Votelane

The problem

Feature requests arrive everywhere except one place — email threads, DMs, a Discord channel nobody scrolls back through, a spreadsheet that goes stale in a week. You end up guessing what people actually want, and the people who asked never learn whether you heard them. The tools that fix this either cost enterprise money or force every visitor to create an account before they can say a single word.

The solution

Votelane gives a product a public board for feature requests, a roadmap that stays honest, and a changelog that closes the loop. Each board lives on its own subdomain (yourproduct.votelane.app) or your custom domain. Visitors need nothing but an email address — no password, no app, no signup funnel.

How it works

1. Create a board — pick an alias, it's live on its own subdomain in a minute
2. Collect requests — visitors post and upvote; one confirmed email is one vote, no ballot stuffing from a fresh incognito window
3. Move things across the roadmap — planned → in progress → done, and the public roadmap updates itself
4. Ship a release — attach the requests it delivered, and everyone who asked sees where their idea landed

Key features

• Voting that means something — one vote per confirmed email; requests sort themselves by real demand
• An email is the whole signup — click the link in your inbox and that device stays signed in for a year, so every vote after the first is one tap
• Public roadmap — statuses on the board drive a roadmap page nobody has to maintain by hand
• Changelog that closes the loop — releases link back to the requests they delivered
• Private bug reports — same box takes bugs, but those go to the owner only and never appear publicly
• Full moderation — set statuses, pin, rename, hide noise, and leave an official team note on any request
• Your own domain — run a board on a custom domain instead of the votelane.app subdomain
• Multi-tenant by design — one account, many products, each board fully isolated

Current status

Live at votelane.app — boards, voting, roadmap, releases, bug reports, custom domains and billing all shipped. 7 days free, no card. Now iterating on the parts that only real boards expose.