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Making Great Software

How to avoid creating “death of a thousand cuts” software | 5-minute video

You know that software you regularly use, but it is just so painful? The rough edges, the weird messages, the unexpected behaviour?

No-one sets out to make software like this. But it happens – all too often.

In this video, I share six things you can to to avoid your product becoming a painful experience. Follow these, and your customers won’t have to endure a “death of a thousand cuts” user experience.

Making Great Software

How SaaS teams really prioritize features?

In theory, we use sophisticated frameworks to choose what to build next.

In reality, many product teams are using these somewhat less-sophisticated approaches. Not you of course, and not us. Oh no, just those other dysfunctional product teams!

Our Story

Why we (kind of) deleted our backlog

Well, not exactly “deleted”; we’ve archived the backlog for future reference. Only our team has access to the archive, so the feature requests it contains are effectively deleted for the people who suggested and voted on them.

We then re-seeded our feedback board with the feature requests we’re most likely to implement in coming months.

Product Updates

Contributors can now tag their suggestions

If you have created some tags for your Feature Upvote board, you can now let contributors (i.e. your customers) choose tags to add to their suggestions. If you’d like contributors to be able to tag suggestions, you can enable this in your board’s permissions, as follows: Once you’ve done this, the “Add suggestion” form on […]

Product Updates

Two ways to export your Feature Upvote data

There are now two ways you can get your data out of Feature Upvote in a form suitable for getting it into whatever other tool you’re using, such as a spreadsheet. First, there’s the full data export. This has been available for a long time. In your board settings, you have an option called Export, […]

Product Updates

Add private notes to suggestions

When viewing a suggestion as a moderator or admin, you can add a private note. This is a free-form field to add any notes you want about the suggestion. It is only be visible to moderators and admins.

Making Great Software

5 communities to help product managers

We love reading newsletters and blogs, but there’s nothing quite like belonging to a community to make you feel better about yourself and your job! There’s other people out there, like you, who can help you and who you, in turn, can help right back.

Making Great Software

Does your SaaS really need new features?

The pressure to release new features for your software product can be considerable, particularly considering you’re probably deploying changes to your site daily, if not hourly. However, in this article we look at what you might do instead, with better results for your company.