Votera

Your own feedback board, public roadmap, and changelog — unlimited voters, no per-user monthly bill.

The problem it solves

Every product needs a place for customers to suggest ideas, vote on them, and see what's shipping. The hosted tools that do this bill as you grow: Canny by tracked users, Featurebase by admin seat. On Canny, every new voter counts toward the next price step — exactly as your roadmap succeeds. The dated figures are on the comparison page.

You also hand those tools your customers' emails and your roadmap data, on their servers, for as long as you keep paying.

Every feature

• "Email me when this ships". A voter can leave their address on one idea and be told once, when it ships — unique per idea and address, rate-limited, one-click unsubscribe, and never used for anything else. Marking an idea shipped is what sends it.
• Feedback boards with voting. Customers post ideas and upvote them with no signup wall — one vote per browser, kept honest by a UNIQUE database constraint on the anonymous voter key. Sort by Top, Trending, or New.
• Public roadmap. A clean Kanban of your own statuses — Under review, Planned, In progress, Shipped — so people see where their idea stands.
• Changelog. Publish what you ship with New / Improved / Fixed tags, and link each entry back to the request it resolves.
• Comments & moderation. Public discussion per idea, staff replies, and admin-only internal notes. Pin, set status, merge, or delete from one console. Optional email-verified voting, a per-IP vote rate limit and a vote-velocity panel keep the counts honest.
• Embeddable widget. Drop the board into your app or marketing site with a single script tag.
• Your brand, unlimited everything. Set the name, tagline, and accent color. Unlimited ideas, voters, and boards — one-time purchase, self-hosted, no subscription.
• Installable mobile app (PWA). Add it to a phone or tablet home screen straight from the browser — a full-screen app served from your own server, with no app store involved. Business data is not stored offline on the device; what you see is read live.
• Know who voted. Your app signs its users in to the board with a signed token, so a vote carries who asked, their plan and their monthly value. Sort ideas by paying customers or by the revenue behind them. Anonymous voting stays the default.
• The ship loop. Link an idea to its GitHub, GitLab, Linear or Jira issues. When they are done, the idea moves to Shipped, followers get the email and a changelog draft waits for you. No tracker tokens stored.
• Your CRM's knowledge, next to who asked. Import contacts from HubSpot, Salesforce or any CRM (or let an automation send them) and sort ideas by the revenue behind them. No CRM login stored.
• Your board in five languages. English, French, German, Spanish or Polish for your visitors; what they write stays as written, nothing goes to a translation service.
• Custom fields, on ideas and on voters. Tag ideas with your own fields, and see what your enterprise customers ask for from the facts your app sends.
• Duplicates, spotted on your server. Visitors see similar ideas as they type, and your team gets a duplicates queue and a one-click merge that keeps every vote once. No cloud AI.
• Private boards, included. Keep a board for your team, or for customers your app signs in (all of them, or chosen plans). Everyone else sees nothing of it.
• Hold new ideas for review. Tick one box and an idea from the public waits until you approve it: nobody else sees it, votes on it or finds it until then, and the person who wrote it is told so. Your team's own ideas go straight up.
• Vote from Slack. Add a slash command to a Slack app of your own and your team lists the top ideas and votes without leaving Slack. Only public boards are shown, and each request is checked against your app's signing secret.
• Updates from inside the app. The Updates page installs a new release with your license key: Ownware's signature is checked, a backup is taken first, and the app puts the previous version back by itself if the update is interrupted or the database step or start-up check of the new version fails. It never checks by itself.
• Backups by themselves. Automatic backups, an optional copy to S3-compatible storage you own, and a weekly check that the latest backup reads back. The Health page names anything that needs attention.
• Own It 4.0.1 — fixes and an up-to-date manual. For Votera, 4.0.1 fixes an installer that had lost its styling, a rollback that a page opened during an update could stop and a command-line update that ended in an error after putting the previous version back. Its manual, FAQ and QUICKSTART now cover everything 4.0 added, including two Nginx rules that keep the data folder private. Your license covers it: press Check for updates on the Updates page, or download it from your order page.
• Own It 4.0.2 — the installer opens on every host. For Votera, 4.0.2 fixes a fresh install on an Apache host: the one-page setup at /install/ looped back to itself and never opened, and now it opens. Your license covers it: press Check for updates on the Updates page, or download it from your order page.

Release notes in full

• Own It 4.1: client installations and your other tools. For Votera, 4.1 makes two changes that every app gets. An Extended license bought from October 4, 2026 covers up to ten client installations, one per client project: hand each one over to the client or host it for them, with the client's logo and colors from the app's branding settings. The API reference now shows how to connect Votera to Zapier, Make or n8n, using its own webhooks and API key. Your license covers the update: press Check for updates on the Updates page, or download it from your order page.
• Own It 4.0: it updates and backs itself up. For Votera, 4.0 means updates from inside the app: the Updates page checks for a new release with your license key, verifies Ownware's signature, takes a backup and puts the previous version back by itself if the update is interrupted or the database step or start-up check of the new version fails. A new install can start with a sample business and remove it in one click; backups run by themselves, with an optional offsite copy and a weekly check that the latest one reads back; and the Health page says whether the install is looking after itself.
• Own It 3.3: you see new ideas first. For Votera, 3.3 lets you hold new ideas from the public for review: nobody else sees an idea, votes on it or finds it until you approve it, and your team's own ideas go straight up. The posts import preview now checks each row as the import will.
• Own It 3.2: know who voted. For Votera, 3.2 put names and plans behind the votes: your own app signs voters in, and your CRM's data sits next to who asked. Ideas ship when their linked issues close, duplicates are spotted on your own server, boards can be private, the public board speaks five languages, and your team can vote from Slack.
• Own It 3.1: it writes to the people you serve. The 3.1 wave gave the catalog a way to reach the other side of the transaction: counterparty email through your own SMTP server, calendar feeds your own calendar subscribes to, attachments filed where the paperwork belongs, and export presets other people's software imports. Each outbound feature ships switched off and runs on your own credentials; a failed send is recorded, and the action that triggered it stands. What this app gained is listed at the top of this section.
• Own It 3.0: works for your AI, not just for you. Verified voting closes the loophole: with verification on, a vote is held until a link sent to that address is clicked — proving someone there voted without ever recording which way, because the confirmation lands on the same salted hash the vote uses. Agents read the board over MCP under the same rules.
• Own It 2.0: API, 2FA, backups, dark mode. Votera 2.0 adds the 2.0 owner layer. Upgrade by replacing the files — the database migrates itself, and it is still the same one-time purchase.