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• The Marketplace For Product Feedback

• The Backlog Support Group

Your Best PMs Don't Work For You

The One Liner

The platform that turns scattered feature requests into a structured, incentivized marketplace where users earn rewards for shaping the roadmap.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

Your best product ideas come from users you ignore. Build the marketplace where they submit, upvote, and get paid when their ideas ship.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem

Companies collect product feedback in eleven places and turn it into product decisions in zero.

Slack threads. Support tickets. NPS responses. Sales call notes. Random emails to the founder. Discord channels. Twitter mentions. Customer success Looms. Beta forms. Linear comments. The CEO's mom.

None of it turns cleanly into a roadmap.

Feature requests pile up in a Notion doc no one opens. PMs guess what matters. The same request gets submitted 47 times by 47 different users and the team treats each one like it's new.

And the people giving the best ideas, the power users who actually understand the product better than your engineers do, get nothing back. No ownership. No upside. No reason to keep showing up.

So the best feedback never compounds.

The Solution

Turn product feedback into a structured, incentivized marketplace.

Not a suggestion box. A leaderboard.

• Users submit ideas in plain English

• Other users upvote, refine, and build on them

• AI clusters duplicates, scores impact, and turns top requests into product-ready specs

• When a feature ships, the contributors who shaped it get rewarded with points, perks, status, even revenue share

• The roadmap is public. Status is transparent. Power users become external product managers, and the best ones rise to the top

Think Stack Exchange plus HackerOne plus Discourse, built specifically for product feedback, with a rewards layer that makes it actually worth participating.

How We'd Build It

Phase 1: One wedge, one channel.

• Pick the cleanest entry point first: B2B SaaS tools with active communities (think the audiences around Linear, PostHog, Cal.com, Vercel)

• Layer onto where users already talk: pull feedback automatically from Slack and Discord channels using their APIs

• Build the upvote board in Lovable or Bolt in a weekend, one screen, one job

• Use Tally or Typeform to capture early feedback before the platform is even live

• AI clustering for duplicate requests with OpenAI or Anthropic embeddings, no model training needed

• Public roadmap board shipped fast on Linear's public roadmap feature, then customized later

Phase 2: From feedback board to product input layer.

• Auto-generate product spec docs from clustered requests using a structured prompt pipeline

• Two-way sync with Linear, Jira, and Shortcut so engineers see real signal instead of Slack screenshots

• Build a points and badges layer, with monetary rewards handled through Stripe and recurring perks billed via RevenueCat

• Live community sessions on Whop where power users debate priorities with the actual product team

• Real-time spec collaboration through Liveblocks so multiple users can shape an idea before it ships

• Analytics on which users predict winners best, tracked in PostHog and surfaced as a leaderboard

Phase 3: The rewards layer that compounds.

• Tiered rewards tied to shipped features: free credit, swag, paid plan access, eventually real revenue share for top contributors

• A power user marketplace where companies bid for access to the most credible product thinkers in their category

• Multi-company badges that travel with the user, like Stack Overflow rep, but for shipping product

• Enterprise tier with private boards, custom rewards, and SLAs around feedback-to-roadmap turnaround

• Open API so AI agents can submit feedback on behalf of teams and pipe results back into product workflows

Why It Needs To Exist

The product roadmap is one of the last places in software still built by guessing.

Companies have AI for support, AI for sales, AI for marketing. Product decisions are still made by a PM in a room squinting at a Notion doc.

Meanwhile the audience has changed. Users don't just want to use products anymore. They want to shape them. They've watched indie hackers build live on Twitter. They've seen open source projects vote on roadmaps. They expect a seat at the table.

The company that wins this category doesn't just build a better feedback tool. It builds the system that turns user attention into product compounding.

That category doesn't have a winner yet.

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The Backlog Support Group

Picture this. A dimly lit Zoom room. Three feature requests sit in a circle. None of them have shipped. None of them know why.

Dark Mode speaks first. "It's been 19 months. They keep saying it's on the roadmap. The roadmap has 47 things on it. I'm thing 38."

Multi-Select Filter clears its throat. "I was submitted by 312 different users. Three hundred and twelve. Across seven channels. The PM still typed 'is anyone actually asking for this' in the Slack thread last Tuesday."

SSO For The Free Tier stares at the floor. "They put me in 'maybe Q3 of 2027.' Nobody knows what year we're in inside the doc."

A new face logs in. Inline Editing. "Hi. I just got submitted yesterday."

Dark Mode sighs. "Bless your heart."

Multi-Select Filter offers a thin smile. "Get comfortable."

Inline Editing shifts uncomfortably. "They also said something about 'we should really build a feedback platform that actually structures all this and rewards the users who flag the most important things.'"

Dark Mode snorts. "They've been saying that for two years. They'll build it themselves. In Notion. With a tag system. It will not work."

SSO For The Free Tier finally looks up. "Has anyone heard from Bulk Export?"

The room goes quiet.

Multi-Select Filter mumbles. "Marked 'won't fix' last March."

A long silence.

Dark Mode stands up. "Look. The thing is. There are users out there who would tell them exactly which of us to ship first. Real users. Power users. People who actually use the product every day."

Inline Editing perks up. "So what's the problem?"

Dark Mode shrugs. "Nobody pays them. Nobody listens to them. Nobody gives them a seat at the table. So they stop showing up. And we stop shipping. And here we are."

SSO For The Free Tier looks at the camera. "It's not the users. It's the system."

Multi-Select Filter nods slowly. "Someone should fix that."

Inline Editing looks at the others. "...should we?"

The Zoom call ends.

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