[tpetry]

Interestingly there is no product on the markt to collect feature ideas and classify them. Kanban boards etc. Are nice, but if you store many ideas you will completely lose focus.

Ideas, which may or may not be implemented one day have so many dimensions: time required to build it, dependencies which must be built first, usefullness in several aspects, module the software needs to be implemented in and interacts with.

The best i have yet seen was a good crafted excel/airtable with a lot of columns. But deciding which one to build was again not easy as you could not see dependency chains etc.

[penguinsonmars]

A couple of solutions seem to try to address this: productboard, ProductPlan, airfocus... There are a couple of more tools to manage feature requests and communicate with customers around them.

I'm also curious to see how these tools will evolve. I haven't used any of them, but from an external POV Productboard seems to have the strongest focus on managing customer feedback and generating product insights, rather than just building and communicating a roadmap.

[kareemm]

> Interestingly there is no product on the markt to collect feature ideas and classify them.

As a dev who's been on HN since 2008, I'd be remiss not to "market more" and plug what I've been working on here! I started Savio (https://www.savio.io) specifically to help B2B SaaS teams collect and classify customer feature requests to help inform prioritization.

It was a pain I've felt for over a decade. So after we sold our last company, one of my co-founders and I decided to solve this problem once and for all.

Here's a guide I wrote that lays out everything me and my co-founder know about tracking and using customer feature requests to drive prioritization (we have 40+ combined years of experience PMing and coding at co's like Microsoft, ESPN, 7 startups, and about a dozen consulting clients).

https://www.savio.io/blog/how-to-track-customer-feedback/

[polote]

That's exactly what https://www.productboard.com/ does.

I doubt that this will help you deciding what to build though

[penguinsonmars]

I listened to a podcast with the founder recently and it sounds like they are trying to go more into that direction, which would be a key differentiator if they manage to do it (rather than just providing a tool to manage feedback/build roadmaps). In terms of "deciding what to build", user research tools such as https://dovetailapp.com/ and https://consider.ly/ might be interesting as well. They are just not positioning themselves towards Product Managers (yet).

[j45]

Aha.io might surprise you

[trastentrasten]

Check out featmap.com, it's a user story mapping tool.