your liking - you can even paint it black.

FeatureCat's public board was always customisable, so you could make it fit right into your app. But now we've cranked to to 11.

Full control over the color scheme: The public board can either adapt to the device's color scheme (light or dark), or be locked to one theme specifically. This is super useful when using the public board in embedded mode, and your app is only supporting one mode.
Separate colors for the public board's header and background, for both light and dark mode.
Adaptive text display to match the background color.

over 2 years ago